This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome my colleague Judy Dempsey, senior scholar for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

We begin in Berlin because there's a new government forming around the very successful

and well-dressed attorney Friedrich Merrittz, who is now the leader of the winner of the

most recent election.

That would be the Christian Democratic Union, the CDU, and its partner the CSU.

However, there is German governance afoot here, and Judy's here to help me

understand it, because while there is a winner of the most recent election for the Bundestag,

there is not yet a government in place because of a negotiation underway between Hermitz

and the previous chancellor, or the present chancellor,

Olaf Schultz, who leads the SBD, of the Social Democrats.

Judy, a very good day to you.

This is a procedure that I'm unfamiliar with.

They're negotiating between the two worlds. Friedrich Merritt's is looking

to bring the SPD into his coalition in order to maintain a majority at the Bundestag. It would

appear that the negotiation is going well from the report at Reuters. All I have.

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the center-left social

Democrats will submit findings on a possible coalition. Monday, that would be today, a step

toward forming a government and bridging differences. Okay, differences. Let's begin with migration. Is there a

profound difference between how the social democrats want to regard the migrants already in Germany

and future migrants coming to Germany and the way the conservatives have presented to their

electorate? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. And thank you, as always, for having me on your show.

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