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Elmar Brok - Member of the European Parliament

Published: July 20, 2018, 10:07 a.m.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Elmar Brok, MEP - the longest serving member of the European parliament and a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The EU is bedeviled by problems that simply won\u2019t go away \u2013 from Brexit to immigration to an increasingly vexed relationship with the Trump Administration. Germany is the EU\u2019s most powerful economy, but is its political clout on the wane?

(Photo: Elmar Brok prior to the beginning of the EU foreign ministers meeting on the constitution in Brussels, 2004. Credit: Thierry Monasse/AFP)