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parties are much more like the british parties down to the there are, you will regulation to own a tiger, then there are a tone, a dog. how can this be happening? we take on us politics and i see and that's the bottom line. ah, i actually ok next week germans will be going to the pose and voting for a new chancellor. who can replace angela marco, one of the big concerns of both his right now. and who are the top candidate so much to pack into this episode of the stream. but 1st his anglo michael speaking just a few weeks ago about her own legacy. take a look and not top small to municipal, all for been myth and obviously the, the, the, the, the, even the big kim scott is a thing off of the target on sibling with us up coming in from feed and didn't finish making me out on cooney maximum the needle unusual and these talk

a snit and names exhaust them can get the thought. all does not fall on life and in a title harbor and softly and leave him because i'm only on indian anaconda. here with a beyond, the ministry minister does probably out of the tuition at 6 on for tomorrow, for the 3 stopped on the economy. so i'm yog, municipal. i rosa, i know marco, welcome your panel, everybody. i'm going to say hello to oliver and tom, and i feel nice to have you on board. all of that. please tell everybody who you are. what? i'm a correspondent, the united states correspondent with thoughts of ella. that's a germany's international broadcaster here in d. c. get to have you had, i tell them it's just south to the stream us. good evening from berlin. i'm talking to the bureau chief for the economist. nice to see sophia. welcome to the stream.

tell everybody who you are. what you do. hi, i'm sophia, i'm a senior research fellow at the european reform. that's the think tank and german for them. and we have such a great lineup audience. do you know ways that lives in the expertise we on youtube right now in the comments section. put your thoughts, your questions right here, and you can be part of today's show if we're talking about the legacy of angle americo, that would take us weeks. i would say, because really we break that down. we're not going to do that. i'm going to give you a little assignment, fear angle, of course, as a global leader on the world stage. what's a legacy? it's a really good question because on the foreign policy and germany's both in the mecca has been pretty hesitant actually, which might be surprising. she's not known for major speeches or decisions, changes in the field, the foreign policy interventions, she sort of champ and the usual german sho, include the,

the dialogue motivation and shooting that the china commitment tomato and you. but until that you recovery package last year that has been very concrete follow up in that she's been, i think a crisis manager with that has won her a good reputation abroad as an anchor for stability if you will. but it leaves germany without much of a strategy to tackle the big future challenges, like d cabin is ation of the economy or a digitalization or indeed, what to do about jimmy small as a defense power in nature of focus on missteps. 20 years, 16 years his job and talk to miss to yes. and that has been a long time. first of all right, i mean the along with serving chancellor together with him would cool the chancellor during the time of the unification in germany. i think it was also your car was here, made a famous quote. he said she did nothing. she did many things. right. but no major thing wrong. and i think that characterizes her very well. and that's also what

sophia pointed out, that she was a very careful politician. she always tried to gather majorities around herself, took a long time for her to come to conclusions sometimes. and that's where her problems also were. so she's certainly an anchor of stability over the last 16 years for germany, for europe. certainly very important aspect of her, of her legacy. but then on the other hand, she did not have a clear vision. she did not also tell short and in solving some of the biggest problems that the european union has, for instance. what if i place you on success? where you can look and work with a this is how see, this is where people will remember her being the most successful. tom. thing is, i mean, i think for fear and oliver have described it pretty well. you look back over 16 years, it's quite a long time for someone to be in office. but it's quite difficult to point to any kind of decisive moments which and them up who have

a kind of particular vision that she decided to execute either either for germany or europe or for the world. what you had really, i think were 2 things. one was a very strong ability to manage crises, and we had a lot of those, particularly in europe, in the 1st half of the 2010. you find anglo market, the heart of them, the years and crisis to refugees, to russia and ukraine. you name it, and the 2nd thing is a kind of a method, a way of trying to solve problems. what do you see with multiple time and time again, both domestically and internationally? is this method of trying to bring everybody to the table to hear everybody's point of view to negotiate all night long, if necessary, and crucially to delay making any big decisions until the last possible moment. and you can tell you have no choice, but to make those decisions. that was her way of managing crises, sometimes that led to quite a big costs, particularly in managing the euros and crisis. but that i think is the legacy more . busy to the method of the vision or an idea of the g. i was bring in the voice of

dr. janet bus. he is at trinity college in dublin, and this is what he told us a little bit earlier. i guess, i guess his next context oriented and pragmatic leadership style and kind of germany route tried to financial economic crisis and germany, seymour economic growth. they're not developed countries, but it is also because of this pragmatic leadership style that she has pedro trans sickness issues, lack of for, after the democracy, edward in the european union. and apartment isn't. she is also fed to use opportunities like to 2015 refugee crisis to develop a revision of germany as a migration country. she leaves her successor across from germany and need to put a provision. tell me you're sitting there in berlin. i'm just wondering what ratings are right now. the high all day. they staggering the high.

yeah. she wanted to run. like if i run again she's. yeah. i don't think there's any doubt about that at all. i mean, how approval ratings above 80 percent is actually extraordinary. yeah, and what's really striking is it, if you look at the ratings for the candidates from a blind to replace or the chancellor, they all have fraction of that was really been really interesting about the selection campaign. what you ordered them in that different way, but they tried to appeal to what is a very moderate centralist electric actually was so good at reaching, but i think they've also to for short in their own ways. yeah. so yeah. so that you guys, i and i are going to get all of it. no. yeah, go ahead. it's very interesting because a 3 time thing and it's so funny because they're looking almost for the next merkel right. germany is looking for the next mac up, her pitch with fun of ability and humility. and because all candidates are trying

to position themselves as the next market, we're almost looking for the nice charismatic most interest candidate. and i think we've seen that in the and election campaign that has been void of ideas really. oliver guy had. yeah. and it was the very interesting election campaign was in the and especially now if you look at 3 candidates and i think that's actually very important aspect. you're off to the election that we have never seen a situation where actually 3 parties will be necessary to form a coalition. so we have a real shift there in german politics right now. and that's perhaps too interesting also for you international audiences that this has not happened before. so there is this kind of erosion from what we seen in germany, that stability we were talking about before. everyone has addressed of us where usually 2 parties were trying to make the deal and trying to find out where the next chancellor will be. right. know, 1st of all we don't know it at all. busy so it's a very nice race, an academic way, nothing. we have no no

go ahead. but do we think about the selection? is it on the one hand, it kind of like horse race terms and going to win and who's up and down in the polls. it's been absolutely extraordinary. we've had 3 different policies in the lead, in the last 4 or 5 months. huge on a certainty about what's going to happen on sunday. and afterwards when they have to put a government together. on the other hand, if you were saying a moment ago, the campaign is actually been about nothing at all other than personalities and candidate has had no proper seemed really hasn't had much substance, which is really worrying, given the number of challenges at gemini, can i have to confront new things, i guess we can look into this breakdown of who, who the candidates are the 1st his friend he's, he's thinking about who the next person has to be. what kind of qualities do they have to be to be the next german chancellor periods? this is an unprecedented lecture for germany in many ways. actually the current

chancellor angle america was not running for office again. so we will definitely get a new chancellor. and that means for many voters that question off whom and trust with running the country has gained prominence over the last few weeks. and it seems, you know, they're looking for a safe pair of hands, which seems to benefit the current financing with all of the social democrats. i'm going to go through some of the top contenders in just a bit. sophia, what was on your mind? you're about to say somebody got to thinking about the fact that it's because they're trying to be medical that it's been boring, but it's also, i think that after 16 years of this was just called the tape and politics. germany has been and that's the time to take re,

i think we have lost track of fighting over of fighting over issues. and as a result, this campaign has been very process heavy. all right, so i'm gonna, i'm gonna board, i'm going to bore your brain here. let's take a look at some of the top candidates. i'm just going to put 4 up here, and i'm just going to do a single line write a single sentence. so let's start with the c d u christian democratic union. gentlemen. army like which is the leader of the christian democrats, angler, merkel party and the candidate for that party. and it's been very assist the party to see su, tried to position and help themselves in center of success to mark who have an absolute disastrous campaign social democratic party. let's pop out that leader. so his shots, he's the finance minister and the vice chancellor in the current government because yes, p d and the, the cd you see if you were in grad coalition at the moment and he sort of the opposite, he'd been a lot to use the s p d were really, really struggling and literally just in the last 4 to 6 weeks yesterday on shots

and stays. an extraordinary come back in the front runner to be good. it's actually, it's like a whole race. the green coffee tom, keep going. good. you're in a bad job to the junk chops and re from the green party. she's a co leader of the party with the medical group at hobbit. they briefly, when she became the counters and april, the greens briefly sought to the top of the poles as an extraordinary moment didn't last long. she made a few mistakes, but they're still of course have a very good election results and she will probably be in the next coalition government and the f, b, p, y, we even on this graphic creed, democratic party. what influences possibly have very good reasons out on the graphic christian in the age of the party is not going to be charged a t p as a small liberals. busy are pro business pass cutting party, but he, this party could be absolutely crucial to putting the next coalition government together because they will be needed to make up the numbers. which way they choose to go is going to be absolutely crucial in the day,

weeks after the elections of i have total respect for you saying you have no clue what he's going to happen on sunday. what do you want to share with us about what you feel? what is the folks who come in so many wildcards they are, that they usually shouldn't be historically. you know, i think in the past it was clear that if you look at the current, the father of them, the government said we had in the, in germany after the 2nd world war was usually mostly the conservative, c, d, u, together with the liberal business friendly f t p perhaps and and, and later in later stages you had a little bit more of. busy the social democrats, especially on america with 3 grand coalitions. so right now we're having the situation where everyone has more or less the same, you know, the same and pulling. you heard lasha, who had this disastrous campaign, as tom pointed out who's very unpopular infect among people who had this full par. for instance, where we had those flat catastrophe in germany with almost 200 people killed. and

he was caught in the sidelines of a press conference smiling, and really having a hearty joke. and that really didn't farewell. and then he turned around very often had a lot of you turns in his policies and so on and so forth. so that really makes him the unlikely candidate, but in recent days, i have to say that he's, he's kept up and is getting closer to his contender of the social democrats. so i can be very interesting. yeah, i heard you feel well what back from the global state angle and michael has a very distinct presence. who from those 4 candidates that we looked at diesel could, could actually have a presence of the international that's a really good question. i mean, i think what we almost know for certain and not to be pessimistic here, but germany is going to lose some of insurance and some of its power on the global stage with america leaving because and that's not just down to what i think it's a relative weakness of the candidate that's also that she had 16 years of

experience, 16 years of grip on both the national system and also international system within europe, with the global states. she had relationships she had influence. but also because, and it's unfortunate about the german elections that they don't lend themselves very well to theater after the election. you don't really know who the chancellor will have months, probably be of coalition negotiations. and then we're likely to end up with a quite segmented coalition. between the parties that might not really agree on foreign policy, so we're almost taken to be a bit weaker on the world stage. afterwards. i think that that be about had a very strong pitch on foreign policy. and she did very well in the global audience . and she was the dining of washington when she came here in the spring. but it's unlikely that she will be chance there between lashes and shows. i have to go with what i think is good to hear you're calling the election. you are. i'm calling who

will be the most respected with age and i think okay, just a different chem. alright, that's a better chance, but i am a bit like the economists, which is meant that they have think embraced charles, but the most lackluster embrace. i think that's about right. i think there's something to add which is a particular kind of europeans i mention on this, which is my, my impression is that although as we were saying before, i think german will be sad to see anglo muckle leave. she remains very, very popular. i think much of the rest of europe is not just sad, but actually very nervous about the prospect of seeing them up when you, because you can look back at the law of the 1516 years that she's been in office. she has been at the heart of everything that europe has done that she's for, she's really strong relationship. she absolutely placed germany at the heart of europe. look at any european country and their strongest relationship. most cases

with germany. when she's gong, there isn't going to be anybody else in europe who can fill that void and manual mccrory doesn't enjoy the same sort of trust continence mother play. to marry a drug, a prime minister eventually is liked and respected, but typically doesn't have the same cloud to jeremy doubt because whoever the next john chaucer is, is going to at the very least, need a good amount of time. it's kind of get that to the death, so there's gonna be a void at the heart of europe and people are quiet about that. all right, guess i have same many questions and thoughts from you for i live chief audience. i'm going to throw them out to you. i want to instant reaction, but not the analysis but instant got reaction back. all of his looking at me. all right, kimberly, i'm going to work is one of the. and she's a powerful woman. she, she doesn't know who can replace her. is that a feeling that you're also getting from the german public as junior reporting? well, i don't know the question. she doesn't know who to be, who to replace. she doesn't, she doesn't know. i think the idea is she can't conceive the could possibly replace

with somebody will. obviously she's been out in the streets supporting lots of course in recent days because she sees that, that is not moving the way she wants to. but it's certainly big footsteps, you know, and the big question of course, is the, the stability one, will the next government and be as stable as the one before. that's what people wonder, right now. what's gonna happen? you know, this is such a long time, 16 years. i mean, i was like, i just came out to university when, when uncle american took took office for the 1st time, a lot of people have never, you know, the younger folks have never seen anything. anyone else empower anything deal? let me bring in another comment. this one's from home is on you. she's thank you for being part of the shows. they fear this one is for you foreign policy. how does germany intend to position itself towards china? russia, given the recent a u. k. u s. street. yeah. security alliance, straight the u. k. united states alliance. this is

a quick 1. 50. yes. the. the quick question. yes. that's the transatlantic relationship. yes. so really briefly, i think i'm trying to see some change in germany, no matter who comes to the office. because the gentleman contented sometime at changing from a really mercantilist approach, a bit naive, perhaps trying to include china and the global system to a more confrontational approach. closely uniting itself with the us and russia, there's going to be continuity, i think, not seem to have done. that's the issue that everyone talks about, that sort of done the sanctions at the heart of germany, russia policy and they will likely continue again. and each chapter defend spending is the one that people tend to tend to talk about globally. and there i can only say that no german, particularly of the 2 percent defense spending go so very likely to be disappointing without for those who are hoping for more. there, i think the question mentioned the office back the last couple of last couple of weeks. germany has been pretty quiet and that's there. they don't fall

in line with the french pitch for european sovereignty as opposed to the close transatlantic relationship. and putting this in very simple term, they're really keen to maintain a close relationship with us and not to get to involved in conflict with us in the end of us, i think, i guess one more thing to do is definitely got value from you today as that is a key issue that focus will be voting on. this is what steph and told us earlier. tom come off the back of this video immediately with what you believe is a key issue. the voters will be contemplating as they go to the post on sunday, 1st, defend the number. one issue with the german public is concerned with in this journal election is according to the pause the climate crisis. we've had a major flash slamming event with 170 fatalities and tens of billions of years of

damage in west germany this summer. in line with a general increase in extreme precipitation on a warm and planet together. of course, what increase each ways, draw a stronger target cycle. oh and then so on. and almost all parties in german parliament pay lip service to the $1.00 degrees centigrade go. paris climate agreement. but none of them as a viable policy for what is a fair contribution of germany to this areas agreement. i mean, you are talking to a climate research, so maybe it wasn't surprising that he said the climate is going to be very important. but he's right. i mean, we were saying before that this campaign isn't really about anything, but to the extent that it's focused on any particular policy areas. climate is definitely close to the top of the list, maybe at the top of the list, and then have a times that actually some quite rich, substantial debates on of between the parties on how they would hope to lead

germany towards what a now actually quite ambitious emission reduction targets by 2030, and 2045. for me. the frustrating thing has been that while there's been lots of talk about, you know, to what extent you have to regulate versus leave it to the market. to what extent german industry is going to be able to make the transition from what it's doing now to what it needs to do in the future. it's been completed almost completely divorced from the global context and germany, responsible for about 2 percent of global carbon emissions. what it does is important, and it's important to euro most important to europe is important to the world that, that stuff you haven't really heard about in this debate. it is, if you know germany can solve the global climate crisis when it's done. all right, i'm going to give you 11 thought hey oliver, cuz we're almost at the shop. wanna fit so few in as well. one so. so what we influencing gemma focused on sunday. one thought, i think loudly, she pointed out to him as it's climate change is above all,

very important topic. and it's what's interesting is that, that you have now the green party coming also strong. they were all stealing a little bit from the green party because they are more or less on the same page when it comes to climate change and certainly different shapes, but are all moving in the same direction. the fear. so judging from the past what a german voters care about in the privacy of the election to stability, they've been conservative for years. small conservative. the question is whether the current of people globally and in germany and 5th climate crisis, has actually made a change in the german connect to bind and beat them to vote more for a sort of future program for germany. or if they were going to go back to vote for a stability center. thank you so much. the fear and tom and oliver for giving us a whirlwind trip around next to some of the candidates. so it was

a thinking from germany, how, how others a thing journey from outside germany as well. really appreciate it. it's a great primer for sunday that will show you here on my laptop, where you can actually follow our gas. don't you? rather news is all of as outlets. sophia is here at sophia bash, and tom, tom natalie, tom underscore not or you can follow. come and see how he's reporting out the fee. is she talking about germany, past and post angela marco and how butcher valet is as well. thank you for your questions. they were excellent. i will see you next time. take everybody. ah

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