Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

Oh yeah.

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular

audiobook titles, including Romantasy, autobiographies, true crime, and more.

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.

Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.

No way.

Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.

Terms apply.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batch for visiting with my good colleague, Judy Dempsey.

She's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She's based in Berlin. There is a pending election in Germany,

the engine within the engine of the European Union. Berlin is going to choose between two major parties,

SBD, that dates back to 1875.

Yes, that's how distinguished the SBD is.

This is coming out of the world of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and Bismarck.

But today, in the 21st century, it has failed to hold together the coalition, the traffic light coalition of

some years past and is now facing the German electorate. Why this is significant is that we do not

know where the war in Europe is going in the new year. In addition, the Syrian crisis promises

both possibilities of people returning to Syria and possibilities of more people fleeing Syria, many of whom wound up inside the German Federation at some point. They might have moved on since then, but immigration worries Europe profoundly. So, Judy, how are the two major parties defining themselves as they prepare for the election

in February?

Well, Olaf Schultz, the Social Democrat Chancellor, is trying to fight back.

...