the prague spring big and small acts of resistance world events mixed with family history. also has an immigrant background his parents were afghan refugees his stories deal with modern realities a rightwing mob attacks a refugee shelter in germany in one thousand nine hundred two. and suspension law it is a big fight. it was talk also learned of. his latest project also looks at germany through the eyes of a newcomer. not often from working on a remake of berlin alexanderplatz it was based on the novel by alfred berkeley not written in one thousand nine hundred thirty but we're setting it in the modern day in twenty eighteen my main character is a refugee a man who made his way across the sea by boat and has landed in berlin now he's trying to find his way in this strange new world this new germany because of. nasscom one has already won a german tom price his latest film premiered at the pan in on their school class the communist east germany observes a minute's silence for those killed in hungary an uprising of nine hundred fifty six with dramatic consequences. that's ri

over the last years, but it's a tradition in austria ever since 1956, we do it in 1968 during the prague springing we do not believe that a simple distribution of people who have come from which ever parts can be redistributed according to a quota system and this is the magic bullet, the silver bullet solution, that, we say... chancellor kurz. .. ..that you have to think in a border way. yeah. chancellor kurz is, of course, very aware that austria is soon going to assume the presidency of the european council. and he has suggested that we need to fundamentally shift our approach, that is the eu's approach to the migration challenge. some in your country, including the interior minister, have talked about a paradigms shift, a copernican revolution, so what on earth is austria's big idea for getting europe out of this migration mess? because for the simple reason that the current asylum system that we still work with was created in a pre—globalised world. we have now a completely different form of communication and mobility on a global level. so what we have to do is to update, to adapt instrumen

. -- prague spring.austria is going to assume the presidency of the european council. he has suggested that we need to fundamentally shift our approach, the eu's approach to the migration challenge. some, including the interior minister, have talked about their paradigms shift, a copernican revolution, so what is off‘s big idea for getting europe out of this migration mess —— austria's idea? the system we still work with was created in a pre— globalised world. we now have a completely different form of communication ability on a global level. what we have to do with update to adapt instruments which are at our disposal, whether it is the so—called dublin three agreement, which you just mentioned, when it comes to people who have been registered in one eu country for their cases to be delpierre —— dealt there. when we talk about are keeping a schengen space, what we mean not only a protection of our external borders, and we are not speaking about the austrian borders, we are speaking about the external bo

in eastern europe gives him us but after all nine hundred sixty eight was also the year of the prague spring. people felt that things were about to change that is for it's a first for him and it's to teach us alexander dubcek took over as the leader of czechoslovakia's communist party. in january nineteenth sixty eight and soon tried to implement some cautious reforms people in other countries were paying close attention to these developments. don't look at. the third way and socialism with a human face while that was really something that people were excited about it just like they welcome the new youth culture you know. so it was great for the off we hope that his reforms would spread through east germany or this and that they would take hold of me as well as the east german authorities put a stop to that in a hurry as that was the end of our hopes but they're not just the hopes of young people in other third go and. you know it's as if she's on bond today i'll tell you what the thinking at the time among our parents and others was be careful guidance as in the political we could talk abou