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Hello!

I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question of one big story.

Today what does Europe think?

I was recording another episode in another BBC studio when Theresa May came out of Downing Street this morning and spoke to the cameras and as I rushed up to do the interviews for the episode,

Philly, who'd come down to say, get up, we've got to do these interviews.

Philly's rushing me upstairs to our studio here and I asked her what happened,

what had Theresa May said and

Philly just said she cried. I will shortly leave the job that it has been the

honor of my life to hold. The second female Prime Minister, but certainly not the last.

I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity

to serve the country I love. And then she went back into number 10, stooping, and the door closed, and Downing Street looked

like a very lonely place indeed.

You know too often in this country we think it's all about us, about what Britain wants,

about what we're going to do next.

We'll all have our opinions and hopes and fears about what happens next and who takes over what they're going to do.

But it isn't just about us, which is why we wanted to make this episode, why we wanted to talk to

two people who know how this all looks just a short hop away in the rest of Europe.

The first person we rang is Tannit Koch, a big figure in German journalism.

She used to run one of the main national newspapers and now she's managing director of the news channel N TV

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