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The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is about to face Parliament in Berlin to trigger a process intended to lead to elections next February.
His plan to get out of a political crisis after his governing coalition fell apart last month is to lose a vote of confidence in him and go on to win a second term.
But the Poles are against him and so is the German economy.
Once seen as the powerhouse of Europe, it's barely grown in six years.
The BBC's Damian McGuinness joins us live from Berlin now to make more sense of what is happening.
Damien, welcome.
This vote in Parliament has to happen, doesn't it, for there to be an early general election?
Yeah, that's right.
This is effectively, in most cases, the only way that a government can dissolve parliament and spark early elections, because it's all about creating stability in the system.
It's a rule that was set up by the founders of modern Germany.