So for those who think we need movement in europe then i think i think there is something to look forward to let s pull in brussels correspondent barbara vai s all she s been following this very exciting day in german politics with us he needs to you barbara so let me ask you you ve spent a lot of time covering politics in france in paris let s talk about micro in america will and the future of the e.u. . is he breathing a sigh of relief based on what happened tonight with the social democrats. definitely so we saw on friday evening uncle america visiting and manu in the kremlin paris and that was sort of like a ceremonial visits because they really didn t have anything concrete to talk about but it was a sign that he wanted to show that she is my partner i need her in europe i need her to sort of do anything to move things and it was just
This coming week and go down in flames be arrested and become a march or great maybe some some people some of his supporters would love that but it s not clear whether he ll want to do it he could also just sort of keep his feet still and wait for madrid to act and he could still call for elections from his own side he could do this before the senate takes his powers away on friday so he could still call for elections and overtly autonomy being suspended that is basically his best bet but whether he will choose that is totally unclear all right barbara vai s on monitoring the situation from barcelona thank you so much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world and voters in the northern italian regions of lombardy and been a tow are holding non-binding referendums asking for more autonomy from the central government both regions are led by members of the far right northern league they want more powers over infrastructure health and education they re also looking to
Be getting from london any more i talk about that i m joined by our correspondents in brussels barbara vai s of good evening to you barbara so yeah i mean this is these are tricky numbers here we ve got no money from the u.k. coming in after bragg s it but a bigger e.u. budget overall so who s going to basically pick up the slack here. one country that is going to take up the slack of course is germany and berlin has already conceded and said yes we are willing to put more money into the kitty and there in was about four to five billion. e.u. budget contribution paris s also already said yes we are willing to pay somewhat more it will be not quite as much but there will be a big force coming from paris and so it goes around about those countries that pay net into the european budget and they don t take out like most of the eastern