and the new chairman of the african union egypt and present president cesium i convert to nations on your elections this was only a few days ago. because this relationship that we forge with africa is going to be a very challenging must particularly for us here peons do a little bit different from the relationship with the united states it will not be always nato missions that said please we want to build a consistent coherent european defense policy and this is not addressed against nato it is something that is just strengthened cooperation within nato rendering it more efficient make it better because among the many who are member states in the european union and nato a we can overcome hurdles only and so if we develop a joint. sort of culture here i ll join defense culture if you like if we realign our weapons systems we want to we will be challenged very much here in germany we have signed this treaty and i hung with france and obviously export control plays
a role if we don t develop a a common culture of how we deal with arms exports obviously the development of a comma defense industry will also be jeopardized we cannot speak of also of a european army if and defense cooperation if we re not ready to adopt a common defense export policy and a common arms export policy there will be quite a number of tricky discussions out there it s not a secret i think that i m telling you here now they. sentiment power from our relationship with russia we ve also we also have combating terrorism on the agenda another great challenge and after march two thousand and fourteen apart from the euro crisis in two thousand and fourteen fifteen we work as you know very closely with the results trying to make it possible for greece to remember to say and the euro zone and then we have to grapple with the refugee issue the migration issue and this was feel old obviously by the situation in syria on the ground because