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Correspondent max hoffmann for us in brussels thank you very much. well it is not shaping up to be an easy week for the european union as that government crisis is unfolding in italy the rhetoric over bragg's that is heating up again british prime minister boris johnson says the e.u.'s plan for an irish backstop is unacceptable and has to go now the backstop is an insurance policy to make sure there is no hard border between northern ireland which is part of u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the e.u. many fear that civil conflict could flare up again if new border controls are ...

Later this year and the without a working government this could be very difficult and this could essentially lead to an increase in sales taxes in the v.a. up to 25 percent and this is something every italian person would would feel in the end all right our correspondent mark sander reporting for us in rome thank you very much. well let's get the view from brussels now our bureau chief standing by for us there hi max so what are the reactions that you've been seeing there. you know brussels is also on summer break right now so we haven't really seen any significant reactions so far and we don'...