who s going to be we going to have a statement a star or a minister for digital affairs so you know angle america has to exactly except among americans hand because next year we re going to see european elections and we re already experiencing a rise in populism and things are going to get a lot harder of the right wing populist to win even more votes. martin you want to comment and i think there s another big reason or important reason why she would like to work with michael the last six months she was exhausted and very busy with her efforts for the government or coalition with any partner and that was the time where makoni managed to present herself at the man of europe at the new power in europe as she lost a bit of her profile like hope or for europe and i think she would like to work with him now to regain some of the things she lost in the last six months and i think she will manage to do a lot of people i mean we re talking about merkel here we re talking about merkel
not petraeus would have he obviously has some vetting issues, but do you think, from your sense of republicans on capitol hill, do you think those would be problematic enough to keep him from being secretary of state or would they be easily overcome if that was the way that donald trump went? i think that there would be a lot of explaining that he made a mistake, he owned up to the mistake, he has paid a price for the mistake, and he s got a large portfolio of experience that is key to that position. so you would have some republicans, sort of the mccain/graham coalition,ed th t would strongly support a david petraeus in any foreign policy role. it is a challenge to get around the obvious, that he was convicted of a misdemeanor related to passing secrets, especially at a time when there was so much question about what extent the clinton e-mail should be probed and investigated and so forth. and we re not even sure that s entirely over from a capitol hill perspective. so that makes
a bit although she looks very tired so. on the other hand i m going to america lose somebody who s always in for surprises she is very very able to rebounds and those at the moment nobody else who could take up part and she s very much liked in a broad she s very much like called a friend of president was completely relieved when the graham coalition was formed that. i could work with america again and not have in germany some kind of pretty sure who where was not european so you have to remember it s a bit like go by cho she s more liked outside germany then she s in germany you know you yeah i would i would argue also that you could you could clearly see that since september the elections the political parties here in germany didn t really want to go together with medical they all know that they re going to lose their profile if they re in the government with anglo american the s.p.d. was was punished for that they lost tremendously they lost seven percent percentage
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
a powerful person i think she is still one of the most powerful persons maybe the most powerful person in germany but i don t like the word dominant forces scriber because dominance is not really the best way to describe her way of governing america had always the strategy of listening carefully to what the public mood wants to hear and say and present what the public mood wants as her own choice and her decision so it s not dominant it s actually the opposite of being dominant colleague at the top of the show in your statement you said that angle merkel is after all the quarrelling that we ve already mentioned all the uncertainty that s gone before is weakens tell us more well you know she s she hasn t won the election granules lesion is used she s a score of the election was more very good than she went through months and months of quarreling and delaying and to form this coalition when you look at her shows she looks looks very strange she looked