europe now because not only in germany the greens have had good results but also with france with about 13 percent that has been that's pretty little you know unseen before so this will make things more complicated but for now it seems like those parties the greens the liberals the conservatives and also the social democrats will be able to keep the right wing populists out of the picture but you know think about this it is likely that at least either the lead from the tail so the in italy so rightly populist party or the drugs authority from the u.k. will provide the biggest national group in the european parliament so even if the other parties are able to deal with this now through coalitions if this trend continues then at some point it will reach breaking point and they will no longer be able to exclude the right we call list from the decision making in the european parliament to fragmenting landscape there in brussels a picture as we said slowly becoming clearer as the night progresses max hoffman

for us i will talk to a bit later max thank you. and let's get a reminder now into how tonight's elections for the european parliament are shaping up results flooding in from around the e.u. after an unprecedented voter turnout of 51 percent predictions of strong support for a populist party's appeared to have materialized in france where marina pens national rally won just over 23 percent of the vote and in poland where the ruling law and justice party is leading exit polls with more than 42 percent but concerns about climate change i have also goes to the pro e.u. greens across the bloc. all right until now we have been getting a partial vote results will be back at the top of the hour with the 1st a visual results coming in and we'll of course bring you more now since our continuing special election. stay with us.

influence when it comes to young people. and not trying to be european and russian and nobody can. go to that. young activist sound working hard

for the european idea. and this time working hard against it. europe's young people europe's future. next. sometime in the 26th. my great granddaughter. what made the world seem like in your own life time in around half a century. your world will be around true degrees moment. inevitably sea levels rise by at least one member of the central. we're going to have some climate impacts return greater than we see over me. that's really frightening for. the. player.

why are people more concerned. little yellow bird shorts may 31st on t.w. . europe and its young people a complicated relationship. a demonstration against climate change and interested in the european election because it's good for you what about you not really. you voters is out of mind i think my parents will make me vote saying we are. we wanted to find out what young people think about europe we visited several e.u. countries including germany we met people who were committed to the european concept . because it is votes and those who are opposed to it.

the cycle to erupt means nothing to me but. how can politicians get young people interested to vote because i do we want europe to have a future of young people here need a future who can. shape . we travel to come on in early march right in the middle of a windstorm. the stormy times for europe. and the moment he is trying to get young people to vote in the upcoming european election. just the way all of europeans part of the e.u.

we're like a family media type of us are stunned by my dad's french and my mom's german so europe is really important to me as we head to you with other games and. this event is part of an e.u. parliament effort to get out the values it's called this time i'm voting volunteers can sign up on a website. to vote and focus on begin on we want to get out into the streets and explain to people why this election matters it's. more than 250000 volunteers straw out of europe have already registered the parliament provides information brochures and other materials but unfortunately no one promised. bothered to do something. like. this are you going to vote no for europe why not don't know how come on at least

think about it you know it's a please please vote when you vote why no it's pointless why it's no use come on. the volunteers don't discuss issues they just want people to vote might not you should be proud that you can vote for concrete a team dismissed me as the political parties are responsible for addressing specific issues. i have to remain absolutely neutral because it's when young comics companies kinds of campaigns really get out the vote research class pearlman is an expert on how young people think and behave. must be very much i have my doubts about a general sort of campaign and the young people will vote in european elections only if the campaign addresses specific issues that are important to them but it does so with the policy. missions want more young people to vote they'll have to

talk about those issues because this one of the volunteers is deanna ven she's a star on you tube an instagram and says the european concept is important for young people. and it's a tie with it so i think it's totally important to show that in the united europe we can have more innovation and opportunity especially for young people. that like it has more influence than individual countries continents or powerful corporations have. for 6 years now indiana has been posting photos and videos on the internet. investment i rigorously i shoot most of my videos in my bedroom i like that homey feeling because it brings you closer to the viewers who are. deanna has more than 600000 new chewed subscribers she usually talks about fashion and cosmetics at the

comes welcome to a new video today i'm going to talk about a topic close to my hut i said you know i. this is my favorite right now. yeah that's why i like this and not it's not floor length your legs may get cold i think. diana has turned into a profession for cosmetics and fashion companies pay her to promote their products and videos so they can reach her followers. who comes from there so you do politics now you have. to i'm sort of a role model and i have a community that i can exchange ideas with. that i'm into politics now so i wanted to share that to me was the tires. today deanna is in brussels the e.u. parliament has invited several internet implements of us to campaign on behalf of europe. i have you to. talk with us to influence on posh and how to

i hope they'll create some nice content and post it online and maybe that will have their followers interested in europe and the upcoming election. oh. come on come help out interconnected your. efforts that's it. do young people take the e.u. for granted because they don't know what the all jews are up was like to find out more about that we travel to pictures. of these young people are part of the erasmus student exchange program they come from all over europe. he comes from phil austria england i'm from muscleman

i'm from belgium say from london from swabian. the 9000000 students have taken part in the rest of us program since it began in 1987. people to be all europeans are different but they're also connected and that's really beautiful to speak up it should i think it's really important to meet people from different cultures because it's a broad it's your perspective we go by this over time we've become more european the german i've seen that here and it surprised me when you have the. us most often leads of the old can i say sion has changed the way that young people look to europe for the better. and restless is the most successful program of the you are that you can spout from statistics and the magic from everything and it really works it has creating ass and so belonging to you and that then off. you do

your responsibility towards the u.s. citizens lasting friendships and about a quarter of the arrests most students meet their long term partner on the exchange it's been said that there are $1000000.00 over as most babies but the program can only go so far. so. as much as we try to prepare europeans for a european future we also have to realize that the middle classes can be quite nationalistic and that's true for all countries this is. where on the road again this time we're headed for the heart of european politics brussels. this is n.p.r. t.-mo vulcan the german social democrat is just and he 31 of the youngest members of the european parliament he's trying to reach young people with his you tube channel i have to provide and welcome to another episode of wednesday myths that

recommend. what hi and welcome to sorry i'm with you why did you choose you to mention why you mention it because young people watch it for information and entertainment. there are other platforms and your habits can change but right now you tube is the place to be the place to be. and then again ladies and gentlemen welcome to our press conference the 1st question please. it's usually easier to blame we abolished roaming charges. did some european commission bureaucrat decide that cucumber should look like this. and not like this action conference i got my voting card there's the voting machine and now we're going to take a roll call vote let's do it but that's not all the m.p.'s may think this is silly . they did at the start. i did walk through the room with a video camera and record my reports. some people looked at me like i was crazy.

but these videos get results. and these days no one seems to mind. now we're headed for a session of the legal affairs committee today they're going to vote on a topic that a lot of young people are interested in the core plymouth revotes them and it's relaxed. you're in the minority. so now the legal committee is going to vote on the e.u.'s controversial internet copyright legislation social media uses a dead set against the proposal. quotes these as a bit in short this law is going to strangle the internet in a way that we couldn't have imagined in our worst nightmares in the act toyman could then try to take away the content freedom that lets me do my job. and have

our everyday lives will be totally screwed. it's a great shows. article 13 is designed to protect copyrighted material and block illegal content at least that's what the bills all thought axel voss says but opponents are concerned that some legal content could also be bad and. you dig and off you can draft regulations for this and we should. but if young europeans decide that this legislation is ruining an important part of their lives. then we're making a huge mistake and divide things in many ways it's a clash between generations vulcan provides his followers with updates via instagram. next we'll travel to greece where a lot of young people can't find jobs. the

last 10 years have been tough for grace as the country dealt with a devastating economic crisis the situation has improved a little but news on employment still stands at just under 40 percent. of the deal to get our 2 countries on the stark for the younger generation is always hit hard by such crises a lot of people who already have jobs can make it through somehow. but there just aren't any new jobs for young people who now have to work. mismanagement tax evasion corrupt elites crushing national debt and then the global financial crisis.

the e.u. provided financial rescue packages in return greece had to slash government spending but a lot of the european aid money went to the big bang. thanks many greeks lost their jobs and pensions taxes saud poverty and deprivation has become rampant here. this is the german school in athens almost all of the students are great most of them come from well to do families but they're still worried about whether they'll be able to find a job after they graduate. you know i think i've lost faith. and we have i'm afraid for the future will i be able to work here in greece i have no idea but these things are a mess increase right now maybe life is better in other countries this is.