The Record: Europe

18 October edition
Lucy Thomas
Producer

EU leaders agree financial rescue plan

EU leaders met in Brussels this week to agree a financial rescue plan.

They adopted measures to calm the troubled money markets and called for an international meeting to overhaul world financial rules.

But faced with the threat of recession some EU leaders came close to derailing their own strategy to rescue the planet.

On the Record Europe, Shirin Wheeler asks why some now think that they cannot afford to implement the EU plan to tackle climate change.

She spoke to:

• Claude Turmes, Luxembourg Green MEP and Renewables report author for the European Parliament
• George Parker, Political Editor, Financial Times
• John Monks,European Trade Union Confederation

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Climate change discussion in full

Immigration plans signed

Record Europe immigration discussion

EU leaders also signed the new Pact on Immigration and Asylum.

We examine the charge that this heralds new and unwelcome powers for the EU.

Joining the programme to give their views are:

• Elizabeth Collet, migration specialist, European Policy Centre
• Syed Kamall MEP, British Conservative
• Bjarte Vandvik, European Council on Refugees and Exiles

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The Record: Europe examines the key moments in the political week in Brussels and Strasbourg and focuses on the work of the European Parliament and European Commission.

It is broadcast on BBC Parliament on Saturdays at 2300 GMT, Sundays at 1700 GMT and Mondays at 1000 GMT, on BBC World on Saturdays at 1330 GMT and Sundays at 0630 GMT and on the BBC News channel on Sundays at 0530 GMT and Mondays at 0330 GMT.

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Presenter profile

Shirin Wheeler

Shirin Wheeler presents the weekly EU politics programme The Record: Europe from Brussels and Strasbourg.

She is based in the BBC's Brussels bureau. She was born in Berlin and educated in Washington DC, Brussels and Britain.

Shirin has been in Brussels since 1996, working mainly with BBC TV and radio.

During her time in Belgium she has also reported for BBC business programmes, local radio and regional TV. She has two daughters.