Now it is time for politics europe. Hello and welcome to politics europe, your regular guide to the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. Amazon is the latest Us Technology giant to be caught in an eu crackdown over its tax affairs. The company says it doesnt owe any back taxes. Meps have voted to urge the eu not to open the next phase of brexit talks unless there is a major breakthrough. But are they treating the uk like a hostage . The crisis in catalonia following its independence referendum could spark civil war in the middle of europe according to one eu commissioner. Well have the latest. So all that to come in the next half an hour. Im joined for it all by kate andrews from the institute of Economic Affairs and george parkerfrom the financial times. Welcome to you both. First today, heres our round up of some of this weeks big political stories from europe in 60 seconds. Perhaps theyre a little frustrated, unable to play much of a formal role in brexit negotiations on meps are
People who are sacked are very displeased and a significant number of people who think they should have been promoted and were not, they are also displeased. Reshuffle is not the panacea that it is easily thought to be. Keeping close, not foreign secretary, if i am to interpret your words correctly . think it would be. Look, if you put borisjohnson think it would be. Look, if you put Boris Johnson on think it would be. Look, if you put borisjohnson on the back benches, he would be all of the country, the media, take to the hustings, he would pursue his own brexit view of policy which would be extremely divisive because he is broadly now arguing for a hard brexit. The only way that you can avoid leaving him as foreign secretary with all of the problems that has created which is to give him ajob that has created which is to give him a job which is essentially domestic. You give anyjob to boris and he will still be boris. Briefly, those backing theresa may at the moment, do you think that