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Talks are continuing to try and form a coalition government in Germany. Sarah Haendel of the campaigning organisation More Democracy in Berlin explains the deadlock, and Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank tells us how Germany's economy is handling the uncertainty of the coalition talks. Also in the programme, a bidding war is under way for parts of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. Steven Barnett is professor of communications at the University of Westminster in London, and explains why the US giants Comcast and Verizon are interested in the company. Volkswagen says it will pump tens of millions of dollars into electric cars. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Peter Coy of Bloomberg Business Week in New York, and Rebecca Byrne of the Wall Street Journal in London.

(Picture: Angela Merkel. Picture credit: EPA.)