This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors, to Europe. Through the headlines from Europe,

straight turmoil, country after country, especially the giant pieces of the European Union,

Germany and France. I begin with Germany. Transport strikes brings much of Germany to

standstill. The walk out one of the country's biggest and decades is part of a wave of labor

unrest stark sparked by higher prices in Europe. Matching that, continuing, is the turmoil

in France, the headline again. French protests grow volatile in test for Macron, the President

of France. More than 13,000 police officers were deployed across the country for protests.

They were expected to draw more young people. There's been destruction of property, there's

been burning of city halls, there have been physical threats. That's France. And then,

to complicate the story of the telling of the EU is an alert in Northern Ireland, not

a member of the EU, about a terror attack. This disturbs all the water in Ireland and across

the EU. Where do you look for a calm? I look to Judy Dempsey, the editor-in-chief of strategic

Europe, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is in Berlin, which we're told

is at a standstill. All transportation is said to be participating in this strike. Judy,

I begin by saying we want to speak of the just concluded Putin Xi Summit of the bad actors

in Moscow, but my checking on France and Germany, is this unusual scale of protests that we're

experiencing now or is this been something that's happened before and it's cyclical? Good

evening to you. Good evening, Jonathan. Thank you for having me on your show. Well, these

are two very different countries. Let's take Germany. These are big strikes caused by inflation,

firstly, and led by a new leader of the railways, the public transport. He's a very old social

democratic civil servant and he's been in the union trade union for a long time. Many

wanted to test his muscles, but they have a grievance. But one thing you should remember about

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