This is CBS. Eye on the World. I'm John Batchelich. To Berlin, Judy Dempsey, senior scholar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The recent election in Germany brought forth Friedrich Merz, a lifetime excellent attorney, lawyer, as well as a man whose long

looked to be Chancellor of Germany.

Well, he is almost forming a coalition with his colleague Olaf Schultz, the previous Chancellor,

and yet Berlin, Reuters.

Germany's would-be Chancellor Friedrich Merit sought to regain the political initiative on Monday yesterday, promising renewed focus on competitiveness after a bruising weekend that saw the far-right draw level and poll with his conservatives for the first time.

Judy, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this.

To interpret this, it looks like the alternative for

Deutschland does very well among those who are unhappy with Mr. Merritt.

What is it that he is doing either right or what is it that his party wants him to do that has not happened yet?

Good evening to you.

Hey, good evening, John.

And thank you very much for having me on your great show.

It's a very interesting situation because Friedrich Merz was elected by not only Christian democratic union voters, his party, but

other voters as well, in the promise that he would bring change, more competitiveness,

more modern Germany, a Germany that was going to deal with de-industrialization,

Germany that was going to deal with artificial intelligence, and Germany that was going to deal with de-industrialization, Germany that was going to deal with artificial intelligence,

the Germany that was going to actually understand

that it had to diversify its economy in all sorts of ways.

And what happened?

Well, he actually meant metaphorically to bed

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