PREVIEW: #SCHOLZ: #POLLS: With colleague Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin re More of the troubles in Europe and Germany: the troubled Scholz and his sinking approval rating along with
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, speaking with my colleague Judy Damse in Berlin, the editor-in-chief of Strategic |
| 0:06.9 | Europe for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
| 0:11.0 | About Olaf Schultz, the Chancellor of Germany, leading a coalition. |
| 0:15.0 | Most unpopular right now. |
| 0:18.0 | Why, it has to do with Ukraine war and security and the German economy. |
| 0:23.6 | In immediate terms, Ben Wallace, a former defense minister in the United Kingdom, has said |
| 0:30.0 | pithily, Mr Schultz is the wrong man and the wrong job at the wrong time. |
| 0:36.0 | Judy has an interpretation. |
| 0:38.3 | What is striking here is that nominally this is about a security leak by the Bundes fair. |
| 0:45.0 | Nominally this is about Olaf Schultz's opinion that the |
| 0:50.0 | Taurus missile will not be shipped to Ukraine, giving Ukraine strike capability that it needs |
| 0:55.2 | to go after the Kirch Bridge. |
| 0:57.0 | Annamally, this is about Olaf Schultz leading a coalition that is not certain about the defense of Europe. However, it's turning into a contest |
| 1:06.0 | between Olaf Schultz and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France. His duty to explain |
| 1:11.5 | the trouble, the political trouble for the Chancellor of Germany. |
| 1:16.6 | It's the opinion in Germany. |
| 1:18.7 | The opinion polls for Chancellor Charles and his social Democrats, they are just so low, they've plummeted, |
| 1:26.2 | maybe 14 or 50 percent, they are absolutely abysmal. And I don't think Ben Wallace, the former UK Defence Minister, is sort of getting at |
| 1:38.1 | Schultz what the Brits are doing is they're saying let's pull together and see how we're going |
| 1:44.3 | to get a kind of victory for Ukraine and Britain has been really very |
| 1:48.9 | interesting in defending Ukraine with all sorts of equipment and missiles, but the perception and the opinion of |
| 1:57.0 | Olaf Schultz here in Germany is just so miserable. |
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