Former Christian Democratic Union politician and member of the Bundestag, Elisabeth Motschmann has advised Germany through some difficult political periods. But with end of the Merkel era and the start of a new kind of coalition, the country is facing different challenges to what it has dealt with previously. In this episode Elisabeth sat down with Portland Berlin’s Felix Hofmann to discuss the major transition Germany is undergoing and what this means for power in the country and its place in Europe.