 Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to a very important topic very important session that we have here this morning I can tell you I hope I'm not the only one who is a bit confused about the time change here in Morocco I can I can tell you that but we are live of course we are on with a very important session welcome of course to those who are joining us via live stream as well ladies and gentlemen we have wonderful speakers here who couldn't be better equipped to tell us about where the state of what the state of Europe is some basic European strategic issues that is what the topic is and the gentleman to my immediate left he is of course the minister of foreign affairs of Spain and a former president of the European Parliament ladies and gentlemen please welcome Joseph Borrell I'm delighted to welcome the foreign minister of Austria here this morning great to see her Karin Kneiser is your ladies and gentlemen who apparently brought her own fan club I like that delighted the odd man out if you will these days when you're talking about European issues welcome to you sir yes all the way in the back thank you and of course I'm delighted back we already had the pleasure at the WPC last year the 10th anniversary is the member of the House of Lords and a former Conservative member of the UK Parliament Michael Lothian ladies and gentlemen not an easy task to be the representative from the UK these days on EU matters but I'm delighted to hear from you in just a moment he's a senior fellow at Bruegel in Brussels and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in DC Nicolas Veron this year ladies and gentlemen and last but not least he's a current member of the French Parliament and a former member of the European Parliament Jean-Louis Boulange is your ladies and gentlemen now the way it's gonna go we are not going to this is not going to be your typical future of the EU session where all of us are going to bemoan the current state of the Union but instead all speakers have picked their own individual strategic topic that they would like to address when it comes to European affairs these days and then of course we are going to open up for a very dynamic issue so for Minister Vorel the challenge of migration these days could not be more urgent I am based in Berlin Germany where the topic is on the daily agenda on the agenda of many of your country so I'm very curious and delighted to hear what you have to say about this particular topic the floor is yours