Hello and welcome to the third episode of my podcast The Global Agora. My name is Andrej Matišák, and I work as the deputy head of foreign desk in Slovak daily Pravda.

The election in Germany will take place on September 26 and the world will be watching who will succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel. Is the Chairman of CDU Armin Laschet a strong contender? Or will Annalena Baerbock replace Merkel and Germany will have the first Green Chancellor? And should the world be nervous about those changes? I talked to Eric Langenbacher, Teaching Professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) in Washington.