blocks response to the economic impact while ruling out the idea of joint debt in the form of corona vaughn's macko said jenny is ready to make significantly higher contributions to the e.u. budget. all of our national efforts could only succeed if we are also successful in europe you've often heard me say in this house that in the long run germany could only flourish if europe is also in good shape. and of. european solidarity in health policy the sofa being germany's focus more than 200 patients from france italy and the netherlands are being cared for in germany intensive care units but with the true economic impact of current virus still unknown pressure is growing on europe's economic powerhouse to loosen its purse strings. let's bring in our chief political editor for more we heard the chancellor criticizing the easing of restrictions in germany what exactly are her concerns. her concern is that the small victories that many have succeeded so far over the virus not to see its own health service stretched to the limits could now be lost if the easing of restrictions means that people fee

countries an extra financial boost to contain unemployment in the depth of this crisis now the word corona vaughn's has emerged i expect there to be intense debates with germany in the netherlands leading the north and spain italy and france speaking for the south it's this old standoff what solidarity in europe actually means and whether it could mean standing in for each other's debt in the future also to stabilize the euro now there are signs that there might be a potential compromise it's a proposal for put forward by spain that would see the e.u. budget for the 1st time securing such loans actually providing financial backing there and what we do know for sure is that germany's pushing for and willing to pay for a much larger budget with that budget for the next couple of years being discussed but francaise all of this can't really be resolved without at least one physical meeting of e.u. leaders if you look at berlin thank you very much for that. and of course there would be live coverage in under an american is expected to begin as speech meanwhile let's have a look at some other coronavirus

italian debts that's what those 2 countries really want they want what's called euro bonds or corona vaughn's as it was a guarantee of that debts to allow them to fight corona and also not worry about huge debt repayments and that sort of thing that's what's still being worked on the german government has indicated it is prepared to move to in a certain way but the question remains will there be enough movement to find something more substantial which can really help these those 2 countries i mentioned it's early in spain there is a suggestion from the german finance minister that maybe that maybe some movement with all the east that we can see which is the coast this weekend but we wait to see what will happen in brussels all right that's the view from but i'm going to kind thanks very much appreciated. well spain has announced more than 750 people have died in the past 24 hours with new infections also on the rise the number of fatalities has been increasing again in recent days spain is one of the worst affected countries in the world with more than 146000 confirmed cases a french military

corona bottles. the german governments has really resisted the idea of europe barnes' floor of very considerable period of time much of the last decades really didn't want to provide your own vaughn's the feeling in germany being that perhaps the tax payers in germany would be resistant to guarantee that debts accrued by of the european countries who perhaps hadn't being sexist through will as germany had been what's happening now is the government here is expressing its solidarity hole the plight of the e.u. member states specifically spain italy but of those 2 so the foreign minister mohsen the finance minister all that shots but from the same policy the social democrat policy of britain and also kill again a series of leading newspapers around continental europe inside the euro zone where they say germany needs to step up germany wants to express solidarity not just by helping out in the pell cannot just by helping out by them seeing patients who have severe coronavirus sometimes but also financially they're saying that the european stability mechanism which is a mechanism that's been in place in much of the pos decades to help countries that need urgent loans right now well the