The beginning of the conference. My name is seth i teach history at the university. And im here to proceed over this panel. Talking about the 1790s then and now thinking about the relationship between the particularly fragile moment in american political history which was the 1790s. And how we might think about what we can learn from that moment and how it connects or maybe it doesnt connect to whats happening in american political history at this moment. So the way this is going to work is ill introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five to seven minutes or so and develop a few lines of inquiry. Ill ask a few questions based upon what people have said. And folks will have a chance to have a conversation here. But then we want to leave the last at least 45 or 30 minutes for questions from the audience. So as we go on, please have in mind things that you want to say or things you want to ask about. All right. So i want to introduce folks from my left to my right. So firs
M its good to have you with us today members of the European Parliament made history by electing the 1st woman to be Commission President that woman germanys outgoing defense minister ursula fun. Now she will succeed john called younger in the top job after being voted in by a narrow margin of just 9 votes underly and will be as we said the 1st woman to ever serve as the Commission President in the European Union. Of underlined as promised a united and strong europe saying that she will work constructively and pragmatically to achieve that we want to go live now to our Brussels Bureau chief rex hoffman he is standing by at the European Parliament in strasbourg and i think i understand he has the newly elected president with a mass. Thats right brant we do was alive on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. Relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. Formulate the guidelines the political guid
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Development in the diesel emissions cheating scandal and at the world conflict belgium got off to a winning start the tournament by beating panama three nil look at that and the dainties get. Off its good to have you with us the german chancellor Angela Merkel has a verdict a crisis in her government over migration policy for now at least her interior minister a horse a horse her from the chancers Bavarian Sister Party the c. S. U. Wants to close germanys borders to some refugees the chancellor says that would go against European Union principles which today say hold for gave merkel a deadline if she cant deliver a solution in cooperation with the e. U. In two weeks time he says hell act alone. She didnt get more than a short respite but that was still more than chancellor Angela Merkel was expecting. After fears her government would collapse she has now won some time until the e. U. Summit at the end of june to find a european solution to the asylum dispute. Merkel has made it clear t