wants the top job at the european union. and she s been campaigning for in brussels germany s defense minister ursula fonda line has been on a charm offensive there as part of her quest to become president of the commission on her agenda if she s successful fighting climate change and integrating europe s own forces. walk. through the busy it s fun to lyons 1st public appearance as nominee for the e.u. commission presidency the european union s top job her priority is to speak with m.e.p. is 1st to clarify her position and gauge the mood she s meeting with european social democrats who are critical of fund a lion a conservative and i mean for she was specific on some issues but on other areas she stayed quite vague so that was definitely not the end of our discussions. fund
germany s foreign minister in this just the outgoing government of i m going to now call in the grand coalition such time i knows exactly what is party is would be letting itself in for if it were to enter into another grand coalition a situation where the party in the past four years has managed to put a lot of its interests push push through a lot of its program and to have it actually implemented by the government yet not to be rewarded by the voters for that all the credit for that is going to anger america and the social democrats have done very badly in recent elections so under these circumstances it s very difficult for the social democrats once again to enter such a coalition for fear that their party will suffer further did have used hands branch reporting outside of the presidential palace here in berlin thank you hans. now a leading member of chancellor merkel s conservative acting defense minister ursula fonda line has also urged the s.p.d. to enter into talks here s what