us in brussels and barbara if you can hear us is this correct then that that sentiment from pierre moscovici that germany is now ready to engage for a stronger europe. germany is ready to do that and i mean america is ready to do that and everybody has known it because of course the document that was most read in brussels and in other european capitals of course particularly in paris was the coalition agreement that everybody said are right there's a real cry to a lot of europe in there is often also the promise of more money from germany that is for many european countries one of the main points and the other main point for many rypien is the exit of. the old finance minister who has really helped the purse strings very tight over many years and when we talk for instance to some greek representatives earlier run the time when the coalition agreement was written they said yes it's wonderful everything is good as long as that old politics of really very tight fiscal policy is gone so there are a lot of expectations but also some have been aching to sort of contradict in a certain way are our

has set up plans to increase the tax paid by the digital companies the finance commissioner pierre moscovici says he wants firms with larger digital revenues and europe to pay a tax of three percent of their turn over the plans won't come into force unless they're backed by the european parliament and the twenty eight countries now forty four african countries have signed a free trade deal the biggest since the world trade organization was established like the e.u. will allow the unrestricted movement of people goods and capital that among the countries who have not signed up to south africa and nigeria the country's biggest continent rather biggest economy mohamad the reports from the rwandan capital kigali. one by one they signed up to an agreement decades in the making it's estimated the african continent toll free trade area could see business between african nations increased by more than fifty percent within four years the idea is to bring together countries with a combined population of one point two billion people and gross domestic product or g.d.p. of more than two trillion dollars