Overview

• The episode airs Wednesday at 23:15 on ZDF, with streaming to follow overnight in the ZDF-Mediathek.
• Confirmed guests are Manfred Weber, Isabelle Schaefers, Mariam Lau and Bente Scheller.
• Weber is slated to react to yesterday’s UN address by Donald Trump and to assess Europe’s security and Germany’s role in the Middle East.
• Schaefers, the Brussels-based NATO specialist, will examine rising friction between Moscow and the Western defense alliance.
• Lau will dissect CDU/CSU disputes over Israel policy, saying Friedrich Merz is “trapped in a kind of strategic loneliness,” while Scheller calls recognition of Palestine “symbolic.”