threat because it's really embarrassing for the european union not to be able to move forward with its badgettand with the coverage recovery fund money that it's badly needed by countries like spain and italy who were hardest hit by the pandemic so germany has presented this compromise a sort of legal declaration that should provide more clarity about the rule of law a mechanism and how it's going to work and one important point here is that this mechanism according to to the paper a compromise paper would not go into action before the highest court has ruled about it we know that hungry in poland are saying that the whole thing is against the law and they will be given a chance to to see that the case so we'll see if all the alva 25 members of the european union will be ok with this compromise and will approve this today or tomorrow. in brussels thanks so much alexandra. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour u.s. president elect joe biden has nominated retired army general lloyd austin to be his defense secretary if confirmed he would be

badgett over plans to link fence to respecting the rule of law other leaders criticized them for jeopardizing the european union because a lot was at stake to be precise 1.8 trillion euros roughly one trillion for the next 7 year budget and a 750000000000 gear of yes q fund to help breathe life into the virus hit economy. but just in time for dinner a compromise table by german chancellor angela merkel seemed to do the trick the deal is not without controversy the changes could see real floor proceedings to light by year's end until after the next election but it seems this was a concession that had to be made to underdog desperately needed funds before christmas and here in germany the latest coronavirus numbers show a dramatic spike in new cases over the past day the country has hit a new high nearly 30000 cases and 598 people have died the highers daily yet weeks of partial lockdown haven't slowed the spread of infection enough much tougher restrictions the most inevitable now with political momentum building for a harder law down over the holidays. with only 2 weeks to go until christmas

to keep the polish prime minister and hungary switched to oban had threatened to veto the entire badgett over plans to link fence to respecting the rule of law all other leaders criticized them for jeopardizing the european union because a lot was at stake to be precise 1.8 trillion euros roughly one trillion for the next 7 year budget and a 750000000000 euro rescue fund to help breathe life into the virus hit economy. but just in time for dinner a compromise table by german chancellor angela merkel seemed to do the trick the deal is not without controversy the changes could see real floor proceedings to late by years in the to obama's case until after the next election but it seems this was a concession that had to be made desperately needed funds before christmas so alexandra de deadlock is at long last finally over but at some potential significant cost. what results could we have as a result of this compromise. well this as we just saw in the report can be that the mechanism will be delayed maybe a few months maybe a year and but we can expect that that mechanism for the 1st time the