Hello I'm Simon Long, the finance editor at The Economist, and this is money talks.

Coming up this week, a storm in the London Uber car.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor, and Transfth London

don't want to completely ban Uber.

In an ideal world, they want to bring Uber back to the table

and force it to obey not only the letter but also the spirit of the law.

And the day of the Miffids, too.

It does actually have a pretty concrete impact on retail investors, which do add up to sort of real, you know, pence and pounds out of their pension

pots.

But first, nightmare win for Merkel was the headline in the German newspaper the built

after Angela Merkel's hollow victory in the general election on Sunday.

Her Conservative Christian Democrat and Social Democrat Alliance lost seats to the right-wing populist alternative

for Deutschland or alternative for Germany party.

The SPD have ruled out another coalition with Mrs Merkel, meaning she may turn to the liberals and

Greens in a rare three-way coalition. Adam Roberts, our European business

correspondent, is here to discuss what effect this might have on the markets and

on business.

Adam, let's start with AFD alternative for Germany.

First, entrance of an extreme right-wing party to Germany for more than five decades how's business reacting?

Well obviously people aren't in the business world aren't too happy about this

Germany's economy depends enormously on exports on trade with the rest of the world it

wants a very open trading system it hates the idea of protectionists or

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