a narrow window of opportunity to keep you together serious stuff and praskovya is also with us she's an author and journalist for the french magazine one and she says a disastrous result in september's election followed by moments of quarrelling and deadlock. we can dangle americal there will be sworn in next wednesday plenty of interesting stuff i'd like to begin with you neal you've been following events very closely in the recent weeks and months lots of coral in lots of hard links finally we have a new government what should we expect from this new coalition well from the outside it may look like we're going to get more of the same because we of course have to remember that the past eight of twelve years we the german people have been governed by a so-called grand coalition and of course there is frustration here in germany that people are getting the feeling that whatever they vote for they always end up with a grand coalition and we're going to knuckle under what then come back at the helm