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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the CR podcast. My name is Luigi Scatieri. I'm a research fellow at the Center for European Reform.

And this episode of the CR podcast is on the prospects for German foreign and security policy

after the elections that will take place in just a couple of weeks on the 26th of September.

I'm delighted to be joined today by Claudia Mayo, head of the International Security programs at Berlin Stifton Wysenschaft

on Politique, and Sophia Besch, Senior Research Fellow at the CER.

Hello to you both, and thank you very much for joining me today.

So with the elections just a few weeks away, the polls are pointing towards a rather fragmented

political landscape. This means that there are many possible coalitions that can emerge

after the elections, potentially after quite a long-winded negotiation process involving

significant compromises between different parties. So just to mention a few possibilities, there might be a coalition between the Conservative Christian

Democrats, the Greens and the Social Democrats, or between the Social Democrats,

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