fraser. good morning, welcome to brussels. boats are still being counted here at the european parliament. it very much feels like the morning after that i before, is a bleary eyes. i can see journalists asleep at the desks, surrounded by the detritus of half eaten food, bottles of water and quite a lot of coffee. no question what a story of the night was, the shift across the continent to the right. the hard right performing well in austria, the netherlands, germany. not so well in poland and slovakia. and, of course, the headline news overnight is the fact that president macron has called that snap election in france, where the national rally took 32% of the vote, compared to his party s 14%. that is a record performance for the national rally. it left the president, in his view, with no option but to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. translation: the rise - of nationalists and demagogues is a dangerfor our nation, but also for europe. i say this even though we h
Is simply part of the landscape. And i suppose i want to spend a few moments talking about why we must resist this. Not only because we have the Fair Housing Act and the wonderful affh rule and because we all believe in integration and because we have devoted our lives, most of us, to fighting against discrimination. But because as a democracy imperati imperative. If this country is to make it, if you and i are to make it, unified, we have to get our hands around this problem of segregation. This past spring when baltimore erupted in days of unrest in the wake of the death of freddie gray in police custody,ier did a lot of media. Some of you may have seen some of it. And when i did that media, i was asked a lot of questions about baltimore. After all, i lived in Baltimore City for 20 years. I now live in Baltimore County for five years. Ive taught at university of Maryland Law School for 22 years. Im a native new yorker, i really transplanted to baltimore and took it on as my home and
Is simply part of the landscape. And i suppose i want to spend a few moments talking about why we must resist this. Not only because we have the Fair Housing Act and the wonderful affh rule and because we all believe in integration and because we have devoted our lives, most of us, to fighting against discrimination. But because as a democracy imperati imperative. If this country is to make it, if you and i are to make it, unified, we have to get our hands around this problem of segregation. This past spring when baltimore erupted in days of unrest in the wake of the death of freddie gray in police custody,ier did a lot of media. Some of you may have seen some of it. And when i did that media, i was asked a lot of questions about baltimore. After all, i lived in Baltimore City for 20 years. I now live in Baltimore County for five years. Ive taught at university of Maryland Law School for 22 years. Im a native new yorker, i really transplanted to baltimore and took it on as my home and
Is simply part of the landscape. And i suppose i want to spend a few moments talking about why we must resist this. Not only because we have the Fair Housing Act and the wonderful affh rule and because we all believe in integration and because we have devoted our lives, most of us, to fighting against discrimination. But because as a democracy imperati imperative. If this country is to make it, if you and i are to make it, unified, we have to get our hands around this problem of segregation. This past spring when baltimore erupted in days of unrest in the wake of the death of freddie gray in police custody,ier did a lot of media. Some of you may have seen some of it. And when i did that media, i was asked a lot of questions about baltimore. After all, i lived in Baltimore City for 20 years. I now live in Baltimore County for five years. Ive taught at university of Maryland Law School for 22 years. Im a native new yorker, i really transplanted to baltimore and took it on as my home and
Is simply part of the landscape. And i suppose i want to spend a few moments talking about why we must resist this. Not only because we have the Fair Housing Act and the wonderful affh rule and because we all believe in integration and because we have devoted our lives, most of us, to fighting against discrimination. But because as a democracy imperati imperative. If this country is to make it, if you and i are to make it, unified, we have to get our hands around this problem of segregation. This past spring when baltimore erupted in days of unrest in the wake of the death of freddie gray in police custody,ier did a lot of media. Some of you may have seen some of it. And when i did that media, i was asked a lot of questions about baltimore. After all, i lived in Baltimore City for 20 years. I now live in Baltimore County for five years. Ive taught at university of Maryland Law School for 22 years. Im a native new yorker, i really transplanted to baltimore and took it on as my home and