nick spicer is studied by in early -- standing by in berlin. it feeeels like this agenda will be hijacked by immigration today. >> you are right. the agenda was supposed to be about reform in the eurozone. maybe creating a defense identity as the u.k. leads the .u. -- leaves the e asylum issues have become front and center. emmanuel macron realizes he will not have a german interlochen to deal with. she has to fire his -- her interior minister over this dispute within the conservative bloc in parliament. they are going to talk about eurozone reform. i think they are going to come up with bilateral, believable proposals for the other partners in the european union. angela merkel desperately need them. toanuel macron really wants work with the german can -- german chancellor. that ishe find a deal likely to satisfy her interior minister who is not overly happy? >> i did not think she is going to fix everything with the french president. they do agree on some things. they agree on the need to defend europe's exterior borders better. they need to h

for more on this, we have nick spicer.lus through how big a this issue actually is for the chancellor angela merkel. endedit could be a career -- ending controversy and confli. she has been facing off with president trump wants to impose terrace on german automobiles and upset the postwar international order and who wants germany to spend more on defense. she has problems with populous countries and italy with a debtt lolo. she has managed the euro zone crisis. she has been stabbed in the that come if you will, by the sister party in the conservative block. it is significant or her, but for all of europe as well. ,f she is in political peril which people havave been sayings the case. what has been planned by the interior minister is to announce border controls and he is within his rights to do that and that will force angela merkel to politicalhim to her inferior or to f fire him and rk ththwhole coalalition unravevel, resigning, possibly calling a vote of confidence. none of the options s are appepealing. now,we are heari