So what was the path that led you into politics in the first place and then all the way to European levels?

Yeah, it was my family because, as I said, I'm from a workers' family and many things changed also in Germany during the unification.

And I'm from the northeastern part of Germany and my mom was long... time unemployed and so we had to deal with poverty and also my sister and me and my family it was not that easy and my parents didn't change for themselves anything and this is why there was a feeling of injustice so we need to change something because it is not good that people like my family don't have the same access to society like the others.

because of poverty, unemployment and things like that.

And this is why I wanted to change something.

And I started really early at school to be the speaker of my class, to be the speaker of my school.

And then later on, when I was 14 years old, I became part of the youth organization for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.

How do you connect the very harsh reality that you're describing with the somewhat abstract policymaking that's happening here?

How much pressure can Friedrich Merz's coalition sustain? At what point is its collapse inevitable?

Yes, so there is lots of pressure to the coalition in Berlin.

And what we saw is when you look into the results since the European Parliament, since the elections of the European Parliament, there you can see, especially in the eastern part of Germany, really much increase of the results of the AFD over 30 percent.

So it is not that something is...

It is not that it is new.

So we see it since the elections of the European Parliament.

But now we see that lots of people lost their trust in the federal government.

Would the Social Democrats support the Christian Democrats replacing Merz by somebody else?