e.u. finance ministers meeting and so if you have felt to reach a consensus on the introduction of a three percent levy on digital sales last month the european commission on.

e.u. finance ministers meeting in sofia have felt to reach a consensus on the introduction of a three percentlevy on digital sales last month the european commission on.

e.u. finance ministers meeting in sofia have felt to reach a consensus on the introduction of a three percent levy on digital sales last month the european commission on.

is his vision of the future of europe sustainable a budget for the eurozone plus its own finance minister is the e.u. on the way it's become a new super state and who's going to foot the bill. the fight for survival how the deadly verona destructive might is threatening be populations around the world. but first this developing story german police have detained a top executive in a probe into the diesel emissions cheating scandal and who's agency here says porsche c.e.o. all of a bloomin phone the workforce of the arrest a number of german media have named the executive as the man in charge of portia's engine division when this scandal broke in twenty fifty earlier i discussed the arrest with our financial correspondent. yes indeed this is getting a really serious were that this week rates were taking place a different course she premises and bavarian also and biden verdun back and for the first time in the desert gate scandal also active board members who are part of the investigation now various german media outlets are reporting all of this and we have to say have not has not been yet court affir

e.u. steel and alimony m we've got the analysis also coming up. euro zone finance ministers say the end to greece's multi-billion bailout program is in sight of the country's got plenty of work to do and amazing amazon the company doubled its first quarter profits. also coming up breathing the best hand is the key to finding success in ethiopia. and under winter and this is your business update. germany is a major export nation and that's why trade issues were high on the agenda on friday when angela merkel met donald trump especially u.s. import tariffs they'd have a huge implication on a variety of industry sectors including the car industry here's what's at stake for the german economy and only seventy german companies are sold goods to the u.s. worth almost one hundred twelve billion euros mainly cars machinery and pharmaceutical products in the opposite direction the u.s. has sold goods worth about sixty one billion euros to germany mainly computer technology pharmaceutical products and vehicles now that created a trade deficit of around fifty billion euros a

e.u. you know they promised to finance the projects but unfortunately. as we all know. there being only promising and they promised as much as three billion euros but so far we've received nothing at all if we receive that money or. are determined to continue investing in this region because we must help the people of syria we must help the refugees because of the military operation. and if green. has received orders from iran from russia you know the more ministries hads of intelligence and military services have been actively engaged in making that operation a success. helping people. on the ground. we are laying down the foundation of peace. summit talks in sochi the second it's. been happening here and the first one will take place in teheran. i don't have. dates agreed upon but we will be preparing these are for that summit anyway take place sometimes in the future now to take your medicine than yours with your so it shows through.

e.u. is to being granted that permanent tariff exemption. we're hearing it's still difficult. shoals the german finance minister and vice chancellor said he was optimistic that a solution could be found that would be up. permanent exemption for the europeans from those tariffs today he sounded a bit more cautious again saying he didn't know if that would happen by the time the temporary exceptions run out at the end of april so we don't know simply what's going on talks on the way you mentioned the chance of the she would come to washington next week also french president mccrum will be here next week and what the europeans tried to point out all the time is this is an issue where europe is united of course because trade is the affair of the e.u. and they make this point to the american counterparts and all of shoals told us today he had the impression that his american counterparts were understanding that this was the case now at the i.m.f. chief christine that god has been speaking she's pointed to strong global growth but she has warned of course that trade tensions could hurt the global economy in

have its own budget to be administered by its own finance minister he also wants higher taxes for internet companies and accelerate the introduction of e.u. wide intellectual property law. and i phone did in your reform of the economic and monetary union as an indispensable third front before the end of this european parliament's term finding a roadmap for moving forward on the banking union a fiscal capacity to promote stability in convergence in the euro area but as you know. only last year mccollum was given a standing ovation for a similar speech at the soul bone university in paris this time the applause was more modest because the netherlands island on six other northern countries reject his reform plans they don't want their voters hard and taxes to be poured into any new fangled euro zone budget michael knows his plans only have any hope of success with germany's backing in berlin on thursday he repeated his hopes for euro zone reform. you see does it in the city don't need more solidarity in the currency union. no currency union can survive without an element of convergence because it needs instruments of adjustment and alignmen

e.u. is to be granted the permanent tariff exemption. well we're hearing that it's still difficult yes they all off shoulders the german finance minister and vice chancellor said he was optimistic that a solution could be found that there would be a permanent exemption for the europeans from those tariffs today he sounded a bit more cautious again saying he didn't know if that would happen by the time the temporary exceptions run olive at the end of april so we don't know simply what's going on talks on the way you mentioned the chance of the she would come to washington next week also french president mccrone will be here next week and what the europeans tried to point out all the time is this is an issue where europe is united of course because trade is the affair of the e.u. and they make this point to the american counterparts and all of shoals told us today he had the impression that his american counterparts were understanding that this was the case now at the i.m.f. chief christine that god has been speaking she's pointed to strong global growth that she has warned of course that trade tensions could hurt the global economy in the l

e.u. but only until the first of may and what was life was happen there. we simply don't know the german finance minister and vice chancellor on upshaw's was here in washington last week he talked to vice president pens and the economic advisor to mr trump larry could low and he seemed sort of a mistake but he also said i don't know if this is going to work out mr mccraw is at a meeting with donald trump and some of his cabinet members just a few minutes ago also pointed out that france as one of the representatives of the european union was very much interested in a solution here. also point out i guess on friday so once again here germany and france working as a tag team to convince the americans. to give the europeans this indefinite exemptions from those tariffs now waiting for this press conference between u.s. president donald trump and france's emmanuel michel to begin as you speak accustomed while watching a box by the side of your head the room is empty at the moment so you've mentioned a couple of times the fact that germany's chancellor is coming friday i can i'm going to expect as wa

a particular focus will be on finance minister orloff sold his new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests that may is a back nato secretary general shelton back commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment or force the digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. and joining us now from his burghers did abuse chief political editor michelle acuff michelle what are you hearing right now. well certainly there was a lot to smooth over and what we're hearing is that it was in the end of bunch of professionals getting together to discuss the way ahead although one does how much more mapping out does this government mean they have one hundred seventy seven pages of coalition agreement to go through and to work down but the big question of course is how those forty six a billion or so heroes will be divided and will eat into the budget now we're due to hear from the finance minister who is from the social democrat par

budget which would be administered by its own finance minister he also wants to levy higher taxes on internet companies and accelerate the introduction of e.u. wide intellectual property law that i phone didn't you know the reform of the economic and monetary union as an indispensable third front before the end of this european parliament term defining a roadmap for moving forward on the banking union and a fiscal compact city to promote stability and convergence in the euro area. only last year mark kong was given a standing ovation for a similar speech at the sorbonne university in paris this time the applause was more modest that's because the netherlands ireland and six other northern countries reject his e.u. reform plans they don't want their voters taxes to be poured into any new fangled euro zone budget but home knows his plans only have any hope of success with germany's backing in berlin on thursday he repeated his hopes for euro zone reform . you see the city mo we need more solidarity in the currency union money no currency union can survive without an element of convergence it needs instruments of adjustment and alignment with.

eventually the german finance minister met us vice president pence schultz didn't disclose details of the chat not a good sign it seems there's been little to no progress on an exception for the e.u. on steel in alimony and tariffs which the. mine all i can say is that i think the officials here understand that we need the european union speak with one voice when it comes to trade issues i believe that this is a good development it could lead to good results of the by talking to loosen common cause i knew at the spring meeting of the international monetary fund in washington free trade was on the agenda as well many also using the opportunity to tell schultz that germany needs to do more to prevent another financial crisis in europe meaning spending more money on ailing countries but schultz avoided giving assurances. to live at best that we've improved the stability of the entire european banking sector over the last couple of years now things are looking a lot better but of course there's still room for improvement to weather any new financial storm is a would give up that one day it would for the vital however scholtz opposes the swift introduction of an e.u. wide bank deposit

a particular focus will be on finance minister or left shoulder his new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests at mays a bag nato secretary general shelton back commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment all foster digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. now for some of the other stories making news today i mean mark court has refused to drop or case against two reuters journalists arrested in december the two had been investigating a massacre of up to a dozen range of men last year they've been charged with violating the state's secrets act. seven million more soldiers have been sentenced to jail for their part in the killings. france and saudi arabia are reported to have signed business deals worth some eighteen billion dollars the reform of saudi crown prince mohammed bin zalman as ended his first trip to france by meeting president ma crawl across says france agrees with saudi arabia that arabian expansio

a particular focus will be on finance minister or left shoulder says new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests at mays a bag nato secretary general shelton back and e.u. commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment or force the digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. and joining us now from where those talks will soon kick off outside berlin is the w.'s chief political editor michelle or governor good morning michelle now there have been questions about whether this coalition can put some fundamental differences behind it especially over migration and get down to work what's it looking like. well the simply is no getting over fundamental differences when it comes to migration we sold leading up to this. from the bavarian c.s.u. party the conservative arm of under the magical c.d.u. c.s.u. union talking once again about not belonging to germany now what i've learned from inside the talks is that this really wasn

e.u. vs design fault for what for taking the dutch media for publishing news from russia calling it fake news the dutch parliamentary belt and they said that these people from their basically a government financed you. they're in for that they have no right to do to pass a judgment on what the dutch media is reporting whether it's fake news or not so netherlands is too good you know ukraine or maybe maybe muldaur or maybe the poor and that would be the right way for russia in their minds but it will you know it's never going to happen yes it's never going to happen or not is it keep trying you know i think really set of russia will never be america's friends and we will have to you know slap them around one hundred mark. and you know what we do the united states the united states is going to have united states inversion. paths could be friends. have to be friends but they don't have to be enemies ok notice that you know who cares about the term friends when you're talking about geopolitics also said it's nonsense throughout the years even in soviet times even in the seventy's in the sixty's in the eighty's ninety's that the thousands whether it's putin or british me of or what you have or who a

a particular focus will be on finance minister our left shoulder his new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests at mays a bag nato secretary general shelton back and e.u. commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment all foster digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. and joining us now from where those cabinet talks are about to kick off outside berlin and sunny brandenburg interviews chief political editor michelle occur for good morning michelle there's been some real questions about whether this coalition can put some fundamental differences behind it especially over migration and get down to work also looking like. well it's looking like a bit of both because even this new cabinet that's been office for less than a month has been meeting here has been chairing the glass of wine which is sorely needed after tobin and couple of weeks we hear from different parts of the c.s.u. party that's the party you call sis

a particular focus will be on finance minister orloff sold says new draft budget which he aims to present at the end of the month the e.u. and nato are also on the agenda with two high profile guests at mazen back nato secretary general shelton back and e.u. commission president. and the cabinet has also been discussing issues like how to reduce unemployment or force the digital development the new government has so far achieved little but the expectations are certainly high. the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons says it will send inspectors to syria to investigate the site of a suspected poison gas attack opposition activists say gas was used to kill dozens of people need to mask the weekend and blame the syrian government which denies any involvement united states has warned of a possible military response to the attacks and president trump has cancer plans a trip to south america to monitor events friends. already did nora poor is a member of the german parliament committee on foreign affairs he speaks for the green party on this issue welcome to day doubly so russia and america have tabled competin

financing itself on international capital markets again and is confident of hitting budget targets by twenty twenty three european commission intends to support greece along the way. important steps are still needed but that e.u. countries also must honor commitments in return calling solidarity and responsibility two sides of the same coin. barbara vessel is in the capital zofia and follows the events for us greek debt hasn't been in the headlines for quite a while now why is it back. well because it hasn't gone away really care hard i mean the whole greek problem was on the backburner everybody was watching the country struggling back to its feet again economically and politically things have quite a lot so finance minister think about things like the banking union and what else is on their mind spot in the background of course the greek problem is still looming because there needs to be some sort of exit package and that is one part of that is how are they going to control what greece does in the next years and decades maybe to stay on a growth course to sort of sort of stays stable and sustainable was in its econ economic development and the other of course is is there going to be some sort of debt relief

e.u. finance ministers meeting and so few have felt to reach a consensus on the introduction of a three percent levy on digital sales last month the european commission unveiled the plan to tax large multinational such as google facebook and amazon which have exploited the current system to shift profits to low tax countries such as ireland . tens of thousands of people have marched in pamplona spain for the third consecutive day to protest the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges the men work used of attacking a young woman at the twenty sixteen running of the bulls on thursday there were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse. freedom of expression. a value that always has to be defended and new. all over the world. are to a freedom freedom of art. a multimedia project about artists and their right to express their views freely. d w dot com to freedom. is the deputy chair of the parliamentary green party in the german bundestag she's an expert on defense policy and her vision is for a world without nuclear weapons and. welcome to the details.

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e.u. finance ministers meeting and so if you have felt to reach a consensus on the introduction of a three percent levy on digital sales last month the european commission unveiled the plan to tax large multinational such as google facebook and amazon which have exploited the current system to shift profits to low tax countries such as ireland . tens of thousands of people have marched in pamplona spain for the third consecutive day to protest the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges the men were accused of attacking a young woman at the twenty sixteen running of the bulls on thursday there were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse. the first foreign trip for the w.'s new boss habit d.s. brought him to the beijing motor show where he's delivering a powerful message volkswagen wants to invest fifteen billion euros in china by twenty twenty two in electric cars autonomous driving and digitization. v.w. launched its first fully electric car in beijing a compact s.u.v. called seoul has a range of more than three hundred kilometers a number of car makers are developing electric c

e.u. steel and i'll minium we've got the analysis also coming up euro zone finance ministers say the end to greece's multi-billion bailout program is in sight the country's got plenty of work to do and amazing amazon the company doubles its first quarter profits. also coming up breathing the best hand is the key to finding success in ethiopia. under winter and this is your business update germany is a major export nation and that's why trade issues were high on the agenda on friday when angela merkel met donald trump especially u.s. import tariffs they have a huge implication on a variety of industry sectors including the car industry.

have its own budget to be administered by its own finance minister he also wants higher taxes for internet companies and accelerate the intraday. action of e.u. wide intellectual property law. now i phone didn't use the reform of the economic and monetary union as an indispensable third front before the end that this european parliament's terms the finding a roadmap for moving forward on the banking union a fiscal capacity to promote stability and convergence in the euro area but as you know. only last year mckown was given a standing ovation for a similar speech at the sole bone university in paris this time the applause was more modest because the netherlands island on six other northern countries reject his reform plans they don't want their voters hard and taxes to be poured into any new fangled you read.