Opening the lid on the fierce arguments and clashes of personalities between Europe’s leaders, as they struggled with crises which could have torn the union apart. The latest political box-set from Brook Lapping and acclaimed series producer Norma Percy.
SERIES INFO Genre: Documentary Special Interest Stars: - Series Plot: Opening the lid on the fierce arguments and clashes of personalities between Europe’s leaders, as they struggled with crises which could have torn the union apart.
The latest political box-set from Brook Lapping and acclaimed series producer Norma Percy. In the unique Brook Lapping style, these stories are told by those who were in the room when the key decisions were taken.
For the first time, Europe’s Presidents and Prime Ministers and their closest advisers take us back behind closed doors, where they battled night after night to keep the European Union together. The series shows leaders such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Council President Donald Tusk not just as politicians, but passionate people trying to defend their project and their countries - with all the contradictions that involved.
- How David Cameron promised a referendum, and his attempts to get a new deal on immigration from Europe in order to win it.
- How the Greek financial crisis threatened to spread and destroy not just the Euro, but the world economy. And how the medicine prescribed by the EU increased populism - of both right and left.
- How the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the summer of 2015 put the European project in peril, as the member states disagreed over the solution.
EPISODE INFO Title: Unstoppable Airdate: 2019-02-11 Episode plot: This episode exposes how Europe’s leaders fought over how to deal with the migration crisis that reached its peak in the summer of 2015.
As hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants arrive from North Africa and Syria, Europe divides. The decision by chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful leader, to keep Germany's borders open tests the fundamental principles of the EU to the limit.
Top leaders, from Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker to prime ministers Matteo Renzi and Mark Rutte, and president Francois Hollande, reveal some of the biggest clashes the European Council has ever witnessed.
As Europe is split over whether to share the burden of migrants or toughen up borders, a controversial deal with Turkey – aided by shutting down borders to keep migrants out of Europe – brings the crisis out of control. But the political damage is grave.
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