Hello, my name is David Runtzerman and this is a special live edition of Talking Politics.

We're coming to you from the Kings Place Politics Festival.

It is Sunday afternoon, England have just beaten Panama 6-1.

Last night, Germany in the 95th minute I think stayed in the World Cup so Germany

are still at the heart of the World Cup.

We are going to be talking about where the Germany is still at the heart of European

Politics and we're going to be focusing on the questions of populism and migration.

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So I've got Helen Thompson with me and also Chris Bickerton.

We're going to be taking questions from our audience.

We're going to talk about anything that they want to talk about.

But to start with, we want to try and make sense of the map of European politics today

and the new divisions that are emerging all the time around the migration crisis.

And this is a fast moving story, particularly in Germany and we're going to talk quite a lot

about Germany.

Angela Merkel is probably in more trouble than she has been at any point in her time as

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