turned out. well the voting total if you look at the vote total for the right wing populists it's about there where many expected it to be maybe a little lower so you can say it's victory all across the board they're probably not going to be able to fathom the necessary groups from the different countries to have the strongest group in the european parliament nevertheless you know they're clearly one of the winners of the evening with 2 real highlight wins for them and you mention them in france for example by the in the pens. managed to beat out in monterrey mark hall's liberal party and in italy. party made significant gains that were around 30 percent i believe that the last european elections they had around 6 to 7 percent so that is a significant gain if you ask me. for the last most are happy as i said before that the total seems containable there is

a clear majority an overwhelming majority for pro european parties in the european parliament even of it's got more complicated to to sort of manufacture a majority are in our brussels bureau chief max has been reporting for us thank you so much max. but here in germany it was not a very good night for the parties that make up the government conservatives and her coalition partners the social democrats together they lost almost 20 percent of their votes the biggest gainers where the german greens who doubled their showing a result that propels them into 2nd place the far right a.f.d. party also gained ground but lost support in comparison to the last national election. i sometimes reaction speak louder than words the german greens ecstatic as they watch their vote sarge this triumph belt off the back of young voters and the climate and marriage and say

i warning shots of the country's government was the signal is the signal today is that the german government has been voted down as a result of its hesitation on climate protection and its failure to unify europe. up giving it 4 years we are fighting for european solidarity and strong climate protection emotional. at the c.d.u. party the watch dawn in dread not exactly drowning their sorrows but these results down 7 percent make for sobering reading as the party grapples with the country's shifting demographics. so i retired server there's certainly we have not been dynamic a nothing government and we fail to give convincing on says the voters across germany have expected of us in total and. across town not their government coalition partners e.s.p. d.

it was a picture of full frontal despair. they saw almost half their vote disappear 27 percent to 15 the party's leadership pleaded for members not to lose the faith. on. its mercer island as it is i would like to ask all our s.p.d. members and supporters to take hot and to look confidently to the future even if today's results are painful they show us that we have a lot to do better than it is for the far right if t. it was more a night of shodan freude than success. the biggest cheer for the s.p.d. and c.d.u. losses they had threatened an insurgency but in the end 10 percent the disappointment hard to hide. the

again not going to brussels to repair the e.u. to reduce the e.u. to it's called work that is why we have been elected and that is what we are going to do in brussels. these may have been european elections but the results may well she caught domestic politics to. talk about the results here in germany with our chief political editor who is with us thank you mr so we saw the centrist party again losing support here in germany why is that. they're asking themselves out this evening actually i mean clearly ever since this past general elections and gotten 2017 the far right if he cocked it came on as a new kid on the block here really changing the political spectrum would be fragmenting the parliament and we seen this as a trend all across europe but then when you look more closely the conservative c.d.u. and the social democrats they failed to reach those young voters we already heard

that the environment was a key issue here that's why the greens went so far ahead the big question is are the green so strong or were the social democrats so weak because they bled voters did also to the green party and the social democrats received yet another dressing down at the ballot box here in germany we're talking about the parties that make up the current coalition government and if they could listen support can they continue to run a government together often now they say yes i was that the c.d.u. had coarseness a party where there was a clear message that they want to continue this coalition but we'll have to wait and see of the next couple of days whether the social democrats will once again get into that downward. spiral of political nervous breakdown that we've seen so many times before and that usually ends in them changing their leadership but they really are running out of potential stuff at the top very fast you mentioned the greens coming in as the 2nd biggest party here in this european elections over for germany what has been the secret to their success well 1st of all i mean the

environment was a big issue particular climate change issue that was completely missed by the other major parties. at large at the same time they are also the thing proves that to beat right wing populist parties like the f.t. you can also be successful by portraying a positive kind of yes we can choose towards the future and that particular also resonates once again with younger voters let's talk about the right wing populist they came in at a little above 10 percent now at the last several elections here in germany they were close to around 13 percent and we saw them polling even above that for the past year or 2 so is this really the result that they wanted or have they really peaked. while that is it more complicated picture because we. are garland the party leader today say that they really felt that they'd been punished

more than the austrian f.p. for that tape scandal that we saw with the vice chancellor from their own right wing populist party in austria being caught on tape basically offering governmental services for cash the far right if he still wants to continue working with the f.b.i. so. there was a feeling that they've been penalized for this but it also raises the question if they potentially have maxed out we saw them actually pick up supporting comparison to the last european elections but it's you know significantly less than in the last general elections but when you look at eastern states that we had can you know elections here but also those european election results. and places like tooling in those places that are going to regional polls and new autum the f.t. managed to become the strongest force in 2 of those states so we'll be talking about the f.t. in a very different context and and and there will be a very different political picture coming from those particular strongholds of the

if the in a couple of months time most likely and that once again raises the question having maxed out if you look at the whole of the old building from certain areas so i think that's still an open question but for now they stayed below expectations both for amongst their own supporters but also their political opponents right our chief political editor me. thank you so much for your analysis. and it's a similar picture in britain where nigel for rogers brags that party is on course to become the biggest party with about a 3rd of the vote it's been taking votes from the governing conservatives and center left labor but the results show the pro e.u. also show liberal democrats surging into 2nd place they've also taken votes from both of the large parties the greens and other pro e.u. parties had called on voters to support them after prime minister theresa may fail to get her briggs a deal approved and the u.k.

had to take part in the european elections. very well let's take a look at what this popular search means for the european union we have with us now from london our correspondent there barbara standing by for us and with us here in our studios a political analyst or less than good good to have you both with us barbara let's start with you there in london now this entire election has been overshadowed by prime minister teresa mayes failure to get braids it through parliament so what does the result of this vote mean for that process. it means that the country is still deeply and totally polarized over breck's it and it also shows that what you needed in this european election was an unambiguous message so the 2 parties and the 2 sides that really came out was that the brics a party where the whole program is in the name we want breakfast we want it now did really really well and we have to remember being this party was founded just

a couple of weeks ago by nigel fries and he could just sort of siphon off all the bricks and cheers from the conservatives particularly and some from the labor party which got punished for doing the opposite sitting on the fence and looking both ways looking to the remainders the pro europeans and looking to the. voters and trying to satisfy them both and that of course doesn't work so we see that what works well is that you have to have one message and you have to sell it clearly which is what the liberal democrats did their slogan was indeed bollocks to bricks it and so that was really rewarded by voters would truly flock to the lib dems which had been half dead before they started again and this european election so that is the main message and it shows that the country is divided more lows through the middle you can't really make out where

a majority lies it is just like 5057 how all of what do you make of that what we just heard from barbara and she's saying that the sense of the country is divided 5050 are we seeing a real significant shift in the way that british politics has operated as we don't know unfortunately i think it's just the culture year of the show we are observing for 2 years now and it's frustrating on the one hand because you see this big victory of the party and you have former interview with a representative of the bricks of party so who have to explain why he is now a member. of the european parliament it's an irony of history if you say so the entire situation is you have a country going for you dictions with the rest of europe while at the same time everyone expects the country to be out of the e.u. so but how do you explain the brakes of party doing so well the conservative party taking such a hit because it's a question of credibility of course so the tories left a lost all the credibility is in the was as labor did that that's the thing you can

see it's not just not just the reason may in a government have been blame but also all jeremy corbyn or a couple of months ago was predicted as maybe the new head of government but then he fed into the same trap he did not where you take position and as you can see across europe all those party who did not take a clear position have not a clear voice out they are being bashed by voters and those no matter if they're right or left or green or whatever who had a clear message for the people actually have been rewarded as we just learned from the from the real rection all of the of the lib dems in the u.k. nobody bet a penny on them but they had a clear message and people rewarded them for the proper i want to ask you about what olaf has just said you know jeremy corbyn has been anything but clear about the labor party stance on bragg's that labor has done also particularly poorly here will this put more pressure on jeremy corbyn to back another referendum.

yes because we have just heard to tom watson 101 of the vice leaders of the labor party really call for didn't say now we finally have to learn the lesson he all the time said we have to be clear we have to just say to people what we stand for and carbon couldn't decide and he sort of turned this way and that way and was completely ambiguous throughout and now the calls are getting louder of course bot. the point is that political so much capital has been squandered how can they make good on that it is hardly conceivable how can they now all of a sudden change check again and tell people ok now we've made up our minds after the european election so badly and now we tell you we're going to promise you a 2nd referendum who's going to believe them it is more or less ridiculous so they have really sort of wasted their relatively strong position after the last national

elections and you can't really see them recover from that very quickly all right one question to going to put to both of you starting with you barbara just quickly more chaos in london what is this going to mean for europe. it for your it was going to mean that the brakes of party was not your for are just going to go back to brussels trail infinitely bought on the other hand nobody knows for how long 3 months 6 months 9 months it is completely open but awarded means for the new prime minister who is supposed to take office like image and lie that he has really nowhere to turn if he drags the country out with the hard bricks to drill or to very quickly to satisfy the bricks of cheers he's not going to have a majority in parliament if he doesn't do it he's going to frustrate his voters even more so what to do he is sort of stuck in the middle it's an impossible task alas your take on that quickly. brooks is kind of

a virus you could say so it brought down an entire country and we all watched it with pain and now of course the question is will it affect the rest of the continent because the deadlines have been pushed far away due to the demands of the reason may and the question is ok how long will the e.u. invest its credibility as a partner of the u.k. to play that game or maybe will they face the unfortunate will really say ok we have a no deal scenario and we take it now because we conned foresee what the consequences will be if we just go on right once again more questions than answers in this process on a phone call with us here in a studio and bob available for us in london thank you both very much. well that was the day as ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at w news or at some ugly ass and don't forget to use our hash tag the day.