a union of common values and this includes democracy the rule of law just to name two david mcallister talking to us thank you very much and phil with that we go back to you to berlin. and strasburg fact here. this is years from. now and a stern warning for it's only coming from none other than the international monetary fund it's warned. off budget twenty nineteen say it heavy its heavy spending rather carried substantial risks and could lead to market more oil well the comments came hours before an e.u. imposed deadline for its need to submit a new draft budget brussels rejected very initial plan which would deficit spending at two point four percent of the country's g.d.p. italy is so fossett it will not change its plans arguing it must bend to pray state's economy invest a consensus of the showdown have led to a rise in borrowing costs. well our own going conflict between rome and brussels is a big concern because italy is not just any economy is the euro zone's third

it limited but did have his box hoffman is out the european parliament in strasburg welcome max so we saw that and heard enthusiastic applause and heckling for this idea of a european army it's not a new idea so why the extreme reactions. it's not a new idea but it's the first time that the german chancellor put her weight fully behind it but you know we should talk to somebody who's really involved with this and that's david mcallister who's standing next to me who is also the head of the foreign affairs committee of the european parliament and of course a member of the european peoples party which is the party of angela merkel still mr mcallister were you surprised that i'm going to put her full weight behind european army here no i wasn't surprised i would like to commend the chance to have to say today because she made very clear that she supports our policy in the european parliament that we are calling for a closer cooperation on foreign affairs on security and on defense and...