Our guests:

Pascale Hugues  is an author and journalist for the French magazine “Le Point”. She says: “A disastrous result in September’s election followed by months of quarelling and deadlock. It’s a weakened Angela Merkel that will be sworn in next Wednesday.”

 

 

Nina Haase  is a political correspondent here at DW. She argues that “Angela Merkel has to take the hand that Emmanuel Macron has stretched out. They only have a narrow window to keep the EU together.” 

 

 

 Maissun Melhem - is with our DW Arab language desk. Syrian-born Maissun says: “While her social democrat coalition partners struggle to revive their fortunes, the chancellor can work calmly on her legacy. Angela Merkel is far from wounded.”