flee or leave their countries and and think of a better future in europe those are all elements that are particularly important for the german chancellor and that also explains why she believes that the elements that the challenges that germany faces abroad have a direct impact when it comes to germany here at home and to the well being of germans for example when it comes to all these issues that we re discussing today as far as the budget is concerned. so the chancellor is obviously stressing multi-lateralism she s saying that it is under pressure as you mentioned she s talking about german defense spending trying to reassure german germany s allies that germany will continue to contribute to the nato missions abroad and other multilateral missions as well one of germany of course is also a signatory to the iran nuclear deal which the u.s. has just dropped out of meetings have been taking place this week in an effort to salvage that by the europeans as well as the the russians and th
about a balanced budget whether we re talking about no new dates where we re talking about unemployment but i m going to very quickly moved from those issues to other issues namely international issues that s something that i found particularly interesting but i think i understand why i m going to trying to to focus specifically on those asian and that is because she believes that that s something that her government has also believed for many years that germany s stability of the well being of many germans not only depends on internal matters but is also directly linked to what happens you know the parts of the world to the credibility that germany has internationally and to some of the challenges that germany faces abroad whether we re talking about migration with the we re talking about the german french cooperation model whether we re talking about the euro zone whether we re talking about the future of the european union after all those are issues that german government believes a
a building company and get the permits and this is why we have to speed up the permit and regulation path and here it is. you are watching our special. coverage from the german bund is taught the parliament chancellor merkel is addressing the bonus talk there on the occasion of the general budget debate all this week the german parliament is discussing the the budget with me in the studio as micaela cook though we ve been talking about what the chancellor has been been addressing today we also have down at the bonus talk thomas sparrow our political correspondents following the speech of course live for us too and joins us now thomas this is supposed to be a budget debates we ve been listening to chancellor merkel talk bell for more than thirty four than half an hour she s given us any insights into what her priorities are. well she has obviously stated some of the key elements when it comes to to her budget priorities not only now but also in the past few years where we re talking
budget and the european budget and the german budget while meeting stability criteria that is not easy and this is why with france we have to talk about the interactions what does the budget have to calm the tane because after the brics it . eighty five percent of. your rose on budget relay means and what will we need on top of that these talks are underway and until in june we willing come to a complication and this is the only open question that remains to be answered and many suggesting rooms have to be made so i think we have rest quite far. even and ladies and gentlemen. from other viewers you are watching a live discussion of what is type of debate in germany s parliament the right to just here in berlin chancellor merkel has been speaking now for about twenty
addressing the parliament right now it s a general debate about the budget the session was opened by bibles she is co-leader of the far right if the party which is now the largest all position party in the german parliament they have ninety two seats just to bring you up to date on that in any case we did hear from the spot we got a good taste of what her far right party how her party has changed the tone of debate in germany s been as talking there in the bonus talk for the first time let s listen in to a sound bite from slidell again co-leader of germany s far right party speaking in the parliament just a short while ago. i don t know yet you voted for the ban fund a permanent and automatic finance mechanism and you praised the plans of president emanuel. there was no opposition to the gigantic transfer of german tax money no opposition to any e.u.