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00:00We've had an official comment from the foreign policy spokesman for the SPD,
00:05which is Chancellor Solti's party.
00:07Neil Schmidt, who's a member of the German Bundestag, the German parliament,
00:11has said that the worst has been avoided.
00:14Macron is politically weakened.
00:16Even if he retains a central role in view of the unclear majority situation,
00:21forming a government will be complicated.
00:24He's saying that the French must now show flexibility
00:29and an ability to compromise to form a working coalition,
00:33which is something the Germans know a lot about.
00:37But Schmidt also added that he thought that these negotiations
00:41would be quite long drawn out and pretty complicated.
00:44We've also had reaction from some of the leading German newspapers
00:48with Faz Daly saying the crisis isn't over, quite the opposite.
00:54We're headed for a period of instability in France and across Europe
00:58with a fragile government coalition in France.
01:02Bild, it's the most popular magazine,
01:07sorry, it's the most popular daily in Germany,
01:10wonders whether Jean-Luc Mellotton may become the leader of France.
01:17They say he's contemptuous of Germany, so they're a bit worried about that.
01:21And the centre-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung says
01:25the Republican Front stopped Le Pen and RN,
01:28but Parliament's going to be very fragmented
01:31and Macron has isolated himself on the Mount Olympus of power.
01:35So the German reaction, pretty mixed,
01:38basically a large dollop of advice there,
01:40get your act together and have a coalition work,
01:44and some concerns about how that may unfold
01:47and what that may mean for Germany
01:49and what that may mean for French-German relations.