Starts november twenty fourth b. T. W. This is d w news live from the leaders of france and germany come together in berlin for germany day all from member of the french president is closer cooperation with an enduring ceremonies marking germanys day all remembrance he set to take steps in that direction in talks with chancellor Angela Merkel will have full coverage also coming up. With a survey suggesting more people in a britain would now choose to stay in the European Union it will take you to
a town where the leave a vote was among the strongest and where so many now switching sides. Im helena home free glad you could join me germany is marking remember and stay with a number of ceremonies. And the borders tog a Special Service has taken place to honor the victims of war and violent oppression during the Twentieth Century european conflicts twice turned into world wars with hundreds of millions of lives lost and destroyed in both World War One and World War Two fronts in germany fo
But this question of the of gender balance and possibly of east west and south balance which is something she also referred to in some of her remarks before the vote today those are the only sort of contours of the commission that we know so far she was still a bit cagey just now saying well im really thought about it yet who are we going to have and you can start naming names of course the Member States will be nominating their people and trying to get their people in the right jobs she was also asked will you be having a commissioner for the environment and given that youve said the number one thing you want to do is agree need deal she says she wants to get legislation going on the environment to hit those Climate Targets within the 1st 100 days in the job and she said well you know maybe we could do that but we thought that far yet so a lot of but i think she showed more generally i think she showed good humor she batted away a couple of questions for instance that one on you know
earth you know in her speech today and in the last few days she s made huge commitments on you know the way that she s going to shape the european union in the years ahead and it ll be interesting to see how much of that she can really keep going how well she can keep all the different factions within the european machine together particularly in view of this slim margin in this vote today although we may come to see this is a real remarkable achievement actually to get over this line given you know how many centrifugal forces there are in the european union right now and i think she ll be a breath of fresh air perhaps off the junk. d w political correspondent simon young thank you for that. so that s the big news of the night germany s are sort of on the line elected as the european commission s
unanimous or uniform book in order to progress we have to accept that our rhythms and circles are different that some larger project the corporation which was the case pushing on of the euro but we always need to remain open to everybody and keep in mind and in our hearts the interests of a unified europe that was our strength must also become our sovereignty if you want to govern which fellow countrymen we are going to be able to protect them from the numerous and to choose our future then we need to be more sovereign as europeans by the bag. and with me in the studio now to talk more about this is the w. political correspondent peter craven and kate brady is standing by outside the chancellor a welcome to you both kate to you first now chancellor merkel and
also every new restrictions on people with unless asylum status for there not to be able to bring their relatives to germany safely and on a legal basis now those working groups are still talking to each other so we don t really know the details of all sides keep stressing that nothing is decided until everything is decided to hear at the same time that statement that we saw from the german chancellor only lasted one minute that s significantly less than. spoke the social democrat leader who certainly has to deliver something and if he can bring his own posse on board to continue these talks after all this will be put to a vote any kind of agreement that could be found during this process of coalition talks and the grassroots of the social democrats would have the final say so he has to deliver something and that was the w.