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Stemming the extreme-right tide

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

European Union foreign ministers gathered in Kyiv this week for their first-ever meeting outside the union, but leaders are on edge across the West after a series of political earthquakes. In a recent New York Times column, Oxford University history professor Anton Jager wrote, "Europe's extreme-right tide has been a long time coming.” He joins the program alongside Liana Fix, Fellow for Europe for the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss the latest news.  Also on today's show: author Ruth Simmons; Jessica Bennett, Contributing Editor, The New York Times & Mitch Prinstein, Chief Science Officer, American Psychological Association  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunburg. Here's what's coming up.

0:09.0

The far right marches into the mainstream from America's MAGga to Sweden and Italy and beyond.

0:15.6

We look at what's driving this trend now, also ahead.

0:19.2

When you educate yourself, when you succeed, when you succeed when you advance you're advancing your entire

0:26.2

family from the cotton fields of East Texas to the first black Ivy League

0:31.4

president my conversation with Brown University's Ruth Simmons,

0:35.8

as she traces her journey with a new memoir up home.

0:39.7

Plus.

0:40.7

Hi, I'm Addie, I'm 13 years old and I live in North Shore Michigan and I'm finishing at middle school in Denver, Colorado.

0:47.0

Teenage Anst Today, the New York Times Jessica Bennett and psychologist Mitch Princeton tell Harry Streinavassen about the long-term effects

0:55.8

of social media on kids' brains. And then. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in in London a show of support at a

1:24.4

crucial time as EU foreign ministers gathered in Kyve this week for their first

1:29.6

ever meeting outside the Union but nerves are jangling across the West, after far-right

1:35.7

Republicans in the U.S. trying to shut down government threatened funding for Ukraine

1:40.7

in its fight against Russia's invasion and after Putin's sympathizer

1:44.6

Robert Fitzo led his party to victory in Slovakia. While on the campaign trail the

1:50.0

former Prime Minister had said that if elected he would stop sending weapons to

1:54.4

Keeve appealing to a rise in anti-Western and pro-Russian sentiment.

1:59.4

That is something the far right has also tapped into across the continent from Hungary to Italy to

2:05.1

Finland to Germany. In a recent New York Times column, Oxford University

2:09.8

History Professor Anton Yeager says quote, Europe's extreme right tide has been a long time coming.

2:16.0

I spoke to him, Antiliana Fix, of the Council on Foreign Relations,

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