All of these things and obviously also politically the f. T. Is much stronger in these in these states than it is in western western states but i have to say i dont agree with you on that it would be a catastrophe for democracy if the left party and the city you went into a coalition in book i think its actually quite interesting. Contests trees for democracy if not interesting that theyre just raised on the list. What you need in new york chrissy is is. A balance between right and left and and if you have the seed you really forming a coalition with what used to be the communist governmental body in east germany just to prevent. To avoid going into a collision with a de then i think democracy really is being stretched to its head and it. Interesting though it might be to see its within its head thats not something something id like it would also be hypocritical because quite frankly the if de is
not worse than the left party you have both pseudo toted totalitarian. Democratic anti wes
socialistic brother country with. those where those were only a few and they were very much kept separate from the public so they weren t even allowed to really interact so there was never any basis of sort of understanding of multiculturalism i think that s a big part michaud tell us a little bit about the role of the a.f.p. in connection with. anti migration sentiment in fact it s become an absolute signature issue for the a.f.p. what s driving that well because it s clearly resonated with voters on the opinion polls the being an anti euro party it then took a turn to the right and now to the very far right in pots and it was almost vanishing from the political scene when 2015 came around what became known as the migration crisis in germany you can video follow that line quite easily and
not worse than the left party you have both pseudo toted totalitarian. democratic anti west anti nato anti european parties and i don t agree with me i just come back to the question of the unification and the success of reunification ality hernot has said that in many ways east and west absolutely have integrated and converge but michel if we look at surveys recent surveys we see significant divergences in political attitudes for example one survey shows a great deal less support for democracy itself in the east than in the west i think it s 42 percent of east germans said they re enthusiastic about democracy compared with 75 percent of west germans too what do you attribute that kind of divergence and in fact less than half support in east germany for the system itself
related to cold most of that will be in these eastern states just to put it into perspective the finance minister reckons that a crisis the size of the financial crisis would cost germany 50000000000 euro so that is a lot of money that is now sent east but the experience of people in the east is that money didn t really solve the structural problems i want to come back to the economics in just a moment but. looking at your opening statement talking about an authoritarian revolt say a little bit if you would about political attitudes in the east what did you mean by that and does that mean you see this far right party the a.f.d. as a north or a terry and party. yes i d like to go to court you said because to say that democracy didn t deliver is simply wrong of course we delivered we live democracy itself we delivered freedom of speech we delivered freedom of movement we delivered freedom of expression we delivered