of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how does that
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From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of freedom in turkey. Today, shes worried that turkey is headed in the wrong dir
From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of freedom in turkey. Today, shes worried that turkey is headed in the wrong dir
From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 50 years ago to escape poverty and the lack of freedom in turkey. Today, shes worried that turkey is headed in the wrong dir