this is a question of local governments as well and from your home this could provide risk all mine and we have achieved this good selection result because in the last few years in the last one and a half years we managed to go beyond that are traditional political and she moves and in addition of course we have a substantive record for us here at south by providing orientation mean because of fog it's not a buyer. providing speculation that would just disorientating us. following her national online. yes one can assume that well you already said that. personnel and financial challenges. could be ahead for you and you have to work hard and you also said. c.d.u.

is one of your opponents but where do you see your biggest challenges has been you also mentioned that speedy in terms of money arrival was there also dollars because well with modest i mean it's a politician runs we have 80000 members roughly and in some certain ways we've got 40 percent of the vote other parties holding that have 450000 volts not only got 15 percent of the vote but guys are democracies so god one cannot say that with a green card involved at all levels and as well so this is an explanation for why the party has become so out of healing it's also it's open it's changing when people are involved straight away you know a lot of the curriculum before it's not difficult to make your voice heard it and to god because you hate each improve yourself quickly and that i mean is that we're open to certain trends in society. new forms of communication new issues.

new focus on different issues but in the end we have to be capable of taking action politically that's the biggest challenge it's about maintaining that. it's about 30 knots giving up the key issues but also translating our support and to a form of organization actually works. and follow up question how are you responding to threats from the c.d.u. well. of. me i don't respond to threats at home. and most refugees competition for the best climate policy a social policy i welcome that competition and mr winter if he picks up on the go issues then he can perhaps be on the european level so bring it on i would say that it is. a good and what could you please introduce

yourself. from dutch and from that i want to live i'd like to talk about german policy and we had a long debate last autumn after the state elections about whether the green spot could become a national party and i want to see you on this night after they these election results and what it can't really be in your interests if c.d.u. in s.p.t. become so weak because you need majorities in future. well i'd like to repeat what mr de gaulle's said this was a european election 1st and foremost of course there are differences in the way people vote when it comes to european elections or municipal elections and their support for the european elections with support for european democracy. and if you look at the actual issues involved here then we have to most of us want to say that german policy has to do now that. clear european orientation darker it's about

strengthening the european parliament banned european democracy and of life and that's what our focus should remain on the door to get it up because this also moons. policy has to change in the news. and what's been misunderstood is that george that there is there is no conflict between german interests and european interests and for every year we spend to get one on one euro back and never spend a year but at 95 we don't want to do that but that's not the point of it all you have to open it's because i'm. just going to get what was so. in our view we should focus on strengthening the european orientation and german policy 1st of all and the last 6 months we said it so much at the moment. of time democrats you know my party democracy seems to be restructuring and taking you

for one of them is what is there and where half a mind to wait and see what happens because. we know there's been a lot of loss of trust and a free democratic order in europe to an extent that i wouldn't have thought possible. bill because so that means that it's use of appeal and power of the traditional parties is no longer have been longer are taken for granted come on and european positive actions have become much more individual so this means that the positions of the sixty's and seventy's have changed we have to work differently as well so that time national party could be good for us so that it doesn't automatically equate into a general 20 percent or something else to do that and i know that this mean oms what's important is that in our program we took the term

alliance party. with the mind storm it and we did that in order to underline the ability to take action of various political groups that want to take action usually and. we want to make sure the focus is on the issues and it's not about having some sort of vague eclectic mix of party. it's a by recognising the magnitude of the challenge is finding the political answers and to do that we have to come up with a new form of before a political capability and that is why. i'm not concentrating on whether we're going to become a national party it's about we have to think about it to a new approach to the vote and i think this is a clear mandate that we've been given. and. in i'd like to just add because you

mentioned the. actual issues and. with him do you have more in common in terms of political issues with the s.p.d. or with the city even if it's yes you would be so good well. against as it works on you when i think the whole situation is quite. certainly will. and if you've gotten the story what i mean is that in the last 4 weeks i traveled through germany and asked what the citizens were asking. and what they're asking us is completely different to what we're discussing here today what the people were asking us were not what about the chancellery shape or the coalition of the people who were saying we want to have climate protection we want to european resources to promote animal protection i'm not much agriculture and many people i'm clot. robert how that said. a constructive approach is needed and brussel instead of

political stalemate whenever money is at issue in the grand coalition new there is fear or concerns are by dividing saltire t. in europe and that's that's not what people are concerned with the. population bomb in germany to be constructive within europe wants germany to be courageous within your own that's got they voted for him and the citizens want interest in all these other issues i didn't see any signs. among the protests of school pupils that the green party should not become a national party that's not what they were demonstrating for they want climate protection us to be realized and this is a demand. that is not just something for the greens to fulfill it's for the grand coalition the grand coalition after to deliver on climate protections on environmental protection and everything else seems slightly surreal to me. and

we've also had the question of with. well of course. we've often worked together with the social democratic most party we've had more in common with the c.d.u. c.s.u. . of course we have much more common ground. there but. there's only one pure pro european majority does not eat crow european left of senator i'm pro european right of center so this means that the task for us the green party is to talk to each other are. in a sensible way instead of talking about who's going to be the boss and that's why we're going to talk about the issues at hand 1st and then we'll talk about it with that person now on the minutes that will represent those who voted for ours in the best way and. the lead to come to the principle of the european

parliament we don't want to become year in parliament by arguing about this that's something i cannot accept. in fact i have another 10 people who want to ask questions so next time please. do not i'm hammad in going to study in 1900 days and in war there's an election in brandenburg and in the sack from the 27th of october in return and these are strongholds of the right wing radicals can win the greens change the situation and conquer the strongholds in the next 90 days are you addressing that is will you be able to achieve or are these federal states lost. it's well you're question doing well the greens manage to change things in east germany this is what i try to. abstract way i think this is basically the task that we've been assigned. to actually you're looking for as we have is through

2 digit when most would say that 2 digit figures and these 2 states brandenburg s.x.s. course that's a warning to us but. whether we can actually change the mood and change the direction is because that's quite a tall order. and i meet them and their structure of these of course we have a lot of a momentum at the moment so we will attract this time in the future it doesn't mean that structures after that we're going to assume will become the 2nd biggest party or something that cannot be our goal our goal has to be to have debate the. bigger illusion that the british and the only difference after he gives room to the civic liberal center again with them you're going to get of course the other parties have to have their say but we need to have american schools of real change and release stages and got legs on the border also call

a new strong line and this is not traditional green territory for us but francisco part. of the woods and got 28 percent and a girl let's go i am she wasn't quite enough to win but this is just what i was a turnout election event of francisca sure but i thought it was as if the whole most of the new talent was there and you don't have to apologize for going to a grain of antennae more of the inside of a game isn't sure and so the greens have to set themselves the task in band of brothers and saxony of making a contribution. ok that was robert there speaking live at the leader of the greens at the green special press conference they're holding right now after their downing success doubling their vote in the european elections this is the live coverage ongoing coverage of the d.

european elections let's go straight to our correspondent actually on a conference standing by at that press conference for us we heard another top greenspun gold saying that everything except delivering on climate change is real to him what do the greens concretely want to do right now after their election success the 2nd largest party now from germany in the european parliament. what do they want to do concretely to rollback climate change. well the greens have been already on the national level here in germany been very vocal of like how germany needs to prove improve its climate change policies and needs to improve its ira environmentalists policies they've been asking for a an exit off the coal industry east germany has long said that it wanted to it's change or exit its nuclear energy strategy a while ago that was partly under the current. government the grand coalition but

the greens have asked for more they've asked for also exit of the coal industries and their false for also a more ambitious goals on the paris climate agreements that were. taken on the global level a couple years ago. oh ok so they have some real concrete goals and there they plan on moving forward those will hear about that i'm sure in the future for now much money are costing thanks so much for that this is our special coverage of the e.u. parliamentary elections i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us.