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This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Baxter.

To Judy Dempsey, my good colleague, senior scholar Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin.

When last we left Judy, the inauspicious beginning for Herr Meritz is Chancellor of All Germany.

Because the first vote in the Bundestag, which was assured if you count heads, was not successful.

Later that day, there was a successful vote.

And since then, Ermerz, Friedrich Merz, is his name.

He's a very talented attorney, and this is his venture into world leadership.

Since then, he's appointed a cabinet, and remembered now, the coalition is the largest party by Bundestag vote, the CDU and CSU brethren. The second largest party is not in the

cards right now. That would be AFT, but the social

Democrats who were in charge of the coalition are joined with the CDU. So you have, in America,

this would be the Republicans and Democrats working together. Okay, a magical moment. And we now have a cabinet.

Judy, I'm unfamiliar with many of the names in the cabinet.

One, I saw immediately as reassuring Boris Pistorius,

who was the defense minister under Mr. Schultz,

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