a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and they are nazis.

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and they are nazis.

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the.

hello and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and neo nazis.

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east why.

low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and the far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and they are nazis that was the case recently in the eastern city of curtain the death of a young man following an altar cation with migrants brought many out on to the streets. this is led to fears that right wing radicals are instrumental izing such demonstrations to gain support for their messages. so what's behind the anger fueling the protests in germany's east and why are so many people in this region especially open for the arguments of the far right one way of better understanding that is to look closely at what happened in the years after communist east germany collapsed now that's according to peter cupping she's the minister for integration in the state of saxony she experienced that era firsthand and knows what it's like person

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian thomas across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemists for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally stabbed.

a low and welcome to focus on europe i'm brian thomas europe's nationalist and far right parties are continuing to make gains in europe and in germany that's especially true in the country's east one of the consequences germans out on the streets protesting against immigration are now finding themselves side by side in demonstrations with skinheads and they are nazis.

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian thomas across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemist's for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally stabbed allegedly by migrants but over the weekend there was a very different cabinets a rock concert for tolerance brought together some sixty five thousand people showing their support for migrants all sweden is another country to see a spike in far right support as its government struggles with integrating tens of thousands of new markets the far right sweden democrats have risen steadily in the polls and now have the backing of about twenty five percent of voters but this high level of support comes with a price and our next report we need a street worker in malmo who says sweetness shift to the right could bring even deeper divisions in urban areas fighting a surge in crime. my attitude he is just in time to break up a dis

a low and welcome to this edition of focus on europe i'm brian thomas across europe right wing parties have been placing crimes committed by migrants at the center of their election campaigns the move has been winning votes in the german city of chemists for example there were demonstrations and far right rallies which included neo nazis after a man was fatally stabbed.

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i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the program german chancellor all a macro's in the french city of marsay right now for talks with president of money well mccraw fronts their aim bringing europe forward as they put it the two have been discussing key european issues like migration euro zone reform and bracks it this meeting comes at a time when both leaders are facing deep political problems at home mccrone as whining on machall support for his ambitious for. well merkel and mccrone will meet again next week in the salzburg austria where european leaders hope to bridge their differences on migration to talk about all of this with me in the studio is our chief political editor michelle or. michelle and you have used a max hoffman is out the talks for us in march say welcome to both of you max if we could start with you what's on the agenda today. naturally you know after the summer break that leaders and their staff usually say they're going to talk about all kinds of things for example foreign policy issues like syria like ukraine like the western balkans but we all know what's top of the agenda specially for the german chancellor are going to back its migration and french pr