His Movie Theater in kenya is a dark dark refugee camp. His life story may have ground to a halt. 27 years ago but theres no holding back his dreams. Thank you for watching. Cinema starts may 27th on a double. For hollywood a very warm welcome indeed to quadriga coming to you from the heart of europe and awful concern is all this weekends of actions to the European Parliament where it has been widely assumed that populist far right parties might grab as many as a quarter of all the seats in the parliament but then scandal in austria and the
collapse of the countrys Coalition Government between conservatives and the populist right this after secretly filmed Video Footage emerged apparently showing the leader of the Freedom Party promising State Contracts to a woman posing as the niece of a Russian Oligarch so on the eve of a Watershed Election for europe our question here on quadriga this week is Video Scandal election blowed to europes fall. And to discuss that question im joined here In The Studio by Matthew Carnage Snake chief europe correspondent for politico and he says the austrian video makes it harder for the far right to deny who they really are but also with us is george about his own in many ways Shas The French Born Correspondent believes that its make or break for the union amidst the demise of australias far right sundays Election Outcome will seal the fate of europe she seems. Very warm welcome tunes occurrence
a lot of political activists and consultants affiliated with you having Social Democrats who argues that we should not be shocked when Racist Anti Constitutional and criminal right wing populist do been saying things that are racist but i dont see constitutional and you know just thank you all 3 things that i think the statements of the top of the show him only well i would like to begin with you and as you will be well aware here in germany the term that everybodys using to do is to talk about the importance of this election this weekend theres a shiksa its a sort of a very heavy german term destiny and fate or you have said yourself it will seal the fate of you or what you mean well it definitely feels like its because if the populists do when a majority of seats in the European Parliament we do know that they dont intend to keep europe as it is they want to make it implode basically so we basically whats
at stake on sunday eased the fate of europe and your president mr mccraw has said never before has europe been in such danger tell me a little bit more about his fears that well you know last week steve benen the former trump advisor was in france to support mine append so we see all the Populist Parties across europe unite and what we see there is that theres a unity of those parties in the in the the will of one thing that this dismantle the dismantling of europe the thing is that they managed to show unity while any other party every other party Shows Division and that is a very dangerous method that has been a tendency in the past to sort of look or European Elections as sort of a little bit boring the people of europe dont know who their politicians are though really kind of dont vote vote very much as your imagination being. Funny
adam this time around have you view it as it has been proved a little bit entertaining perhaps the whole process has been different it has been a bit different its certainly been entertaining in the strength of the far right is obviously you know something that i think has made a lot of people pay more attention to this campaign than they normally would im not convinced that its going to bring the masses of voters to the ballot box that some people are hoping for and that will be a very important factor in how well the far right does i dont think theres a danger that theyll win all the polls suggest that theyll be you know solid backing again for the for the main String Parties but the far right will do well and it will allow them presumably in the years to come to gum up the system a bit and brussels and in the e. U. Before we talk lets just rewind a little bit in talk about this video that has emerged in austria tell us what in
essence the story is. Well the story is basically that the video with was taken over a 7 hour period and you had a couple of people posing as you know these shady russian figures trying to buy influence into austria in various ways and there we see that the head of the Freedom Party has Christian Straka offering to do deals with them and sort of brings a solution thats going on its truly astonishing its breathtaking and i think thats why he had to resign within 12 hours of the video being released Sebastian Chords the chancellor of austria called new elections within 24 hours so if theres anything good about what happened in austria over the weekend i think we can say that it showed that in a western european. Democratic country that the institutions are still working despite the influence of the far right there its important to remember that the Freedom Party was a member of the government. And had more than
a quarter of the of the votes in the last witness defense for most of the populist right wing part of this but im going to be in government right and they are have just been much more successful over the years in austria than they have in other countries this is the 2nd time in recent years that they were a member of a Governing Coalition karen taylor one of the one of the topics of our discussion today is inevitably going to be values and i have a quote from the woman whose german is Justice Minister who is the lead candidate for the Social Democrats in this European ElectionKatherina Bali and what she says is will europe remain liberal cosmopolitan and based on cooperation or will it become authoritarian and nationalistic and full of hate do you share her assessment absolutely and we see that. We have this division and this polarization off people who want more integration of people who want more unity of the european
context and on the other side people who try to stress on their on their National Context as people and parties must say who would rather pull out of europe than continuing this yeah one must say Success Story of europe and within this frame and its not enough to only dismantle your up but to really put pressure and to endanger minorities to to to spread fear and to spread hate be it on social media or even on the streets so this question off havent havent this to call listen its not only. Important when we work at europe but it also regards every city sing sing us citizens within their perspective home country the when we talk about Values Life Cosmopolitan values for example its very difficult at this point in time because there are so many ordinary voters who are increasingly pro. Out of saying that they are not liberal indeed liberal is for them a dirty word theyre proud to say we are illiberal the question is of what to do well as they lead to candidate of the social Democratic Party its absolutely obvious why she stressed on the on these values rather than on the conservative values are if you would rather look a diverse area and maybe even the right wing values if you could call them as such so its for me its not surprising that she she talked about these values because what weve seen in the past is that people who would consider themselves liberal and who would consider themselves being paired off in or been movement they were too quiet in the past their voices and also they have votes where not enough in order to hold back at this right Wing Movement so we need these people now to
see. That important they have in order to sustain the europe as we have it run or not to go yeah it was not in about. That does this just makes me think of the situation in france where we have to divest movements which was quite representative of people having a feeling they were unheard and that is a major impediment for india coming elections for emanuel because hes the pro european candidate which has the more chances whose party has the more chances to gather the most votes but hes not liked by a lot of french people and who is the party who shows an understanding to the problems of the citizens according to their propaganda it is a High Standard on our of mind of ben which has in the nest and that nationalistic agenda which is completely a paradox there run for office in the European Union which is a transnational which transcends. Those nationalism yet to their want to be
elected the European Parliament in order to develop their nationalist agenda. Ok before we move on lets just listen to an extract a short extract from that video weve been referring to where the far right Freedom Party leader talks about helping the Russian Oligarch to take over the krooman sites and that is one of australias most widely circulated newspapers. As soon as she takes over the crown of paper a soon as that happens we have to talk openly we have to sit down together this this and this is what we have at the krona. 34. 00 people we have to push them 34. 00 people have to be done to. Bring in 5 new ones right away which will build up thats to deal. With the one common sights and suggest that this video quote leaves the european far right in disarray and plays into the hands of centrist and leftist forces ahead of this weekends election what do you say. You know if i were i would go that far i think it might be Wishful Thinking on the part of that commentator i certainly think that it does show who these people really are what the far right really means in terms of the Democratic Values of the country there certainly will be a huge effect in Austria Reentering to see what the effect of this is in germany because the Freedom Party has had very close ties to the alternative for Germany Party here in germany theres been a lot of consultation going back and forth and there are plenty of pictures out there showing the leaders of the f. T. Together with the leaders of the Freedom Party which the other parties in germany over the past week have been very happy to send around so i think that there might be an effect there what the fact is beyond there it gets
a little bit more difficult to predict because people like the tales of any in italy or Marine Le Pen in france will say well thats austria that has nothing to do with us and you know what well see well see what effect it has but there is no doubt i think that what this video shows is whats at stake for. Europe with this rise in populism and if any state in terms of the Freedom Of The Press quite explicitly in the sequence that we just listened to well absolutely and i think this is one of the main reasons that struck the it was Vice Chancellor in austria there. Had to resign right away because people saw that this is just you know completely Beyond The Pale and you know that in the end the other aspect of this is that the paper that we were talking about is not just one of the most popular newspapers australia its one of the most read newspapers in the world on a per capita basis that reaches almost half of the austrian population every day
and not just that but it already is a right wing paper in our view supported the Freedom Party to give a warning why would he want to take even more influence over this and it just shows that we know the way these far right minds are working he referred to viktor orban in hungary and said you know what we want to have a Media Landscape like that and hungry and hungry orban has basically taken control through his cronies of the entire Media Establishment and i think that has to be quite shocking not just of people in austria but and the rest of europe as well moon well i know this is a crude aspect of the story very close to your home in germany its very important as people are presently these days of celebrating the post 2nd World War Constitution To germany so rightly proud of Freedom Of The Press is one of the sort of the cornerstones of that constitution moment i know theres a sort of a Friendship Spec to this story that you can tell us about exactly well when victor obama was elected in hungary i was quite shocked by. Seeing what was happening to
the press in hungary and yet if you look at the friends at the moment yesterday one of the legion that is newspaper le monde was kind of vote by to Homeland Security office and so for her work for the moment and she is the 5th french journalist 5th french journalist having been asked to. Give an account about where shes been reporting on the big scandal. So there is theres a wave of kind of intimidation from the government was janet is in a country where no one would think that the press. Was inventor and that is quite wearing karen out lets come back to your quote that intrigued me very much of the start of the show when you said we should not be shocked when racist and constitutional criminal right wing populist do and say things exactly of that nature make the case for the 50 or so the challenge that you are making of Racist Anti Constitutional and criminal well weve seen with the slogan off of theFreedom Party in Austria Austrian Money austrian people these are quite structures which you could link to a far example which i would see as quite constitutional and weve seen and thats not only case weve seen that in germany with the alternative for german for germany the party which is also part of the talk right now the leading Opposition Party tends to be said absolutely absolutely well we also have scandals linked to watts donations illegal donations for the party you seen it in france where european money was. Derived into departed directly so all these cases i would say its the nature of these right wing Populist Parties all these cases out there and still people. Are
reluctant to see the reality behind this behind us parties and even more all. The discussions they lead if i look at the German Bundestag for example that threatening discussions for minorities in germany it doesnt only stay in the bundestag but it leads to consequent actions on the streets if. For germany. Amended uses the word. Girl. Never really deliver to the. Way this leads to actions on the streets in the women with heat up get in. Theyd be spat out on the on the street people tear their they had their heads a pregnant woman has been punched in the stomach so if we see that the that the sentiment of the this parties is something which we already see on the
streets and which is a dangerous thing for people of minorities ok lets find out a little bit about what the far right you are of europes far right Euro Skeptic Leaders have to say one figure stands out of course thats italys. Video hes head of the party simply known as the league and he invited some of his populist allies to milan the Northern Italian city of the weekend in a show of strength. He loves a good show to the dulcet tunes of puccini my tail selbie me head of the legal north invokes his vision of a new right wing European Alliance. And he loves drama the European Election he says is a matter of life and death. Story corp we are experiencing a historical moment. So important stuff we need to do everything we can to free this country to free this confidence from the illegal occupation of brussels has
been orchestrating for many years. She too wants to see a european revolution and awakening of the people in the path of frances right wing figurehead. Such as we dont want this European Union any large issue that has brought the ill winds of globalization upon europe. They want to form a European Alliance of people and nations ideally with Poland Hungary and the u. K. But within the European Parliament the nationalist leaders are anything but unified how strong is europes right wing. County which is making the case against the far right in terms of so