All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Germany.

The elections are fast approaching, and it looks like CDU is starting to think about working

with the AFD, at least on immigration-migration issues, which is huge news.

What is your thoughts on what is happening in Germany? Well, the last couple of days have been very extraordinary in Germany.

They show how unstable and unsustainable in some respects, the whole political setup there is.

And they might ultimately prove decisive.

I mean, you know, one has to qualify this because we still got several weeks to go before the election.

But one gets the sense that a number of things have snapped.

Now, as happens in Germany all the time now, we have a large migrant population.

Some of these migrants do appalling things.

I'm not suggesting all of them do, or a majority of them do, but some do.

There's been knife attacks. A child of two was stabbed. Of course,

in the very fraught atmosphere that we have in Germany today, these things get noticed,

as they would, just to say, I mean, don't blame people for noticing these things. It's completely

understandable, given all that's happened in Germany over the last 10 years, that people would notice

these things. Of the IFDA has been making massive mileage on the economic front, talking about the

cost of living crisis, the irrational

energy policies that the coalition has been conducting, the closing of the nuclear power

stations, the severing of the economic links with Russia, the ongoing processes of de-industrialization.

And we now having opinion polls, which show a number of things.

Firstly, the SPD is sinking.

One opinion poll puts them at 15%.

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