MPT Classics
The New Europeans
Special | 58m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Examining the European reunification movement told from the human perspective.
In 1992, MPT presented this 3-part look at the European reunification movement in which 12 nation-members of the European Economic Community worked to unite their culturally diverse regions into the world's largest economy. This international co-production teamed MPT with Deutsche Welle Fernsehen Berlin and Access Communications & World Trade, Ltd.
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MPT Classics
The New Europeans
Special | 58m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
In 1992, MPT presented this 3-part look at the European reunification movement in which 12 nation-members of the European Economic Community worked to unite their culturally diverse regions into the world's largest economy. This international co-production teamed MPT with Deutsche Welle Fernsehen Berlin and Access Communications & World Trade, Ltd.
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(cinematic music) (Man speaking French) (celebratory music) - [Man 1] I would be very grateful if you could tell us some levels of price of the land around here.
(Missile launching) (Building explosion) (Gun shots) (Crowd conversing) (Man hammering wall) (Cinematic music) - [Man 2] Welcome to the Berlin cabaret.
Oh, it's so new now.
The walls have come tumbling down and we all are in the limelight now.
You, are you my friend?
And you, whose side are you on?
Mmmh.
Watch that you gonna be in cabaret.
(Instrumental music) (Man singing in foreign language) (Playful music) (Crowd clapping) (Man speaking in foreign language) (Camera shutter goes off) (Man cutting grass) (Vehicle engine running) (Man speaking foreign language) (Sewing machine going off) (Woman speaking foreign language) (chicken clucking) (pigs snorting) (woman speaking foreign language) (Man speaking foreign language) (Crowd mingling) (man speaking foreign language) (crowd chanting) (man speaking French) (crowd rioting) (siren wailing) (men singing) (men talking) (water splashing) - [Man 3] I took three years in my priming.
After I graduated, I work in the department.
We go from village to village to educate them and we treat them against small pox, measles, and other things.
(Vehicle engine running) (Men speaking foreign language) Well there's nothing I have to do, I have to keep on living or eating.
So any child that I get I need not to reject it.
(men speaking foreign language) You have to paddle your own canoe.
So however difficult it is you should try.
(Men hitting tree brunch) It is really bad position but what can I do?
I've put myself in the middle already.
But having no working permit does not mean that the former author cheat me.
- [Man 4] Good morning?
- [Man 5] Good morning.
- [Man 4] From Burkina Faso.
(Man speaking French) (choir singing) - [Man 6] The ACP group hopes that the current reordering all the world economic blocks, that the advent of the single market in 1992 as well as the opening of the East of Eastern Europe would not lead to the extinguishing of the torch of domain and the marginalization of ACP ECR arraignment in international economic cooperation.
(Men talking) - [Man 3] Europe, there of course there is technology.
The know how you know.
And they are developing.
And Africans what are we really doing?
What's in our aroma seriously for them to use before they take it back us?
And you visitors they are here as tourists and they go back.
Well at present I don't know whether left or right.
We have given everything to God to help our affairs.
- [Woman 1] One Venuto, Italia quiz, Sono, MTV Aveso in Milan, Yes.
We're so happy that finally Italy is part of the global family of MTV because right now you can see us everywhere Europe.
From Barcelona over to Dislodge to Paris.
And finally, also here in Milan.
So this is going to be a great party tonight.
Let's have fun.
This is MTV finally, all over Europe...awful- Okay, we will be back- - [Man 7] I'm from New York, but coming over here and living here for four years, real mind opener.
And you have no idea how isolated and sometimes narrow minded people are in America.
(TV playing music) What I would do this, yeah, - [Woman 3] This is doing well in the States now.
- [Man 7] Lets do prime and I think we should accept it.
If there's gonna be a second phase of the melting part, you know, America is considered the first melting part.
Cause there's gonna be sort of a rejuvenating melting part, its gonna happen here.
This is big fear that, oh my God its unification everybody is gonna lose their identity.
I don't buy it for one minute.
I think we gonna be much more naturalistic and film much more pride.
- [Woman 4] Fifteen minutes worth of facts and fun on the one and only MTV-Coca cola reports.
(Instrumental music) - [Man 8] There's a danger that the younger generation, except this culture because we have to be so-called European.
For example, they open the television, they see twenty five channels and they have this kind of influence of the so-called commercial music.
But my opinion is that we are Europeans and if we are Hungarians, that's the way we can be European.
(Crowd cheering) (instrumental music) (Man speaking foreign language) (Woman speaking foreign language) (people drumming) (man speaking foreign language) - [Man 9] We are interested, particularly interested in what I would call the newly emerging private sector as opposed to the privatized state-owned companies.
These are newly formed enterprises oftentimes by former managers of these companies.
And Quinn is an outstanding example of that type that want to go into business for themselves.
People work extraordinarily hard in these in these sectors, highly focused they are usually addressing a particular niche where they see an opportunity and where they have rather full understanding of what they are doing.
(playful music) The British government's fear is a free investment is a part of free trade.
And we are the champions of free trade.
We welcome investment from any country.
And if the companies are Japanese that want to invest, that is fine with us.
(footsteps) - [Man 10] Where we battle day in day out the Japanese.
Every day we're up against the Sony's and the Sushi does the Panasonic's, the Toshiba's of this world.
And I can tell you, it's no fun.
It's no fun at all.
There's absolutely no protection out there.
It's a bloody battlefield because our sector consumer electronics has been defined targeted by our Japanese competitors as being an area they wanted to take over worldwide.
This is an area in which they want global domination.
As we speak, people are realizing more and more that their future is at stake.
They see jobs disappearing or the thousands.
- [Man 11] It is too small for container ships so the port of Manchester has affected the cause.
- [Man 12] England has been very successful.
Attracting firms into our region from Japan, United States, Australia, and Denmark.
If we can now turn to the availability of supplies of component parts Northwest England is a major manufacturing center accounting for approximately 13% of all UK output.
- [Man 1] I would be very grateful if you could some levels of price of the land around here, of course prices might differ from land to land and price of houses are etc.
- [Man 9] No I do not think the Japanese invest overseas to improve the unemployment situation in the home country.
The Japanese are very much like everybody else.
Any foreign company or any company with international ambitions go investing in countries and with a view to making profit.
(plane engine running) - [Man 10] This is for me?
Thank you.
- [Lenon] I'm Ronald Lenon, nice to meet you.
My name is Ronald Lenon, I am senior vice president of communications and my job today, is to make a presentation.
As you know, there's a directive being negotiated in Brussels.
There's a lot of wheeling and dealing a lot of arm twisting a lot of shouting, a lot of lobbying.
And we are confident that at the end of the year we will have a directive that will be consensual, that will that people will that all the parties involved will subscribe to.
It's going to be difficult, but we're optimistic.
- [Man 9] The purpose of the single market is not to establish a fortress Europe.
The whole purpose of a single market is to encourage the movement of trade, it is not to hold it.
As far as I'm concerned all protection is in, is to allow the consumer no choice, he has to put up with second best.
(Man speaking foreign language) She says that I know a member, ladies and gentlemen.
(Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 11] My job is to attract, promote the UK as the preferred location in Europe for Japanese investment.
And therefore my should say pretty simply, thank you.
(Crowd clapping) (Plane engine running) - [Man 12] Zero one check wheel's down, wind calm, clear to land.
(crowd cheering) (Vehicle engine running) (Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 13] This is Russian number and this is Hungarian number.
- [Man 14] Yeah, it is.
We, we acknowledge that you are right.
And we acknowledge that this is our mistake.
This is our mistake.
- [Man 13] Okay, we accept it.
- [Man 14] Okay.
Thank you very much.
(Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 15] Colonel, gentlemen, we have to sign this protocol and finish the inspection.
I didn't designate any sequential inspection so right now our work in Hungary for this time ends.
(man speaking foreign language) (Plane engine running) (Gun shots) (vehicle engine running) - [Man 16] What we can do here is talking to a mayor's chief of police.
And we can go to the front line and have a talk with them.
Try to come down the tension by telling them that they have to talk together and not do the fighting's.
Normally they do ceasefire.
And when we go back to they start fighting again.
(Vehicle engine running) (man speaking foreign language) (woman speaking foreign language) (Gunshots) (soldiers speaking) (woman speaking foreign language) (man speaking foreign language) (woman speaking foreign language) (gunshots) (vehicle engine running) (Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 17] Choose the afternoon, you are going to the personal office of the legion to talk about the question of anonymous.
Imagine when you come here, we put you into a big stewing pot with a lid on it.
From inside of the stewing pot, there were no leaks from the inside onto the outside and there's no way anybody can get from the outside onto inside.
This stewing pot is closed from the outside world.
(trumpet playing) (Man speaking foreign language) (knock) (Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 18] Have you done your military service in Colombia?
- [Man 19] No.
- [Man 20] Does you have family know that you're here in Fond region?
- [Man 19] Yes.
(Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 20] This decision which you take, to come here to the Fond region, they accepted it or?
- [Man 19] They accept, yes.
(Man speaking foreign language) - [Man 20] Imagine falling among us, the French president, is it okay that we are going to send him the Fond region to your personnel?
To put them between the two sides?
Are you willing to go there and fight for the French army?
- [Man 19] Yes.
(man speaking foreign language) - [Man 20] No problem?
- [Man 19] No.
(Soldier speaking foreign language) (Soldiers chanting) (Vehicle engine running) (man speaking French) - [Man 24] The Euro-Disney project is the world Disney company's most important project in this decade.
Not only a decade in which the Walt Disney company will see unprecedented expansion in the new European markets, but a decade in which Europe itself is already undergoing unprecedented transformation.
(crowd clapping) (band playing instruments) (Footsteps) - [Man 21] We think that here in France especially this part of France, we've got a lot of our history.
If you see the cathedral, if you see the Versailles or all the charters around here.
And if you just thought of Disney taking the Versailles and bringing all these visitors, ten millions a year?
And showing them the story of Europe, I think this would have been a lovely story.
(men speaking foreign language) When you come in a country and like us, it is quite something we resent very much, uh, to find out its compulsory to talk English if you want to enter the Disney world Which is sitting in your own garden, in your own country.
These children coming up through Disney will just see perpetual marketing system trying to play on the European values through this tales.
I don't think they'll see much of our true and real culture.
(Woman speaking foreign language) - [Man 22] Well I don't think that anybody wants to say that we are European.
I think we are saying we are Disney.
And we have a culture of our own and I think we are international.
We can be American, we can be European we can be Asian.
We've been popular with all nationalities.
This is cross all cultural barriers.
(playing instruments) (crowd cheering) (playful music) - [Man 2] Did you like the show?
How long will it run?
Does it have a future?
Now its up to us.
(Blowing mouth) (cinematic music) - [Announcer] This is PBS.
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