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Be welcome in the c.d.u. he wants the cd you to carry that sort of conservative right wing stamp it means a socially conservative one although he himself hes pretty moderate on these things and he said he gave a really a rather inclusive speech as well and a name check tease opponent a cake kerry thanked her for the work shes done as general secretary and of course he thanked as all the candidates have done angle a miracle for her long years of service and did simon and as youve been speaking ju...

Course did the best in that election in september and is still trying to form a government right now they do have an agreement with the social democrats but as yet to be approved as medical heads off to brussels to morrow for that important summit our political correspondent thomas sparrow is standing by there for us covering the chancellors speech today thomas regularly addresses parliament but today is special tell us what makes this speech so important today. terry were standing here in the g...

Following that speech very closely thomas so what struck you most about michael speech. i would probably summarize merkels speech in one sentence that she said about midway through her speech its all about europe capable of acting she mentioned a wide range of areas in which she believes europe should be more capable of acting whether were talking about about migration whether talking about the competitiveness in in europe whether youre talking about european security whether youre talking about...

Means it will be the first time shes directly confronted with some of the most vocal opponents namely the members of the party alternative for germany described as far right an anti immigrant so this is certainly one of the reasons why this meeting today why this session right here in the german parliament is particularly important but also because of what you also addressed the fact that germany has now been for many months without a new stable government this is something that will obviously b...

Parliament as you mentioned terry the first speech that she presents here since the election in september and now its up for the other members of parliament to debate that speech and to debate those european proposals well the chance was it was fairly clear about what her priorities would be meeting with the other heads of state in government there in brussels to morrow thomas but how much leverage does the chancellor still have given that she has been unable to form a government since september...