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And it's 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 europe's far right can the established parties stop them and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by matthew carney chief europe correspondent for politico he says europe's populists are here to stay if traditional mainstream part...

Identity threatened their identity is strongly german but they see a governor government's. transcending the sovereignity to the european union. so that's that's definitely a risk factor if you cannot get these people along on your story in the european union you're going to have a problem on the long term. but i think the internal cohesion in germany is in risk also because this coalition doesn't have any idea about how to multicultural society about integration of big groups of minorities and there is not much in this coalition agreement and those are the answers many germans who vote for br...

They say it all the time may i just interrupt here because i would like to come back to the culture of remembrance and ask you. after those december protests that we saw the pictures. there were calls from a number of people for there to be mandatory visits to remembrance sites such as concentration camps for those young muslims in germany you said we have a problem particularly with young muslim men including young muslim men who have been here for quite some time with that be a good idea would that make a difference anything men dettori with teenagers will not work that's a very important po...

Posner the former german president. said to two years ago there is no german identity without auschwitz remembering the holocaust remains a concern for all citizens who live in germany but can we really expect migrants to germany to share that view and also perhaps very young germans who say hey that's ago. well there's just two aspects to this. the first aspect is this is not a german question the holocaust was and remains. something that that is that is important for every person everywhere in the world whether you're a german whether you're a jew whether you're a german jew whether you're a...

Says germany needs a more inclusive no more. of culture and more backbone in the fight against all forms of marginalization and we're very pleased to have alan posner on the show once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper devoted he says jews everywhere are held responsible for every real or imagined injustice perpetrated by israel and finally very glad to welcome them so mikulski to the show he's the director of human rights watch and he has experienced the problem we're talking about first hand he says anti-semitism in germany is escalating and increasingly normalized and the stat...