on a great credit cowan bauer who already took over for america as leader of the conservative c.d.u. party in a column of her own krakow and our agreed on the need to strengthen the e.u. she backs mccrone proposal to process asylum claims that the e.u. has extra no borders but she came out against an e.u. wide minimum wage and she has little interest in a common euro zone budget her points are coming under fire especially from the social democrats to see the use coalition partner. we'd like to see more boldness in this debate aiming for a european minimum wage was part of our coalition agreement and we're sticking to that. view no fest america is facing criticism for not being the one to lay out germany's position but in a press conference today she framed the issue as a matter of politics not policy. i think it's very good that i think they've come as head of the c.d.u. posse has stated the c.d.'s position for the upcoming european parliamentary elections. in via come from. but without agreement in the government the french president may have to wait for germany's position which mccrone h

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served the powerful chancellor helmut kohl and says environment minister when kohl stepped down and c.d.u. party chair following a scandal machall took the reins of power and in two thousand and five became german chancellor she's enjoyed international influence ever since. two recent may also stepped into the breach when a man failed british prime minister david cameron initiated and lost the back seat referendum and resigned may took over the office in two thousand and sixteen although many opposed by accident first she still had to manage her country's exit from the e.u. . after sexual assault allegations ousted then i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn christine legarde stepped into the breach for the past eight years she has steered the i.m.f. with a competent steady hand she's maintained a clear position including donald trump can it be that women only get to positions of power after men have found. some sort of i would you like to pick up on that question. it's interesting because there's no doubt that these women didn't necessarily come at a high time in their various countries situations

well we can all speak to david mcallister from chancellor merkel's conservative c.d.u. party he is a member of the european parliament and he joins us from stress or mr mcallister thank you very much for joining us first off we should say that you are a german m.e.p. but you were also half scottish witnessing the chaos of the last few days in the british parliament i think it's safe to say it is an precedented what do you make of it. well this is all unprecedented perhaps it's even unbelievable grotesque or bizarre but anyhow we take note of all the decisions in the house of commons the one on tuesday evening the one yesterday evening and now we're waiting for the next decision today and then we will make up of wind one thing is clear if you are determined to leave the european union that are two options you either leave the european union on the basis of a withdrawal agreement or you leave the utopian union without an agreement these are the two options and this is what the house of commons will have to decide we negotiated the withdrawal agreement eighteen months with the u

c.d.u. leader and a good outcome did agree with president macro when it came to security but on a lot else members of a christian democratic union party are also critical of the plan i'm quite amazed that on. good come the new cd you're skeptical because normally german leaders always follow the french leaders of germany thought that would be part of the german reason of state but apparently it's not anymore than you can see in this the turmoil and the the change in europe the pressure by the people and democratic change has probably brought the party leader to present position ourselves slightly more skeptical of new french plans and france is failing and this you in some ways is feeling the timing of the release of crohn's plan hasn't helped the french president either it's come out just before european parliamentary elections in which it's expected euro skeptic parties will make pretty decent gains and while he hasn't got the support of key allies within the european union dream of a new european renascence may well remain just a dream peter all of it. still to come violence in venezuela after the self-proclaimed interim president