Is Europe Entering A New Level Of Threat?
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Hello, here is an interesting phenomenon. Over the weekend, my social media account was full of claims that Russia's about to launch some kind of attack on Europe and that security is really under threat at the moment. But then half the people I know and speak to in the office today haven't seen any of that on their social media accounts.
What is the real threat Russia poses to Europe right now?
So what is the real threat to Europe from Russia? And if there is no threat, At why are several high profile politicians acting as if there is? That's what we'll discuss on this episode of Newscast. Newscast.
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Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And who better to join all the dots for the security picture across Europe and bring us right up to date with the latest set of disastrous election results for the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz than my old Brexit casting podcasting buddy from Brussels, the BBC's Europe editor, Katcha Adler. And Katcha is here. Hello. Hello. When was the last time we were sat in a studio actually together? Too long ago. Too that's always the answer to that question, isn't it? Um right, we're gonna talk about kind of the big picture in Europe and security and Russia in a second. Because if you're on social media, it seems a little bit scary at the moment. But first of all, let's zoom in on Germany and Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor.
I'm I'm I was quite surprised to wake up and find that he is still the Chancellor.
I know. I mean I I would imagine that Sakir Stam was probably also a bit surprised, isn't he? Because he faced a similar kind of fate not very long in government. He felt he did his absolute best. He was not going down well in opinion polls. Uh the general consensus seemed to be amongst the public, you're not communicating with us well. We don't we just don't believe in you. And even though he said, I'm staying, I'm staying, I'm staying, you know, the credibility Went and off he went. And I think these have been the kind of predictions with Friedrich Matz, because he's a record breaker, but not in a very positive way. So he polls at about 13% in public opinion polls. So he has made history since poll began as someone who came in as the most unpopular Chancellor and then descended even more in public opinion.
Yeah. He's sort of seen as he's a corporate lawyer. So again, that legal uh can. Connection with Sakir Starmer, and he's seen as being remote and arrogant by Germans who are really, really worried about the future of their economy and about migration as well. And he promised on both of those things. His election promise was, you know, I'm gonna solve this, and they just don't think he he has. We've had three regional elections over the past two weeks, and you know, it it It's been disastrous for him. He used the word disastrous himself last night.
And it's you you talk about him being a record breaker. One of the records was from that regional election on Sunday in Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania. Well, Love the Names of German state elections. Actually it is written down here on my laptop. Where
Angela Merkel lived, so it used to be her state.
Yeah, that famous photo of her with the fisherman from the eighties, that's in that state, yeah. Um yeah, so there the CDU didn't even get over five percent in the vote to even have one seat in the in the regional parliament. They're just they're just literally nowhere there.
I mean it's such a slap in the face, and I think I mean obviously we have to talk about the AFD, uh, the sort of anti immigration nationalist party.
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