Angela's Ashes: is this the end of the Merkel project?
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🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As anti-migrant sentiment sweeps across Europe, is the continent turning against Angela Merkel for her open-door policy, and is this the end of the Merkel project (1:40)? Meanwhile, Donald Trump announced his new mission – to establish a sixth branch of the US military, the Space Force. Is this such a bad idea (14:20)? And last, while it may be greedy and corrupt, should Fifa be celebrated for making the World Cup truly global (25:40)?
With Fredrik Erixon, Stefan Kornelius, Christopher Buckley, Jacqueline Klimas, Tim Wigmore, and Freddy Gray.
Presented by Lara Prendergast.
Produced by Cindy Yu.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Seller Plan from Berry Brothers and Rudd, collecting fine wines for future drinking. |
| 0:11.3 | Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Nara Prendergast. As anti-migrant sentiment sweeps across Europe, |
| 0:19.5 | is the continent turning against Angela Merkel and her open-door policy? |
| 0:23.7 | We talk to economist Frederick Erickson and the journalist Stefan Cornelius. |
| 0:27.5 | She has been haunted by problems of not just losing a lot of her support, but also haunted by internal problems in the CDU and in the union with the CSU |
| 0:40.7 | of trying to convince the rank and file of these two parties as well as members of these parties |
| 0:47.0 | that she is still in control. |
| 0:50.7 | Meanwhile, Donald Trump has announced his new mission to establish the sixth branch of the U.S. military, the Space Force. |
| 0:57.5 | My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea. |
| 1:09.8 | We may even have a Space Force, develop another one. Space force. We have |
| 1:15.6 | the Air Force. We have the Space Force. We have the Army, the Navy. You know, I was saying it the |
| 1:22.0 | other day, because we're doing a tremendous amount of work in space. I said, maybe we need a new |
| 1:26.2 | force. We'll call it the Space Force. And I was not really serious. And then I said, what a great idea. Maybe we'll |
| 1:31.7 | have to do that. Is this such a bad idea? And last, while it may be greedy and corrupt, |
| 1:37.8 | should FIFA be celebrated for making the World Cup truly global? On the continent, |
| 1:43.4 | anti-migrant sentiment is being whipped up by leaders like |
| 1:46.5 | Austria's Sebastian Kurtz and Italy's Matteo Salvini. At home, her re-election results were less |
| 1:52.6 | than ideal, and her coalition partner has pushed for a firmestance on migration. |
| 1:57.9 | So is this the end of the Merkel project? In this week's cover piece, economist and writer |
| 2:03.0 | Frederick Erickson argues that she's on fragile footing. He joins me now, together with Stefan |
| 2:08.3 | Cornelius, journalist and author of Merkel's authorised biography. So, Frederick, in your piece, |
| 2:13.9 | you say that not long ago Merkel was seen as the Queen of Europe, and you'd say |
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