Germany and the EU
Andrew Marr discusses Germany and the EU with Katinka Barysch, Gisela Stuart, Douglas Carswell and Karen Leeder.
On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at Germany's role in Europe. Katinka Barysch argues that despite the crisis, support for EU integration still dominates, and that unlike Britain, the ability to compromise is seen as a skill, not a weakness. Two British MPs, from left and right, Gisela Stuart and Douglas Carswell, remain sceptical about the EU, but German-born Stuart understands her birth country's emotional connection to it. Carswell argues that the digital revolution calls for smaller, not larger governments, and Karen Leeder believes that despite Germany's belief in the European project it still has not laid to rest the ghosts of unification.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
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Katinka Barysch
Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London.
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Gisela Stuart
Gisela Stuart is the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston.
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Douglas Carswell
Douglas Carswell is the Conservative MP for Clacton.
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The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy is published by Biteback Publishing.
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Karen Leeder
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford.
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Spectres of the GDR: The Haunting of the Berlin Republic will be published next year.
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Broadcasts
- Mon 26 Nov 2012 09:0091热爆 Radio 4 FM
- Mon 26 Nov 2012 21:3091热爆 Radio 4
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Programmes looking at the challenges facing modern Germany and providing context.
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