This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. I welcome Joseph Sternberg, member of the

editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. He writes political economics.

We're looking at a major concern for all of Europe

right now, the government of Deutschland, challenged by a rising phenomenon called alternative

for Deutschland, AFD, AFD. It is a party that began in the eastern part of the country, what was East Germany,

but it is now a major factor in the new Bundestag. The Chancellor of Germany is for Dick Merritt.

That's CDU. That's recognizable. An old rival of Anglo-American, the coalition government includes Oloff Schultz's SBD Social Democrats,

although he's no longer leading the party, Mr. Schultz.

But in between his AFD, they did very well in the Bundestag,

and Joseph, in his new column at the Wall Street Journal

is asking a very difficult question about AFD, and it comes out to be a simple matter of framing it.

Germany still doesn't know what to do with the far-right AFD.

Joe, a very good evening to you.

What to do with, as in to work with, as in to ban, as in to inquire about its origins.

Good evening to you, Joe.

Hey, John.

Yeah, I mean, those are basically the options, and none of them are particularly good.

So, I mean, to back up and remind listeners of where we are in this long, twisting, complicated tale of German politics right now,

remember we had the election back in February.

It was a win for Friedrich Meertz and the Christian Democrats, which is the

main center-right party, used to be Anglo-Mirichael's party. Before that, it was Helmut Kohl's party.

But the problem is that Merzz only won a plurality of the vote, barely about 30%. And so that was not enough for him to be able to form a

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