oh ok we're live there back at the parliament now with our chief political editor michelle acuff nurul ode to you again michelle a wide ranging speech by the chancellor she touched on a lot of issues the main focus of course being the economy her motto together for europe's economy calling this the biggest crisis in the history of the you. absolutely corona and the economic fallout is the overarching theme of the upcoming german presidency both tackling the crisis but also looking ahead how your of can emerge from this and there we saw the broad spectrum of challenges that america has identified that europe must tackle interestingly also to not let this crisis become an internal present almost to right wing populists she said that this is something they wait for political crisis to use and abuse at the same time the geopolitical challenges from outside at one point not naming china but clearly meaning china when she spoke about the challenges of finding a common line within the european union and actually find in e.u. voice but she does recognize that that will be a very tall order we

of his own party opposed the plan let's get more on this now with our chief political editor michelle acuff good morning to you michelle has there been any german government reaction so far to this announcement. well we saw at least a recognition a couple of days ago that germany had been informed that this is the real diplomatic insult here that the german governments that allies in europe weren't informed by the trump administration on these plans which as we just heard are also controversial in the united states some are even calling it a strategic present to russia because it's potentially throws into doubt how serious trump is about nato in the future as well ok there is some speculation right now that some of these troops might be moved to poland is there a concern that washington will be pulling more of the u.s. military presence out of germany if britain doesn't spend more on its military. i think the concern about numbers as large as the concern over symbolism right now because clearly this is also a diplomatic reaction to angela merkel not just having counseled plans for a de 7 me

for the distribution of a 1 point one trillion euro budget you have used chief political editor michelle acuff they're standing by for us at this hour at the parliament good day to you michelle can you tell us about the priorities berlin will be setting out for europe during its 6 month presidency. well the overarching party is getting through the corona crisis angela merkel said it before she's called this the deepest crisis of the e.u. since it was founded and she sees a european integration much used phrase i could almost say it's something that she needs to build within this crisis she says that europe could emerge from it even stronger but there are many question marks because after all the couple of months ahead will so over money 27 parties are trying to get a share that they can sell as a success that is normal procedure with another long term budget in the pipeline and of top of that the question is how this recovery fund will come together where germany has already crossed its own red line of allowing debt funded recovery plan that america doesn't really expect she's already said tha