refugee crisis but even things like strengthening extra border something where everybody is on the same page but increasing the border force the so-called from taxation see that is something not everybody can agree to so i had a look at the draft council conclusions and in there it says further efforts shall be made to block these reforms also up for discussion and they are euro zone reform today france we know pushing forward momentum but germany appears to be dragging its feet what is the sticking point here. well it s not just or only dragging its feet a number of of states were unhappy about the big plans that the french president might call had for the eurozone and so we re looking at a list of what s down ideas basically from what my crawl has suggested on the other hand one has to say finance ministers agreed to a lot of things in a long long session last week and they were rather upbeat about what they have
continue to go down that road of nationalism and forget about solidarity for example in the question of migration that is extremely dangerous and might shake the foundations of the e.u. that was after all the director of peace in the last decades here on this continent max we re looking at these images of a unity solidarity between germany and france from over the weekend when looking at the past but how united are they when it comes to how they see europe s future. now the french president they might call as opposed to going to medical is in charge of visions in the european union and in the beginning right after his election he had hoped that he could advances agenda with the help of a strong medical but then the political troubles in germany came in the way on top of that both of them don t necessarily want the same things in certain areas for example euro zone reform reform but they have found common ground they made some decisions on euro zone reform on migration the problem is th
government in berlin was just very fragile from brosnan s view so you can expect that the next you summits maybe the one in december and also that in march we re not have many results and also the french president has now to look for a new ally to push his reforms but it can also be a chance for him out of the mccollum because mrs merkel was very reluctant to support him in the euro zone reform but you have to keep in mind she s still the chancellor maybe she s around for three more years absolutely but they are and i important you some it s coming up it s not that how she feels about her said but how would she be viewed there still as a strong girl been leader or someone who s dime is running out and has a party diminished. but she suddenly be viewed as a lame duck from people and countries who don t like her is there some respect for her because she s of course the longest serving head of state in europe she has
migration but not the euro zone reform that mccrone has been pushing something that he certainly is very interested in ok we re going to wait on that question there approaching the microphones you will be getting some translation here let s go to the press conference that. i m a. little. they don t want you to look great no matter. on. a minute. if anything so thank you very much for being here with us today. and. i am very happy that we can meet you here today in this beautiful city of must say. you know i believe that the mayor will confirm this in a minute that this city is very proud to welcome you here today. we just had a football match
a trade war that nobody would win she said europe regards the us as a friend and does not want to trade war but is willing to take countermeasures if necessary you know we know how to treat war but we could be and that would be extremely serious if this situation escalates because i do not think trade wars are good and i don t think they are easy to win and that is something that many countries across the world change and i wouldn t say to protect the european union and other countries such as mexico and canada reacted last week against something that we thought was blatantly violating the w two routes we stand up for w t o rules so we took us to the w t o and we re also preparing a fully compliant w two rebalancing measures. german chancellor angela merkel has broken cover on euro zone reform responding to a speech by a french president a monarch or in april merkel agreed the founding of a european monetary fund and a common investment budget that was smaller one than