this is d.w. news live from berlin chancellor angela merkel seeks the help of the president to model my call of france as she scrambles to forge a new european migration policy the two leaders are meeting their berlin with their ministers the chancellor is under intense pressure her own interior minister has told her to find a solution to the migration crisis fast or she will take action himself. also

coming out of a new record for misery the united nations refugee agency says almost sixty nine million people were forcibly displaced last year fleeing the war violence and persecution. and a roundup of world cup news including england to getting their campaign off to a winning start we'll have highlights and previews of today's match. i'm sorry so much going to get to have you with us germany's chancellor angela merkel is meeting france's president tomorrow mccall in a push to find a solution to europe's migration crisis arrived in germany earlier today and headed to the talks in may's a back outside of berlin he and macko are meeting today to prepare for and you summit next week in which both hope to reach a compromise on the blocs deep divisions over migration merkel is under intense pressure within her cohen. and in particular for her own interior minister to find

a solution to the migration crisis by the end of the month. and let's talk about all of this now we have our chief political editor michelle or krisna with us here in our studio and simon young our political correspondent is outside of berlin at mr castle where anglo-american and manuel mccall are meeting today simon let's start with you medical needs and a solution here her job appears to be on the airline she's under intense pressure from her own interior minister yesterday she met with italy's prime minister today it might or might call what kind of support is she looking to get from the french leader. well you know there's not going to be a comprehensive a european agreement on asylum and migration coming out of the softer news talks which have been slightly shorter than they were planned to be anyway because mr mccraw was delayed in a riving by about an hour so they've had about three hours of talks together and

possibly they'll be able to come out in front of the press in just a few minutes time as we're expecting and tell us that they've agreed to move forward with forming that common policy that both anglo-american and emanuel mccraw have said is essential about harmonizing the way that migrants in asylum seekers have dealt with as they come into europe and trying to forge a way forward how they can persuade the other european countries some of them not at all happy about migration to play ball and join in because of course angle america is looking to pronounce particularly germany's strongest friend in europe to give it a little bit support just at this time of crisis for anglo-american and sam and as you said the german or french leaders are expected to speak to the press a little while we're keeping our eye on that and will go to that live as soon as that happens with michelle and you heard there from simon as he said they're looking to forge a common policy what would that policy look like

a german french solution well it would certainly involve a lot more solidarity and the real question for today because until a week ago this was really about what kind of common ground will they particularly find on the euro zone and that they've room for maneuver for the german chancellor is limited by her very own and he's very concerned that german parliament wouldn't have a say if they're in the end with something like a transfer union german taxpayers standing in for the debt of italy or france now this is all become about migration because nachle is acutely threatened by a potential in a party rebellion now and what we could potentially effect to see is one of those deals she's now promised to make in the lead up to this european summit in just over ten. time which would be some kind of agreement where the countries take back were directed asylum seekers bilateral agreements like france and italy already have for instance and that is something we didn't want to do she wanted to head for the big consensus option at the e.u. level yesterday she met italy's prime minister conti and that really kicked off

what will potentially now be a whole series of negotiations all focusing on migration. last week he was in paris last night involved in it was newly elected rightwing conservative prime minister. who set the tone for today's meeting between anger machall and france's president in monterrey. borders our european borders instead of being divided in europe about solidarity and responsibility we must all act together with a multilevel approach. that very solidarity just backfired on the german chancellor at home to avert a government rebellion she promised to deliver a new pan-european deals on this so today's meeting with the french cabinet near berlin is key to bringing paris on board as most other e.u.

partners chattering past each other like the tower of babel despite a mountain of problems to solve with travelers home the long list france and germany want to discuss has just been refocused to what was already top of the list migration here french president mccall two wants to see progress. systems that were designed to work with quotas did not deliver we must find suitable mechanisms that. machall finds herself torn between the political support she now needs and what she is expected to offer. you boy didn't you we want to support italy's desire for solidarity and hope that germany will also get understanding when we talk about solidarity in europe around the issue of migration so as merkel and mccall sit down to talk europe means a back man a house both under pressure to find an answer on e.u. migration and ideally

a common definition of what european solidarity actually means. all right so key talks are taking place there michel and we should say you are viewers that we are waiting for the german and french leaders that's the pictures you see there on the right hand side of your screen to address the press and we'll be listening in as soon as they come out but michelle as you said in your report there merkel is under pressure she has about two weeks to find a some sort of solution with our european partners to this migration crisis at this point how important is it for her to send out a positive signal ahead of this big summit that is looming next week on the european union well most of all she needs to send a signal that this is actually doable because it's been several years now over the past three years we've seen very little headway at the european level we saw actually this quota system that was set up essentially fail particularly with those eastern states first and foremost hungary flatly refusing to take my parents

particularly if they're muslims so this is an overarching issue here at the same time we've heard him on my call time and time again pay lip service to a pan-european solution but at the same time only taking in a fraction of the number that germany has taken in for instance so what germany has put on the table now is that it wants to create incentives rather than working with a quota system incentives for taking on migrants that could actually germany being refunded for some of the costs that it might have in the future for taking in migrants but you know we see a real change of dynamics here because just a week ago i would have said we're waiting for the german answer to my call well today we're sitting here we're also waiting for answers to what was an essential threat potentially still is one to america's leadership in germany but also in europe and that was completely changed the dynamics not just of an e.u. summit but of how policy is done and who takes the lead in europe right now simon coming to you know michelle is saying there that the chancellor needs to send

a message that this is doable is it doable you know what is going to be the toughest part of getting this common e.u. solution. was michelle mentioned there are countries that are outright against the migrant flows and i think that that is going to be the most difficult thing countries like hungary and poland and of course at the same time you've got the southern european countries greece and italy in particular which are taken in so many people feel that they've been left alone so that's the the danger for angle americal is really this decision about whether it's a good idea to go for bilateral agreements and try and make deals possibly with incentives as michelle mentioned you know to get to get that type of bilateral solution maybe that's stable but the problem is it's not a pan european solution and that means that in the in the end you won't have

a common approach and you won't have a last thing solution that european level says that's what's needed it's not absolutely clear what france thinks they have this bilateral deal for instance with italy they've returned ten thousand and more migrants to italy this year and they haven't in generally in general been particularly migrant friendly in recent years so in in detail it's not clear even if the the french approach is that close to anglo-american although as i expect there will be some supportive words because and because a manual mccraw has big plans for changing things that european level not just on the migrant issue but on many other issues and he needs angle americal in place to help him push that through he needs anglo-american in place mashallah but she's coming from this summit rather from a weakened position does that change the equation well it means that some potentially the time is even more pressing as if it could be any more pressing at

this point in time to really get on the same page particularly in stabilizing the europe because that's not make any mistake about that the stability of the eurozone is. the benchmark is the bedrock of the economics of success not just of the european union but in particular also of the german economy and that is really something that is very much the power base of under machall she can speak to the german public and say look the economy is running smoothly despite all those scandals in the auto industry and that is a great benefit that germans have been able to really get out of the euro zone and a man who in my core wants to see. not just an investment budget which is going to match something i'm going to talking about but really a euro zone budget which would mean potentially also raising taxes e.u. wide this is the idea of taxes on digital companies in the e.u. and really taking this forward it's essentially also and he put it in

a phase where he said we have to give up some more sovereignty to europe to actually reach european sovereignty otherwise we would be completely divided well there's no division really on on the this kind of outlook that europe needs to six together but it very much is the small print it's where the money is where both and i wouldn't even say the german chancellor herself necessarily but certainly her piece here in the german born the stock which after all has the right to take these key decisions that concern the budget here in germany and they are very afraid of losing that so to certain degree her hands are tied when it comes to the small print the big picture i think both very much see eye to eye but they need quick successes and that of course raises the risk i would say of getting a small piece of policy successes once again well for today to survive the next couple of weeks to not face potential further rebellion here from within her own

c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative union. in a bilateral deal with france would already be quite a way forward. so much a tackle and so little time michelle obama as we mentioned we are waiting for that press conference to start between the french and german leaders our chief political editor michelle simon young our correspondent there outside of a castle where those two leaders are meeting we will be speaking to you both a little bit later thank you both so many western governments are tightening their migration policies as we've heard and so increasing numbers of migrants are being sent home the gambia in west africa is one of the world's poorest nations so many young gambians try to make it to europe but when they are sent back home they often find themselves overwhelmed by a sense of shame and with few opportunities to improve their prospects. known endearingly as the smiling coast of africa the gambia has little in way of its economy to smile about two decades of tyranny call ruthless to specially young

people to europe in search of a better life but now into new governance these migrants asylum applications of being rejected and spent three years in germany training and working as a kid give a full deal to me until he was unexpectedly deported he now lives with his mother and six of the people in a small house in the capital. from the sure this is my folder from school in germany where. they arrested me inside the classroom so i had to take it with me and went out of my shop and i brought my school books all the way back with me. from here. this is the worst case scenario well integrated immigrant with job prospects in germany ends up back in the gambia with nothing the twenty two year old can barely bring himself to leave the house ashamed he didn't live up to his expectations.

government. they want to deport me but i don't have any. problem in germany my. i couldn't commit not in a new walk then go home and to return in and finish i'm going to school what is really hard for me right now because they do for me morning i lost my job and john i'm here in mine you know i don't have any support for anybody so. yeah. activist knows how bleak the situation can be they're coming home to a country that has no more opportunities for them. i mean talk country that has been done right and you know they're coming back or society that we stigmatize them that we treat them like if you lose. need to be deported and used to this is

a the be treated like a view and to be used to stigma of the society that notifies the western world it's not the best start for the gambia as young democracy but use minister henry gomez says these little the virtually bankrupt country can do it i can assure you that anybody. who came to my office. has been put into some way to do something we how would it look no one of them but minister are you saying that in this country in order to get a job you have to see the minister that i cannot. cite for all of them understood what i could or should want to happen to be at least into the apple over them and worked with double what their problem if it comes to my office but listening will do little for people like doll who have nothing to show for their stay abroad and

nothing to look forward to at home. it's not just in europe but around the world that a record number of people are on the move a new report by the un refugee agency says war and conflict have led to the largest . increase in refugees and displaced people since it started monitoring the situation in one nine hundred fifty one the report says that since two thousand and sixteen the number of refugees has increased by three million to a total of sixty eight point five million people roughly two thirds of them are from five countries syria afghanistan south sudan mean maher and somalia as well now the agency says that resolving any one of those regional conflicts would have a major impact on the global refugee crisis earlier we spoke to charlie yaxley a u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson in geneva switzerland with the number of refugees having jumped to a new record level i asked him what his organization is doing to decrease the numbers of people fleeing war. well for the fifth year in a row we've reached another diam ol stone this is

a new record that's been set what we're seeing is the wall more more situations of violence warm persecution is forcing people from their homes at the same time solutions for people who are that be resettlement all the chance to return home is increasingly reducing what needs to happen now is a global response seeks to address the situation and something like this is in the plan last year at the un general assembly assembly states agreed to develop the global compact the refugees we seek to support not only refugees but host communities as well but at the same time we need to tackle the root causes of displacement we need to be able to prevent this violence from happening in the first place in the future that will prevent new people being forced to flee and also hopefully create the conditions that will startle our own people to return

home now charlie your agency says that resolving any one of the regional conflicts that we mentioned would have a major impact in solving the crisis but the un security council itself has not been very effective in doing so how do you see a solution on that front. well what's needed is for the international community to come together. to come together in dialogue and to find these political solutions that bring an end to the bloodshed it requires those who have influence over the parties the conflicts and violence to use that influence to bring about peace right now what we're seeing is a real deficit around the world in peacemaking and peacebuilding and it's affecting record numbers of people and these are not just figures these are men women and children who through no fault of their own having to leave everything they know their lives their community behind and having to start again he said these are not

just your un high commission has also said that the number of refugees under way at the moment sixty eight point five million isn't unmanageable for rich countries yet if you look at germany's case it is something that the country is still struggling with that the question of migration is threatening even to topple the government has your agency been really looking at the issue of also not only taking in refugees but integrating them. well we have to be very clear here more than eighty five percent of the world's refugees are being hosted in developing countries so it is poor countries that have the greatest of the responsibility for hosting and receiving refugees. there is a need for richer countries around the world to come forward in solidarity and to share a great. share of. this is

a matter of political will the solutions of it requires european solidarity it requires coming together to share an equitable distribution. and that requires more dialogue that we hope to see next week in the european leaders summit in brussels right a question of political will charlie yaxley u.n.h.c.r. spokesman in geneva switzerland thank you so much for joining us on our program today. migration policy is also dividing the us president donald trump came to power promising action against illegal immigrants now he is defending his administration's border protection policy in the face of rising outrage over the for separation by korean children from their parents he has called for tough action against illegal immigration and declared that the u.s. would not be a migrant camp the number of migrant children being separated from their parents has risen sharply since early may placing many children in sealed camps with little or no contact with their families. they are images which has shocked the

world children detained in cages separated from their parents this is the trumpet ministry sions zero tolerance policy in action opponents have likened the practice to torture the american academy of pediatrics has warned of quote irreparable harm one critic says the policy has been poorly planned many parents have no contact with their children well the government is saying there's a hotline that you can call and find out where your child is our understanding is that hotline isn't anything behind it's not working it's in english people don't know how to access it when they call nobody's answering so there's really been no thought put into this new initiative about how to ensure that a very bare minimum at least parents are aware of where their child is and they're allowed to communicate. despite bipartisan calls for an end to the policy the trump

administration is not backing down the justice department says they are simply enforcing the law a law which they blame congress for enacting we do not want to separate parents from their children you can be sure of their if we build a wall we passed some legislation we close some loopholes we will face these terrible choices the numbers for errant president donald trump has accused the democrats of refusing to come to the negotiating table to draft new laws he added the zero tolerance policy that's forcing the separation of families was introduced under his own republican administration. as each side blames the other the children in these detention centers are forced to cope with a new reality it could be months before they're reunited with their parents. or an audio rick. reading has emerged that appears to capture the cries of small

spanish speaking children being processed by u.s. immigration officials of one such center and it has only added to the growing outrage of the trumpet ministrations policy we have frederick about you know from date of you social media to us to tell us more about us how federica this is a tape that is really shaken people tell us more about it yes and the it's it's rather disturbing it's an end nearly eight minute long recording it was recorded reportedly in a u.s. border protection detention facility it was first tamed and released by the investigative news outlet proposal and they published it on monday and we're going to play a small part of that clip it does make for a rather excruciating listening. so

do features a group of central american children who are believed to be aged between four and ten years old they also appear to have just been separated just been separated from their parents we can hear distant and in great distress calling for it or their relatives to be shocking people is also what the public identified as the response of a border patrol agent who can be heard saying in a rather teasing tone we we have is on like an orchestra here and he goes on saying oh we're missing a conductor. now public eye says that they obtained this audio from a well known u.s. civil rights attorney jennifer hard. three who in her turn got it from

a whistleblower inside the facility this person wants to remain anonymous for fear fears of retaliation and i shall stress that hasn't been able to independently verify the audio what kind of reactions are we seeing this policy has been drawing can the nation from all sides about this or do you hold so it's taking the outrage to another level i would say and many are saying they could barely listen to it or couldn't handle. a lot of people saying it made them cry i had this thing it's troubling and the audio was also brought out during a press briefing of the homeland security secretary. and during that press briefing a reporter played the audio from the back of the room and then she later took to twitter and said she she played she had to play it because officials failed to adequately and truthfully answer questions about the policy. some have

questioned and decency of that video stressing that jennifer harbury the attorney who first gave it to a she has long been defending the rights of immigrants particularly from central america so some people have been saying oh she might have had an agenda and i mean as i mentioned was not able to independently verify it but what it does with the idea does appear to show pretty i mistakenly is the sound of distressed and distressed children at a very difficult clip to hear federica budget from our social media to us thank you so much for bringing us that story. after the shock arrest of its c.e.o. rupert's start yesterday german luxury carmaker audi has announced a temporary replacement but i'm sure it will take over while startler remains in custody under investigation for fraud shorter's

a member of out his board of directors way serve as head of marketing and sales to shake up started when prosecutors arrested start like concerned he was attempting to influence witnesses in the criminal investigation into the diesel initials emissions scandal. let's make a quick check on how the markets are taking all this in with only bad who's standing by in frankfurt only a brown short is he the right man for the job but why did it take so long to replace star. i don't think there's an answer to the second question i don't think anybody knows why it took so long the only answers i can think of is that the people in the supervisory board were in a disagreement over whether to fire starter and who to appoint and also how to communicate it needed in the end how to treat stadler after he was suspended we don't know that but it's possibly those reasons or a combination of those from shot interesting figure perhaps one of the things that

speaks most for his being installed now as an interim c.e.o. he's not been a dowdy very long only since last september and he's been a volkswagen since twenty twelve so he knows volkswagen but he's possibly not involved in all that yearlong years long manipulation of diesel kate so that maybe speaks for him as being a relatively outsider but he's a competent manager solid career mercedes-benz before moving to the delta and now with a clean slate talking about the other is next. and what how will that influence the ongoing emissions scandal. i read a statement by the judge a judge judicial authority is very and they say that the next state for evaluating his prison term the custody length is in six months and we also hear that he's ready to talk that he's ready to talk with his lawyer being present to authorities and depending on how volkswagen out he treats and now he may be more ready to talk

if he's treated kindly and he may be more ready to incriminate people if he's not treated kindly he's likely to know almost everything that went on he can hurt people personally and hurt the company financially if he does talk that will be very interesting to watch indeed. the whole story turns into a proper thrillist thank you very much only boston friend for the full this is this . earlier today my colleague money could joan spoke to clements president of the institute for an economic research and she asked him what the latest development means for the german car industry on the whole. it is a problem it is certainly a complete p.r. disaster but there are small behind it is it seems that there is a complete lack of strategy in the car industry about how these things should be dealt with you know how the industry wants to deal with the diesel issues and how it wants to position itself so it's really a disaster and reputation is important and this is clearly not it's not just the

damage it's not just damage to the car industry but to the entire german industrial sector claimants fus the the eve for instance to institute and the institute also finds that fears about the effects of tariffs are weighing down on the german economy research group has downgraded its growth forecast for this year from two point six to one point eight percent following similar downward projections from other bodies including the german government other sources of concern for the german economy include a shortage of skilled workers and italy's debt crisis. china has accused u.s. president donald trump of blackmail and says it will retaliate for the latest set of tariffs threatened by washington trump is targeting an additional two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports with a ten percent levy. shoppers in china might not be following every twist and turn of the trade dispute between their country and the united states but the tit for

tat spot could soon become apparent in their grocery bills these are images imported from the u.s. are among hundreds of goods beijing has voted to tax in response to a fresh threat of terror threats from washington the move makes good on china's pledge to retaliate up to the united states imposed an initial set of tires on fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods speaking in response to those levies last week time as foreign ministry had this to say. china is consistent in its downside if the united states side adopts any unilateral protectionist measures on damages china's interests we will immediately react and take necessary measures to firmly safeguard our legitimate rights and interests. of our trade but the world's two biggest economies certainly don't agree on what constitutes a legitimate interest so far analysts are still talking of

a brewing trade war but with hundreds of billions of dollars involved and talk of blackmail the battle at least appears to be well under way already. of course in australia has fined nine million australian dollars for making false claims about consumer rights several hundred customers sued the american tech giant after apple refused to repair their i phones. phones with both parties services for violating the warranty the court ruled apple cannot force customers to use its. tesla found even a mosque has one stuff that a former colleague has attempted to sabotage the company in an e-mail he said the unnamed employee had conducted extensive and damaging sabotage reprogramming those manufacturing facilities and leaking trade secrets it's just the latest in

a line of problems dogging the evil bill if he. turns to expand production of its new model three. that's all from me here at the business desk gets back to soon enough thank you get hard let's take a look now at some of the stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jong un is in beijing it is believed he is there to brief chinese president xi jinping on a summit with u.s. president donald trump china's foreign ministry said the visit would strengthen relations with north korea and promote peace in the region indonesian authorities say at least one hundred twenty eight people are missing after a ferry capsized and sank on the island of sumatra one person has been confirmed dead about twenty people have been rescued from the water the wooden boat went down on lake toba a popular tourist destination. french far right leader marine le pen has suffered a legal setback and court has upheld

a ruling that she must return three hundred thousand euros to the european parliament as she incorrectly gave the money to political aides while a member of parliament in a pen can still appeal the ruling to the highest court. you're watching news still to come our headlines at this hour rather a chance i'm going marco is seeking the help of president tomorrow macaw france as she scrambles to forge a new european migration policy medicals need is urgent her own interior minister has told her to find a solution fast or he will take action himself. and the united nations refugee agency says almost sixty nine million people will displace last year many are fleeing the war violence and persecution the agency says it's an unprecedented new record for people forced to flee their homes. are it is time to talk football our world cup update we have crossed harrington

yeah the state of new sports with us there has been one match already today it's concluded tell us about it yeah colombia and egypt and this particular match you know x. will be picked in this match but if we could take a look at the video i think we should have it we saw the first red card in the world cup right here carlos saying she is giving the record setting up. shinji kagawa bruce you do have the midfielder makes good with a penalty pretty the man but it could be we could mean pulled off a miracle and was able to equalize can tear all with a clever free kick to level the store. the second half after level score a holiday from osaka only had to be japan's a second gold this is japan's first victory of its against a south american side at the world cup so you have to give it up already i just i just. as i'm fortunate we have to we have to leave it there because we're looking at the press conference now from chancellor angela merkel and emmanuel mccall which

is just started let's listen in to what they have to say. just as you well know my view lots of audience feed they elfin dutch fun solution and this is. the german council of ministers meeting here as well and and my sense is that we've had a good day where the german and french french iran found together a shot at my going to see if the state. really opening a whole new chapter. of an initiative so for the european union but also for german french cooperation because much of what we have decided to you we're going to further work with our colleagues in the european union. and we need to find the responses and this is something that drives us as well we want to have to find its place in and multilateral world we want to play its role when it comes to defending values and conviction this preserving prosperity more peace in the world and

preserving our environment this is why this was a day that covered a lot of ground our environment ministers met for a dialogue on the climate and we'll have a discussion as evening with trade and industry representatives and the president of the european commission so in symbolic terms we're showing that we are not just working for ourselves but rather in the spirit of you of human and there were four issues that we thought about that are part of the maze the declaration and many of these responses are one. you have waited for but i think that it's been worth the wait firstly we need to ensure that we have better capacity around our foreign policy defense policy security policy and to speak more with one voice which is why we want to have more structured cooperation in defense policy and add the european intervention initiative and we want to coordinate these and link these

as closely as possible which would mean that we need to have a common strategic culture not just in terms of developing the defense systems which will be part of our cooperation but rather. when it comes to supporting our troops and deploying these and that's what steps are so we want to have new tools around foreign policy. we want to make sure that we don't always have wait for absolute consensus that we have a concept where you have security council and that's. common when you're up here with the foreign and security policy something that needs to come up with responses telling every world why it's and another issue. is very much is the question of migratory of the lowest we see this as a common challenge they face yes one which first and foremost we have to look at

how we can combat the causes that drive people to leave their homes so this means peace. in order regions such as syria or ukraine with the mindset first but it also doing as development cooperation for the countries of africa. and when you are in favor of having a coordinated approach a european approach would be very common all the best option but this seems to be quite difficult this is why we can look at cooperate in your digital countries because on a remains a european response to the challenges. we were. prevented by circus by being further divided but rather to work to find common responses we supported through one of the plans of the commission and the austrian and council presidency to strengthen. security at our external borders which means ensuring that front tax has its moments of fire more people we are against come back to you know

the con those who are fleeing their homes are fleeing the war with. this we want to encourage them but not secondary migration and we need to ensure that all of the countries in the shang and region if there. is a uniform and that we ensure that the states that are affected get support all we want. on the basis of solidarity among member states and i'm very grateful to france for the cooperation commitments they are made in the issues that we are dealing with here and i spoke with the time prime minister and i know in my car. with last week the italian position is naturally one that will feed into our continuations because italy through its proximity to libya is impacted on particularly and for this i'm very grateful to the french president for the initiative that he has taken here regarding italy but regarding the entire

political process the strengthening the situation there and the holding elections etc then the whole question of the i cannot give monetary union this work was perhaps the most complex between us but i think we can say that we found a good solution. in advocating a euro budget was falling off which should come into force parallel to the medium term financial forecasts. and will be taken for there are two words a european monitor. we fund this so that we have an additional tool for stabilization in the short term instabilities and liquidity problems of individual member states. that we will also be pushing for the euro zone budget to be child's fly right. to the means of strengthening investment to bring about a convergence within the eurozone and to strangle this convergence because we know

that economic and monetary union can only really hold together if a european policies converge so it's important that germany and france work on a basis for the corporate tax systems but one that we encourage and help other member states to achieve convergence because it is not we're going to be in the euro zone. we've come up with some proposals to make the banking sector more watertight and i want to thank all our shots and want to let me out of finance ministers who have spent hours and hours of consultations and looking at how best to achieve real progress here for taking our economic among trade union for there and also we're going to lead the bank you know. and i think this is the right time because on thursday i hope we'll manage to achieve to make the next step with greece and then all countries will be out of this program and so the time is here. for help the eurozone will be better protected against crises and we think

that our proposals will be a good step towards achieving this with the e.u. summit which will be. with you cancelled i think this week you know we know that we've still got a lot of work ahead. banking union has a lot of risks that have to be reduced but we're looking at what he steps need to take with us and we'll have to tweak the s. and treaty so we're willing to do that just to ensure that the eurozone is more sound and the. and then there's the capital market you need which will be perhaps the third pillar of ensuring your security you have of us here we need to be competitive otherwise we will not be able to preserve prosperity for the citizens of your moving forward and there are all manner of german french proposals that we've come up with here at the moment in sofia at the informal european

council we met and talked about agency of disruptive technologies that germany and france will be pushing for a network of european universities. and that we are prepared to work together in an agency for artificial intelligence or perhaps the biggest challenge facing us in europe in this regard to. be. general. against. the data protection directive is just one aspect because. we are single market we need to ensure that we can really hold our ground against global players like china and the us. and we are working for institutional reform as well both of us believe that it is necessary to have the opportunity to have here a commission. to streamline i agree with the idea that in my my columns as nick said to say that the big countries have to do without their people first we're prepared

to do this if we are willing to streamline a bit and to come up with trans national exists in you know european elections twenty twenty four which will i had seen again i did a list of candidates who we've had so far so you see it we've reached a lot of agreements here i can't go through all of them out but the news about declaration be soon to be made available to you when we believe this is no porton step that we have made here for you up and that we have a great deal of work ahead of us we. i often said as that's a deadline i said by the end of twenty eighteen we want to have concrete results because we want to have a new model and to go into the european elections with this so that really tells us it is where we are headed in the years to come and this is why there's still a great deal of work to be done but i want to say thank you very much for the wonderful cooperation that we have had and i think i do safely state that we have made

a step in the right direction. by the thank you very much. chancellor. or the organization of the french you german council of ministers and there's a meeting here at the maze of burke and also the results that we have achieved. i think we have no finally achieved a meeting in the best sense of the. we are certainly. for a crucial period in the history of europe and of the european union as far as economic commercial financial issues are concerned and the foreign policy very defense policy and migration issues. today this is a clear decision that i will decide is have to take probably also a civil us authorities assertion on the one hand there are those who enjoy one to

say you. europe has no longer any responses for two of these challenges and on the other hand those and i think we are to be considered amongst those that we need to or was staying in europe to become more united and more sovereign because both in migration policy and economic policy the challenges that we are faced with today is that we need to strengthen our capacity to protect our citizens from the the cities that come from outside we need to protect them against the. risks off of foreign policies and we need to strengthen solitude and solidarity amongst ourselves that's the hope in which we believe it now all this set of issues and i think today's discussion have made it clear that we have reached a joint decision we want taken action that allows us to

respond to this situation to take up the responsibility of history and we want to work with more efficient you as to the issues of geopolitics defense and migration well we first need to know how can we defend and protect better our europe are in face of the international challenges i call him if you today we have the issue of migration and this. affects every day life of our citizens it's certainly international issues if you might seem remote dishes but this affects our own citizens this is not just a dramatic diplomatic issue. regarding these issues well if the decisions that are to be have taken and we have to reaffirm. we need more sovereignty and more he will need to hear that. something very have settled on we need more

coordination. along the lines that we need to work out in our common security and foreign policy at a european level. what has fed in the last few months. and what has strengthened our defense policy of we need to strengthen corporation tax structure cooperation we need also european funds we have completed with several of our colleagues. by in european intervention initiatives which will. to coordinate a better intervention dr eames as we say it will also enable us from next week to bring our strategic cultures closer to the third we will be able to have a joint programming of our military forces so a more programmatic approach this has united and. on the

team for july we will. have office out in concrete terms so our terrestrial in a combat forces will be caught and we better also our aerial. defense with our aircraft of the future this is an outstanding important issue i think. with the same determination we firmly believe a european reaction to the migration challenge. we are not the first ones to detect these challenges last week no but we are. we are all very determined in our us effort to act in a coordinated manner with our german friends with you who together with us have common is. to manage. and suddenly also at a european level and this means all the. member states we want to continue to work

closely together to probably make a suggest friends around three axis the chancellor has already reminded of the first action and we have. mentioned this also with all italian friends with prime minister of spain on saturday we want to work closer together with the countries of origin and through countries of transit and. this is simple in no means anything new we have seen this over the last few years and especially in the last month. several other countries in northern africa especially with libya this is an axis of step below is a show that we have established with libya oh and the money that both formalized in the next days especially when it comes to the libyan floors guided by. we want to cut here illegal

pathways and we want also to establish a good financial structure to your cooperation we want to prevent these incoming flights is better in a more humanitarian way because of a human hair and a risk. the risk threatens also to create. diversions of the second we want also better protection of europe in both us and we so called the suggestions. by the european commission is especially when it comes to strengthen the funds given to front it takes then we need more so hawt outside the european union in the border police needs to be strengthened to want to have a european. agency that works in harmony where all

member states are we have also strengthened our determination to be strengthening solidarity and responsibility within the european union or with the registration of the arriving and also a quick examination of the asylum request and also a firm stance on those who have a not received any right to stay and we want to discuss this in concrete terms at the coming european cars. summit the one to review of the dublin regulation which is also a project on which we have common view was. far as this issue is concerned meaning need to certainly have more sovereignty we need to have more capacity to protect our common border lines but we need also a mechanism of solidarity outside our borders and also inside our borders and

that's what i mean this is exactly the same philosophy that has a perforated of our discussions when it comes to economy looking at the euro zone economy well what's missing is solid dairy and. we are pushed around by the decisions but unilateral decisions of our american allies in a commercial policy we. are far from home. we are still in need of hers settling our crisis of two thousand and eighteen and. via need to muster more unity we need more sovereignty more unity sovereignty and this is not just a reply but we need to a more coordinated approach in commercial financial policy and we have strengthened . just this to be. we need to act and act with

clarity and we have worked together with our colleagues to establish a mechanism that allows us to strengthen our economic financial and political news in view of this new economic situation to safeguard our own interests and to respond to certain attitudes. but that's also what we have one for the eurozone. we. turn now the second phase. off the life of our common currency well it's regularly. wanted to create an attorney if we need to be clear to be frank about this we have not really reached his objective to have a. dollar nor have sufficient unity to withstand those stocks that have prevailed in the economy that's why we have say today this

is a major agreement and i would like to thank the finest minister. with who we had various discussions and he has presented us with a very ambitious text together with the chancellor we have to advance a new chapter to open a new chapter of the euro zone in our common organization we are going to burgle the next days and weeks together with our partners in the euro zone we are going to come to lead those in the next months. concerning various objectives and we want to use several of those first these stability object. and the chancellor merkel has reminded us of this we need to review our tools or. if any country has to withstand

a shock an asymmetric shock we need. the mechanism or also a robust fine and full support mechanism and the solidarity mechanism so we have two sided to present a proposal for progress in this direction and you find then you will and we also together desire to present this for a new network of security called backstop in english and we won good. to be able to yak in due course of time as established by the ministers to provide more financial stability well through all of this your opinion stability mechanism and there is. a safety network that we are going through established we want to act in a credible way against all possible shocks and financial stocks together in the

euro zone and we are going to continue this road well. this is certainly in view of what has happened in the last month has made sure are a step forward and we want to be able to settle crisis and new problems in a much quicker way finally we are also united in the world to create a europe budget with invest learned to mechanism within the euro zone this will be a true budget with. annual budgets and new spending mechanisms and. the european commission well managed this we have to work together with our partners on the issues of the rhythms with which we want to take on these charges and. as madam shallots lawyer has just

said with. very establishment of this new budget. we want to work together from two thousand and twenty one as to the completion of the banking union of this reform of the european stability mechanism and with the maker economics. tools well these are important reforms and we have worked on them intensely together this is a political commitment that we undertake together this. all so require technical into ministerial burka until the end of the year fight after that and certainly in the following year we need also changes in the treaty that need to be streamlined and adjusted to this new policy then the european stability mechanism needs to be. equipped with and budget from

twenty twenty one and we also need to find common ground on the calm.