over to max hoffman now brussels correspondent to talk about is love affair or i don't know how much love there is anymore max it sounds like house is down on one neighborhood maze just not interested it seems like maze not interested at least that was the official word they shot that one right down but you never know what the developments will be to sca said this repeatedly in the past is that there is a way back until the twenty ninth of march where we know two thousand eight hundred so two thousand nine hundred a little more than a year but once this date has passed that's when everything is closed all doors are closed even to the heart of the no two. is tusk the only one down on one eight. i don't know if you'll go the president of the e.u. commission took up that quote but on this right away here in strasbourg at the e.u. parliament and he's not the only one nigel farage also did so which is of course a little bit well bizarre because nigel farage was the one who really was in favor of a brags of with his you could party the party that initiated the whole process you could say bu

max hoffman is in brussels tonight. what did you make of president macro and his call for action? max: it is wide arching, from details, which he has a pretty good grasp on, to his vision for europe. his speech was strongest when he talked about those visions, saying that the framework for a new world order had to be multilateral and cooperatiove, and that europeans have the tools in hand for answers to the most pressing questions. they just have to decide to make use of them and decide that in the near future. brent: and simon, at the top of the show i did reference to these two leaders. were they singing from the same hymn sheet? simon: not literally, of course. merkel sticks to german on these occasions, but the broad line of what they were saying about reenergizing the european project, merkel was a little bit less detailed than her french counterpart. perhaps that's exploilicable, given that she does not want to put off social democrats. but merkel really drew together the lines about security policy, foreign policy, doing something to improve the condition in africa, combatin

brussels correspondent max hoffman looks at what's at stake.e three have big plans for two thousand and eighty especially regarding migration. the reform of the euro zone and of course brics. to the european union. to. the e.u. institutions see a window of opportunity to resolve many of europe's most pressing problems but the window of opportunity might not be as large as many people are hoping for and that's mainly due to that woman that you can see behind the flags of the german chancellor. in many ways she's still the queen of europe of course but as long as she doesn't have a governing coalition in berlin her hands are pretty much tied to. the man who's blowing wind into the sails of a reformed european union is french president michel going to let these given many speeches express many ideas and grand visions for two thousand and eighteen and beyond the critically one of them establishing a real european monetary fund to support countries that need help to avoid bankruptcy like greece in thousand two. and ten. another one giving the eurozo

and iran max hoffman joins us from brussels it's feared max that president trump might pull the plug on the iranian nuclear deal if he does what can the europeans and the iranians do to salvage it. and the europeans are very anxious about that as well that's why the main message coming out of this meeting today is will be a clear we think this is extremely important this whole nuclear deal the german foreign minister. even said this was one of the central pillars of european security and it was also something that managed the contained even more crisis or another crisis in the middle east but you have to be clear about that if the the americans no longer are part of that deal it's very hard to convince iran to continue complying with that deal if one of the main part is if not the most important partner aside from iran just quits that deal and by the way the europeans are not the only ones who think this deal is very important the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had this to say about it. will continue to defend the viability of this program and its major importance in securing

that's max hoffman reporting for us from outside the elusive palace there in paris thank you max well chancellor merkel's political fate could be decided this weekend and not by the voters or even by your own party but by her potential coalition partners on sunday the leader of the social democrats martin scholz will try to convince a special party conference that they should enter coalition talks with meryl and her conservatives a no vote would mean either a minority government or fresh elections here in germany. these three leaders want to join forces and form a government but it's a nervous affair none of them know whether this man will win the backing off his party the social democrats in particular the s.t.'s youth wing has strong reservations about joining another grand coalition. we reject a renewed grand coalition because we're convinced it wouldn't be right for democracy in germany and we consider it a negligent to let the far right have to become the leading opposition party want to talk to and recent days party leader martin shows has been touring the country lobbying for a

max hoffman has been following the story for us he joins us from strasburg hi max. has been laying out essential his vision for europe what more did he have to say. you know sometimes it's hard in the european union not to lose yourself in all the details there's so much going on so many different realities it's very bureaucratic so really to see the value of the european union sometimes you need to take take a step back and look at the whole construction and that's exactly what the overall prime minister of ireland tried to do he said look in the global context we are a union of small countries because if you look at the lists with the largest cities the largest countries virtually none of them are european and that's how he tried to explain the value of the european union why it is so important to be together to really punch above its weight and then he also stressed something that for many european countries isn't that important anymore or at least it's not at the forefront of what people are thinking about in those countries anymore and that is the peace value t

promote any positive signals that there are there she drew it all together and that's important max hoffman buckle is this this part about about president focused being of france he talked about the need to boost the french economy and being competitive within europe was that perhaps a with a france first there. well it draws on patriotism a little bit especially when he says france is back but i would say it's a completely different ballgame because he also insisted all the time like i said earlier successful friends only within the framework of a successful european union and he said that that was actually quite funny if you know the french people a little bit he criticized his own people and not just you know what had been done in the past although he said for years and years the message rule was to the citizens i will protect you from change but sometimes he says we need to accelerate change for to get things towards the better and you also said in the past you weren't allowed to fail in france but you weren't allowed to succeed either so those are clear criticisms about how people perc

from the let's join max hoffman in paris welcome max standing there in the cold. what do these two leaders want. it's not that caulfield and of course as you know that medical and i call probably the most beautiful friendship in the european union is about to take shape here than it's heartwarming to go i'm only joking the two have a lot to talk about of course for example medical hasn't been about in europe as much as she used to be even because of course you know she's caught up with coalition talks in germany and i'm michael has been quite the opposite just returning from a meeting from a summit with the british prime minister three so many so that's something they could talk about but you said it earlier the prime goal here is to get the german french and german really humming again and that requires a show unity that's why we're hearing they're talking about a new version of the famous easy treaty that's the treaty that was born fifty five years ago and basically the foundation for all or for a lot of cooperation between the germans and the french it was foun

max hoffman for us here in strasbourg max thank you very much. now at home in austria he governs in a coalition with the far right party today sebastian cortes austria's new chancellor is in berlin for talks with america is anti immigration euro skeptic stance clashes with the german chancellor courts has been a vocal critic of michael's open door policy but the two will try to find common ground on the protection of the u.s. borders ahead of his trip to berlin quite stressed that germany is an important partner for syria. temper business with monica and the ops and downs of bitcoin yeah and right now it's down sue me cryptocurrency bitcoin has been in a freefall in the last twenty four hours by the end of last year it was trading close to fourteen thousand u.s. dollars now let's remember that at the beginning of twenty seventeen bitcoin was valued under one thousand dollars but it made huge gains in the second half of twenty seventeen the cryptocurrency soared especially after trading a bit confused as began on the chicago mercantile exchange la

max hoffman are covering this debate at the new parliament in strasbourg for us today thank you max well later today british m.p.'s will hold a key vote on legislation allowing britain to leave the european union the brags that bilis faced fierce opposition in the house of commons and if it passes could have an even tougher time in the house of lords just last month prime minister theresa may was forced to amend the draft law after a rebellion and her conservative party one of the twenty five tory parties most ardent to break that supporters is so well a fernandas the latest stop in our series road to brag that you caught up with that british member of parliament and asked her why she's such a fervent advocate for leaving the e.u. . the e.u. is worried about the strength of britain's position and as a result they are probably more defensive than they need to be. my name is sue elephant and i'm a conservative member of the u.k. parliament. means opportunity. and restoring democracy to the british. we're right in the middle of the e.u. withdrawal bill that's a piece of legislation which is

breck's in our d w series this week of what twenty eighteen has a store or brussels correspondent max hoffman looks at what is at stake for the. these three have big plans for two thousand and eighteen especially regarding migration. the reform of the euro zone and of course brics. thing to see if they can be stopped and looked at. the e.u. institutions see a window of opportunity to resolve many of europe's most pressing problems but the window of opportunity might not be as large as many people are hoping for and that's mainly due to that woman that you can see behind the flags the german chancellor are going to back in many ways she's still the queen of europe of course but as long as she doesn't have a governing coalition in berlin her hands are pretty much tied to. the man who's blowing wind into the sails of a reformed european union is french president michel going to fit in and he's given many speeches and express many ideas and grand visions for two thousand and eighteen and beyond the critically one of them establishing a real european monetary fund to support countries that need he

that was max hoffman reporting earlier from paris here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world community court has sentenced the man who sold a pistol to the shooter in the city's twenty sixteen mass shooting the man known only as philip k. was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter he's been sentenced seven years in prison he admitted selling the weapon to the eighteen year old gunman who killed nine people before turning the weapon on himself. here in germany clean up work is underway in the wake of the worst storm to hit northern europe in a decade hurricane frederick that killed at least twelve people eight of them in germany insurers here estimate the storm caused some five hundred million euros worth of damage the husband of german journalist mashallah tolu has been rearrested in turkey just weeks after he and his wife were released from pretrial detention so our core low is a journalist and activist whose father in law has confirmed he has been taken into custody his wife face charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. turkish fo

let's see how they're getting on max out hoffman in paris so welcome max what do these two leaders want. well the most important piece of news that came out of the press conference held here by macular micro is probably that now it's official they want a second ellie's a treaty the first of these a treaty having reached fifty five years of age and being the foundation basically for many ways of cooperating between the two countries and therefore a symbol of peace and also friendship between the two countries and they want a new one that is adapted to the twenty first century so both macro and micro confirmed that but at the same time of course they also talked about the challenges of what we call the reform of the european union you just mentioned two of those challenges but the german chancellor also insisted that this would include a defense cooperation even maybe a defense union and securing for example the external borders against illegal migration into the european union ok so that's sus some of what they want and whether they disagree. it's hard to say because both try to hide any

max hoffman is covering the story for us in brussels max if president trump does re impose sanctions on iran can the europeans and the iranians do anything to salvage the nuclear agreement. the europeans said that they would stick with the agreement no matter what but if you look at the power and the power play that's going on of course the united states side from iran are the most important partner and there would be a whole lot less incentive for the iranians to stick with that deal of course the europeans could say this is this is good for business this deal as long as we can do business with you it's in your interest to keep the deal but the fact of the matter is that if the trump administration really imposes sanctions on those companies that do business with iran that would also affect european countries and that would slow down business again so there really isn't a win win situation here where only europe and iran keep this deal up so there's the nuclear agreement that's being discussed there in brussels today but there's more at play in iran right now german foreign minister

max hoffman is covering the story for us in brussels max if president trial does free impose sanctions on iran can the europeans and the iranians do anything to salvage the nuclear agreement. the european said that they would stick with the agreement no matter what but if you look at the power and the power play that's going on of course the united states side from iran are the most important partner and there would be a whole lot less incentive for the iranians to stick with that deal of course the europeans could say this is this is good for business this deal as long as we can do business with you it's in your interest to keep the deal but the fact of the matter is that if the trump administration really imposes sanctions on those companies that do business with iran that would also affect european countries and that would slow down business again so there really isn't a win win situation here where only europe and iran keep this deal up so there's the nuclear agreement that's being discussed there in brussels today but there's more at play in iran right now german foreign minister

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