'Mini-Merkel': What Can We Expect From Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer?
We look at the new chair of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the CDU, and how similar the women two are.
The new chair of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has been appointed and quickly nicknamed 'Mini-Merkel'. But how similar are the two women - politically and personally?
Also in the programme; France braces for another week of protests by the Gilets Jaunes, and Yemen's peace talks continue in Sweden.
Pascale Harter discusses these and other issues with British author and international affairs commentator Jonathan Steele and South African journalist Verashni Pillay, an editor with Power 987 radio station in Johannesburg.
(Photo: The new chair of the CDU Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Credit: Getty Images)
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- Sat 8 Dec 201807:06GMTBBC World Service
