A prominent groups the Concerts Motto was we are more it began with a Moment Of Silence for the victim of the attack the prompted the initial protests a young man who was stabbed allegedly by migrants now in detention. The far right can germany defeat its demons thats our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests its a pleasure to welcome Matthew Carney jake back to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he says germanys demons are necessary and will never be overcome the question is whether germanys political elite is drawing the bright lessons from history the events of the past week suggest theyre not and its a pleasure to have valerie who theyre with us shes Political Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of spiegel online and shes been reporting on cam thats the f. T. Community is gradually merging with right wing extreme the. Groups in germany she
says if the moderates in the party fail to take a stand against this development they will inevitably be d
back to work they re not thanks and for it where before they were and i think that s a big part of what the f.d.a. is making making possible for the new right matthew some people would say mainstream politicians are also lowering the threshold to the phobic talk and the person i mean in particular would be the head of the chancellor s sister party the very conservative party he said just this week apparently in an internal party meeting that he thinks the main problem in germany today is migration horsy hoffa has he in fact helped to normalize the kind of xenophobia we re now seeing on the streets well i think we d have to know exactly what he meant by that i think he might have meant that this migration crisis which and the handling of the crisis and the political fallout from it is the mother of all crises politically in germany now because it has opened the door in many people s view to this search by the a.f.p. which you know is you know wasn t even on the map really in two thousan
just go back to work if they re not thanks and for it whereas before they were and i think that s a big part of what the f.d.a. is making making possible for the neo right matthew some people would say mainstream politicians are also lowering the threshold to the phobic talk and the person i mean in particular with the the head of the chancellor sister party the very conservative party he said just this week apparently in an internal party meeting that he thinks the main problem in germany today is migration horsy hoffa has he in fact helped to normalize the kind of xenophobia we re now seeing on the streets well i think we d have to know exactly what he meant by that i think he might have meant that this migration crisis which and the handling of the crisis and the political fallout from it is the mother of all crises politically in germany now because it has opened the door in many people s view to this search by the if d. which you know is you know wasn t even on the map really in t