German Electioncast! (The Lookahead)
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss Germany’s upcoming elections.
With concerns about immigration and the economy dominating, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could increase their seat share in the Bundestag. But can they get power?
Adam speaks to BBC Europe editor, Katya Adler, and German historian and author, Katja Hoyer.
And, Ukrainian President Zelensky and the US Chief Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg are holding talks in Kyiv, but a scheduled press conference with the two of them was cancelled. Mark Urban, former Newsnight diplomatic and defence editor looks at why.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I wanted to call today's episode Valcast, because that is the German word for election. |
| 0:11.5 | So it would make it election cast in German, because we're focusing on the German elections, |
| 0:16.6 | which are happening this weekend. |
| 0:18.3 | But we then thought, hang on, flowing a random German word into the feed is probably a little bit too out there, even for us. |
| 0:27.3 | So it's a classically titled, Englishly titled episode of newscast, but with a lot of focus on German politics. |
| 0:34.7 | And there's going to be a really interesting chat where we will give you |
| 0:37.8 | the geographical and historical key that will help you unlock what is happening in German |
| 0:43.4 | politics, which of course has a knock on effect about what's happening in European and world |
| 0:47.4 | politics, of which there's quite a lot at the moment. So listen to this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:52.4 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:54.8 | I like landscapes. |
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| 0:57.1 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:59.5 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:00.8 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
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| 1:07.2 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
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| 1:10.7 | Let's go have it to world. |
| 1:12.3 | Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And later on in this episode, we will get an update on US-Ukraine-Russia relations. Because as there has been every day this week, there is an update on that. But first of all, let's dive into the German general election. Millions of |
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