and it's great to have derek scully on the program again he is a correspondent based here in berlin with the irish times and he says ireland did it right in the 2nd wave after a 6 week lock down the irish are looking forward to a relatively relaxed christmas and new year. so matthew let me start out by coming back to the quiet season because it's certainly not a quiet season for medical personnel and for many people it working in clinics and of course intensive care units more and more are under strain here in germany what happened. well i think the government took overall a fairly flexible approach over the last several months in germany because they didn't want to have a hard lockdown like we've seen in other countries in europe in france and belgium italy and so forth one reason is because the effects that that has on the economy and yes now the numbers are rising in germany but if you look back over the past 6 months and if you look at how the german economy has performed and it's outperformed most of europe it's done surprisingly well with for example in the 3rd quarter alone the g.

and it's great to have derek scully on the program again he is a correspondent based here in berlin with the irish times and he says ireland did it right in the 2nd wave after a 6 week lock down the irish are looking forward to a relatively relaxed christmas and new year. so matthew let me start out by coming back to the quiet season because it's certainly not a quiet season for medical personnel and for many people it working in clinics and of course intensive care units more and more are under strain here in germany what happened. well i think the government took overall a fairly flexible approach over the last several months in germany because they didn't want to have a hard lockdown like we've seen in other countries in europe and france and belgium italy and so forth one reason is because the effects that that has on the economy and yes now the numbers are rising in germany but if you look back over the past 6 months and if you look at how the german economy has performed and it's outperformed most of europe it's done surprisingly well with for example in the 3rd quarter alone the g

and it's great to have derek scully on the program again she is a correspondent based here in berlin with the irish times and he says ireland did it right in the 2nd wave after a 6 week lockdown the irish are looking forward to a relatively relaxed christmas and new year. so. matthew let me start out by coming back to the quiet season because it's certainly not a quiet season for medical personnel and for many people it working in clinics and of course intensive care units more and more are under strain here in germany what happened. well i think the government took overall a fairly flexible approach over the last several months in germany because they didn't want to have a hard lockdown like we've seen in other countries in europe in france and belgium italy and so forth one reason is because the effects that that has on the economy and yes now the numbers are rising in germany but if you look back over the past 6 months and if you look at how the german economy has performed and it's outperformed most of europe it's done surprisingly well with for example in the 3rd quarter alone t

and it's great to have derek scully on the program again she is a correspondent based here in berlin with the irish times and he says arlen did it right in the 2nd wave after a 6 week lockdown the irish are looking forward to a relatively relaxed christmas and new year. so. matthew let me start out by coming back to the quiet season because it's certainly not a quiet season for medical personnel and for many people it working in clinics and of course intensive care units more and more are under strain here in germany what happened. well i think the government took overall a fairly flexible approach over the last several months in germany because they didn't want to have a hard lockdown like we've seen in other countries in europe in france and belgium italy and so forth one reason is because the effects that that has on the economy and yes now the numbers are rising in germany but if you look back over the past 6 months and if you look at how the german economy has performed and it's outperformed most of europe it's done surprisingly well with for example in the 3rd quarter alone the

and it's great to have derek scully on the program again he is a correspondent based here in berlin with the irish times and he says ireland did it right in the 2nd wave after a 6 week lockdown the irish are looking forward to a relatively relaxed christmas and new year. so. matthew let me start out by coming back to the quiet season because it's certainly not a quiet season for medical personnel and for many people it working in clinics and of course intensive care units more and more are under strain here in germany what happened. well i think the government took overall a fairly flexible approach over the last several months in germany because they didn't want to have a hard lockdown like we've seen in other countries in europe in france and belgium italy and so forth one reason is because the effects that that has on the economy and yes now the numbers are rising in germany but if you look back over the past 6 months and if you look at how the german economy has performed and it's outperformed most of europe it's done surprisingly well with for example in the 3rd quarter alone the g.