discuss this further we're joined by george samueli a senior research fellow at the london metropolitan university georgia very welcome to the program so what is behind merkel's internationalist drove in her increasingly rejection of nationalist politics. what i think merkel is now very much thinking about her legacy i mean she's really at the very end of her chancellorship i don't think she's going to last till two thousand and twenty one because you know she's really a lame duck now and once the new leader of the c.d.u. is in place i think it will be great pressure for her to depart so she's really wants now to be seen as this. trans national figure. beyond nationalism beyond narrow self-interest global this figure for probably she's also thinking about her future career holding some one of these big international bureaucrat jobs so. this is really about all they go see about post chancellor career so is the fact that she has only two will three years left in power in polls and perhaps. yes and i don't think that she will serve this because the c.d.u. is doing so poorly electorally and everyone's really