is still is a very big challenge and i think that all mainstream parties we need to react to that and to the underlying reasons where people go and vote for them and how do they need to react if you were the policy adviser for the next you know i don't know for the next leaders of the groups in the european parliament what would you tell them what do they need to do well at european level i think the best response would be is to deliver we see that but deliver what to deliver on policy issues i think we have seen over the past 5 to 10 years difficult different crises which we've experienced and there is a good number of homework we need to deal with for example further develop economic and monetary union the solidarity aspects in the area of migration also dealing with this is related to climate change and more concrete ways so there are things which can be done there's homework which should be done over the next years and i think that's the best way of producing strong arguments a guy against all those who are anti forces who just argue against their opinion against the euro against migration issues so i think that's the best way last

question what was the dominating topic looking back for the campaigns was it did did climate change sneak in there and take the top spot as i think it did i think that there was a strong woman some. level and many member states that all these issues related to green issues that we came very strong and on and dominant that is something which many we did not foresee 6 or 9 months ago so it is something which was a bit of a surprise we also saw that migration still was high on the agenda but it was not as high as some thought and last but not least i think it was this liberal versus liberal which was a main issue in the campaign which at the end of the day didn't play into the cards of the liberal forces but i would the liberal forces were able to make a case and in favor of what needs to be denied european climate change certainly took some by surprise some parties doesn't seem like it took the greens by surprise that are riding a green wave at the moment as it looks and with that back. see you soon thank you

very much all right thanks max we'll come back to look at later in the evening. now of voting in a key member state france close just a little over an hour ago and projections there are suggesting a strong victory for marine le pen's far right party the national rally achieving just over 23 percent of the vote that's just ahead of president whole centrist party that won just under 22 percent 10 said the expected result quote confirms the new nationalist globalist division and france and beyond and their party is now calling for the formation of a powerful populist group in the european parliament. that you have some room on there and our correspondent lisa lewis has been tracking all of this for us she's at present bleak and marsh movement in the paris for us lisa what are some of the reactions you're seeing there to these initial results. well not said he was over the head if even a solstice that's the alliance that includes

a man about calls and r.e.m. party so the president's party she was just speaking and saying that millions of people who voted for us this is showing that 2 years on from presidential from the presidential elections and office 6 months of social crisis due to a yellow best protests that our government is still robust and that we will carry out and continue with the reforms that we initiated in on a national level and that we will also be for the 1st time with our hot seat with the i l r e m party in the euro in column and and be the biggest national delegation in that centrist group and there was nobody tried to push the our european agenda so they made here is rather good obviously they admit that they're coming 2nd you know 1st it's that's not such good news but on the other hand to say they're saying it's a good start it's the 1st time we participated in the european elections and. we're

actually quite happy about that all right lisa so that's the positive spin to this result of course that you're hearing there from the president's party what about the other side of this coin the national rally this is a marine le pen's far right party that came out on top at appears from these results that we're seeing but still not as well as marine le pen's previous party is one of the all performed in the last european parliament elections you know so leading up to this what we heard that this is really a battle between the pro european anti european forces what do you make of the marine le pen's results here. well the national rallies will be saying this huge victory for us there is the will probably will be less than 5 years ago when these exit polls if these exit polls are confirmed they are saying that the government needs to draw the conclusions from this and actually at least this all of the national parliament that's here at the end of an assault that election party they'll see people saying that they conquer this that this was

a european election and national action and if you look at it it's kind of in a way somehow a defeat for the far right national ready even if they came 1st because they were hoping for more than 5 years ago to really write the wave of populism and they were hoping to get more than 24 percent especially of the 6 of these 6 months of yellow this french test that could have meant that most people vote for them. all right i personally salute was for us there in a paris taking us through this evening thank you so much lisa. let's turn to germany now as we heard from max projections here showing that i should there are huge gains for the green party which has garnered 21 percent 21.7 percent rather of the vote and that means they're coming in 2nd right after on the markets conservatives beating even of the social democrats let's listen to the chairwoman of germany's green party ana lynn about the. you divide this election was

a climate protection election this election was an election for democracy. demands a human rights for a cosmopolitan europe. i guess that's why the folks which are making us happy and not just green vote. that they are folks for climate protection act they'll vote for democracy they are votes against far right populism they are votes to human rights in all of europe dear friend signing on for a no thank you. to a green wave on one end meanwhile germany's conservatives and america's conservatives took around 28 percent of the vote down around 8 percent from the last election and our chief political editor michelle a kisner is at c.d.u. had quarters for us tonight. is the party of the conservatives satisfied with this result. they're not but they're also happy that it didn't get worse than this

this is pretty much spot on courting to the last polling that everybody hears so leading up to these elections so the conservative c.d.u. party of i. was bracing for this already but it's also clear indication that those big tent parties are losing ground and particularly amongst young voters and this is something the conservatives here are rather concerned about but they're slightly upbeat because they're hoping that this trend will firm up after all they are the strongest party that there will be a trend that might see their top candidates of the european peoples parties germany's monthly to veba have the potential to become the next commission president and i got the chance to catch up with monthly about just as he left the election party here but then heading to proselyte sisson in. the city of ekiti the big tent parties under pressure 6 also the conservative c.d.u. in germany what do you take away from violent city as he is to ensure many of the biggest body of the elections we have still as

a right to call ourselves as the european body of germany and that's why we have the responsibility to lead not to go to brussels to go to strasburg and lead in the german interest but also in 0 being interested is what we want to do. i am the. candidate i have see a whole european union in mind and that's why i'm voting still for all the for the outcome on european level than the final result will be there on the table if the people arrive as the biggest political family then we have survived to to lead in the european union and i want to invite all the others to join to sit together and find a common understanding for the next 5 years the right is so long election night you spoke about stability stability that you want to deliver how anxious are you about german stability right now is really. the german question so i have to be discussed and decided to hear in berlin that's not my main cause i think everybody knows that we need a stable government in germany not only for the european interest but also for the german interest but the bigger thing is that we have

a strong growing support for european democracies that makes me today really proud and happy because people went to war with that participated they used their right to vote to decide about the future of europe and that gives the european parliament much more credibility in negativity for the future of the continent by the future discussion about content and about also see posts and they get the responsibilities and commissioning councils are much more based now on the mandate in the european parliament i believe in this parliament the recession this democrat this asian of european union and that's why today is a great day because people voted by top candidate for the p.p. thank you very much this is. all right so michelle and we heard you there as that very quick key question about stability of germany's government and you were hinting at the fact that the social democrats at the coalition partner of the conservatives also saw pretty significant losses how much concern is there at the city you had quarter so night about the stability of the german government. this is

out of concern but there's also the determination to continue this coalition that is really keeping the current government in place. but the big question is what will now happen within the social democrats if they have yet another political nervous breakdown as they've had so many times in the past and that would be very bad news for uncle or match or who's currently in her final term as german chancellor that could set off a chain reaction of political events that might cut that final term sure which is due to end in 2021 but still far from that the big question now is what the social democrats will stick with their current leadership will stick with and analysis at the top or whether they will start asking questions again about who should be leading them and that will raise a lot of questions and might make this government able once again to really move ahead and deliver some governing which both sides recognize they really need to do

also in the interest of big tent policies overall because one thing is clear they've lost the young voters one sign of that is the rise of the green party but also a lot of farfel over you tube calling on young people not to vote for the established parties all right our chief political editor michelle headquarters for us tonight thanks very much. and you're watching you special coverage of elections for the new parliamentary results flooding in from around the e.u. after an unprecedented voter turnout of 51 percent predictions of strong support for populous parties appear to have materialized in strengths where marie le pen's national rally won just over 23 percent of the vote and in poland where the ruling largest party is leading exit polls with more than 42 percent. we'll have more for you at the top of the hour we'll have the very latest on this election stay with us .

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the book leaving europe. whereas here andy you've gone wrong. what is the general public think about the e.u. these days. how do you feel about the e.u. portion of the rules are decided over our heads and just imposed on us simply britain wants to leave the e.u. would you like germany to leave to go through absolutely and we should go back to the dutch mark so it will be interesting what's the most common preconception about

the e.u. that you hear most for you know that every country does its own thing we don't really have an e.u. . it's going to be i'm horrified by developments such as breakfast and what's happening in hungary you know it's not good that every country does its own thing on its own right now i have my doubts about it of its life or if people are fed up with the e.u. . the most often heard objections are in germany is the use paymaster. the e.u. is too weak. the e.u. is too interfering. is a bureaucratic monster. ok it isn't if you're ok we're going to see if there's any truth to these ideas let's go on further. by the idea. and well with an electric scooter already approved in something new countries and soon to be allowed in traffic in germany 2. we're planning to sound out opinions

not just here but also in interleague poland and possibles. i take the train to hamburg to investigate the idea that germany is the paymaster. that's how the people we surveyed put it. in my opinion we're paying for countries that aren't giving anything themselves just taking it in germany is financially robust and has good economic growth rate in of the but there are other countries that don't and they benefit from us and we're bailing out the southern european countries we're going to be division of the middle countries like greece need to be helped out and that takes effort and no one feels like it. without its supports germany would never have become one of the world's leading exportations. the port of homburg is one of germany's main hubs of goods handling let's start by

crunching the numbers. according to the european commission in 2017 germany was the biggest net contributor to the e.u. . a 10700000000 euros more to brussels than in back. britain france italy and sweden also paid more into the budget than talkback. i'm eating in go a coffee born and bred in hamburg former s.p.v. politician and party spokesman for the maritime economy and now co c.e.o. of port of hamburg marketing. because. of that we've made it a little longer that was quite a climb. this to see some people complain that germany is the e.u.'s paymaster and

they're not wrong the fact is that on balance germany pays more money to brussels.