Of foreigners who commit crimes. Pegia. Acronym for are these concerns about refugees or expressing entrenched racism and xenophobia . Your host this week, melinda crane. Hello and welcome to quadriga. For the past two years, german has taken in more Asylum Seekers than any other country in the world. Yet it long appeared to be one of the few european nations without a rising antiimmigration right wing. Do the demonstrations signal a isolated is pagida an phenomenon and how should the government respond . Thats what we want to talk about with three people following the event vezz closely. Its a pleasure to welcome a tirkishborn writer whos been publishing poetry, essays and prose in germany since 1979. Hes taught at leading universities in the u. S. And regular commentator in german media. And bettina gouse is with us. A political corespondent for the german daily newspaper and formally headed its for lamentry bureau. She reported from africa and written several books on politics and m
things that hollande has proposed which are being portrayed as very left wing are not as leftist as they might seem when you get up close. take, for example, his proposal to reverse some of the pension reforms of mr. sarkozy. what he is basically saying is he is going to allow some people to retire at 60 who had already worked from the age of 18 and built up all their contributions. i think he s going to inevitably be in the center. jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think he s already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that he s going to look after the public finances. we don t yet know the details of how he s going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that because that go toing to hurtment but i think this man know
inevitably be in the center. jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think he s already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that he s going to look after the public finances. we don t yet know the details of how he s going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that because that go toing to hurtment but i think this man knows perfectly well, what the constraints are and that s why he needs to get from the other european leaders a package of growth measures so can come home and say look, i ve got these measures that sarkozy never got from angela merkel in germany. now the other side of that coin is we still have to bite the bullet. francois hollande is basically someone with little government experience and actually no gove
jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think he s already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that he s going to look after the public finances. we don t yet know the details of how he s going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that because that go toing to hurtment but i think this man knows perfectly well, what the constraints are and that s why he needs to get from the other european leaders a package of growth measures so can come home and say look, i ve got these measures that sarkozy never got from angela merkel in germany. now the other side of that coin is we still have to bite the bullet. francois hollande is basically someone with little government experience and actually no government experience apart from
jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think he s already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that he s going to look after the public finances. we don t yet know the details of how he s going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that because that go toing to hurtment but i think this man knows perfectly well, what the constraints are and that s why he needs to get from the other european leaders a package of growth measures so can come home and say look, i ve got these measures that sarkozy never got from angela merkel in germany. now the other side of that coin is we still have to bite the bullet. francois hollande is basically someone with little government experience and actually no government experience apart from