martin scholz has launched his campaign. what do you make of it? >> he has launched a campaign to become the first democratically elected president of the european commission. that is the top job in europe. that is going to be decided for the first time at these elections. that was aed the way man while barroso -- jose elected in ao was closed-door procedure. he said he would like to lead a slimmed-down commission. he wants to look at powers, subsidiarity, being power back to the national governments. betweensaid solidarity european nations is necessary. that must happen. a campaign launched today. >> very technical, but very important. what about sigmar gabriel? >> an interesting speech. there are stories in the german media that he told the social democrat ministers within angela merkel's cabinet to report to him as spd leader, rather than to the chancellor. but he says no, he wants to be a constructive art and are within this coalition government. and of course to see it through to the end of the legislative period as much as possible. he also s