Merz elected German Chancellor - at second time of asking

梅尔茨再次当选德国总理

World Business Report

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2025-05-06

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Will Bain hears from Germany where Friedrich Merz has become Chancellor - after unexpectedly suffering a setback in the first round of voting in Parliament. His party ,the Christian Democrats, have agreed a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats, promising a responsible and stable administration that'll boost Germany's stagnant economy. The UK and India have announced a free trade deal after years of negotiations, which the British prime minister Kier Starmer called a historic day for both countries. Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is set to sit down with President Trump to discuss easing some of their trade tensions. OpenAI, the parent of artificial intelligence service ChatGPT, has announced a new governance plan after a bitter power struggle over the business and criticisms from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report on the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Will Bain.

  • Great to have your company as always on the programme.

  • Today, what was supposed to be a formality became a farce in Germany's parliament.

  • We'll be live in the country's economic hub, Frankfurt,

  • shortly to try and work out what it all means economically.

  • Also today,

  • Canada's former central bank governor turned prime minister enters something of a trade tariff lion's den.

  • And it doesn't sound like Mark Carney is going to get that warm a welcome from President Trump.

  • I'm not sure what he wants to see me about, but I guess he wants to make a deal.

  • Everybody does.

  • Yeah, we'll have more on that shortly.

  • And what does it mean now that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,

  • will remain a not-for-profit firm?

  • We'll be taking a look before we leave you today.

  • on World Business Report.

  • Busy day, busy programme.

  • As you can hear, lots of geopolitics, trade, economics about.

  • We're also going to be talking about a trade deal that's been signed in the last hour or so between the UK and India.

  • But we're going to kick off the programme today in Germany,