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
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Distinctly more conservative sebastian courts in just five months he reinvented a party that has been in government for thirty years renaming it since aston courts list and borrowing anti immigration rhetoric from austrias hard right wing populists their leader. Was also a big winner in last sundays elections together the two parties took nearly two thirds of the vote. Election result is being called a tectonic shift abroad as well as in austria so is austrias swing to the right a threat to europe thats the question ill be discussing with my guests its a pleasure to welcome hammond she is a journalist for germanys topps daily newspaper and she says the swing to the right in austria is not an exception but the norm all of europe is shifting to the right. And with us as well as ron kaufman he is detail the use Eastern Europe expert and he says if young the positions itself as a right wing populist force in europe paris will respond with a stronger core europe than the populace surroundin
A white house that have both it seems out of kilter so our question this week on quadriga is trumps first year beyond all reason question mark and this stance that question im joined here in the studio by three excellent observers and analysts beginning with Matthew Carney the chief europe correspondent at politico and matthew argues that it might be tempting to dismiss donald trump as a clown without a coherent agenda but that he says would be a mistake also with us as christiane im i am very familiar face from german t. V. A r d network she believes crazy or not trump is divisive and destructive but worse still are the people who are letting him get away with it she says she smiles to found a warm welcome to our bright opinion editor with balanced target should be a good newspaper and a contributing writer for the New York Times says u. S. Foreign policy under trumping. Not beyond reason but its probably not really trumps only Foreign Policy. Interesting you know i look forward to ta
And its the same picture in much of the rest of europe where traditional broad based parties are increasingly coming under pressure from brash and often aggressive populist parties to win voters over by offering Simple Solutions to complex problems so how should the mainstream parties respond and can they survive so a question on quadriga this week europes far right can the established parties stop them and to discuss that question im joined here in the studio by Matthew Carney chief europe correspondent for politico he says europes populists are here to stay if traditional mainstream parties fail to reinvent themselves its only a matter of time before the fringe supplants them also with us is alan posner a columnist with the berlin david de velde who argues that Political Parties alone cant stop the rise of the far right Civil Society from trade unions to soccer clubs needs to rally. Around liberal democracy and a very warm welcome to to share of the inch watt streams of french german