e.u. french president emmanuel macross has outlined his grand vision of a reformed europe is open letter features a number of ambitious plans charlotta risky as more. well this letter has been out lying to citizens of europe and it's been published union this comes as many centrist politicians and fearing that they're not going to do as well in the forthcoming european elections as we see in polls suggesting that nationalist and populist parties are likely to gain seats across europe in those forthcoming elections now mark corns outlining his vision or in a source of europe as it calls it but he also outlined that there are threats to europe never since the second world war has europe been so necessary and yet never has europe been in such a danger he sees that danger is being twofold one is the euro skeptic m.p.s. euro skeptic politicians people who he's described as exploiting public anger but it's not just euro skeptic politicians these pointing the fingers that he's also pointing the fingers towards those who don't want to do anything he want the status quo to remain as it is he says in his l

for the european parliament less than two and a half months from now in fact many share macross view that the e.u. is facing its most acute crisis yet increasingly divided over policy toward migrants disillusioned by a prolonged and chaotic brick set and polarized by the rise of right wing nationalism. or the populists who can convince europe that's the title of our show today and here i guess who will answer that question it's a pleasure to welcome you whole she is german but lived for many years in belgium and in france she's a professor of political science and heads the department of european studies and democracy at the claims university in austria and she says europe can only be successful if the german and french leaders move closer together derek scally is from ireland and works as the berlin correspondent for the irish times and he thinks for years germany's vocation has been a self deception dusty cliched phrases that are twenty years old and convince no one any more and it's a pleasure to welcome milan mitch he is originally from slovakia and works as an analyst on eastern europe for t

well macross initiative for talks on reforming the bloc was welcomed by hungary's prime minister viktor orban a strong critic of the e.u. he responded by say this could mark the beginning of a serious european the base and the details of course we have differences of views but far more important than these differing opinions is that this initiative be a good start to a serious and constructive dialogue on the future of europe well let's speak to peter kleck there who is head of the brussels office at open europe an independent policy think tank sir thank you so much for joining us here on. does it surprise you that a man electrons letters that perhaps so but do you get reaction from people that you would think would be is obvious allies but then you have viktor orban in a way at least welcoming the idea of an open dialogue and clear change well it's in these phrasing and has been so positive but according to rumors he he's actually keen on a change to the peace to take powers from the european commission about migration. and also to supposedly make sure that the european union can no longer take action against some of

e.u. macross said it symbolized europe's failure to respond to the needs of its people in reply the german government said it supports engaged discussions about the direction of the e.u. . the former chairman of the sun carlos going has said he's committed to fighting what he calls an unsubstantiated accusations against him that's according to a statement released ahead of his expected release from prison on bail cohen has been in jail for some three and a half months amid allegations of breach of trust and fraud. and north korean leader kim jong un has returned home to a carefully choreographed welcome in pyongyang despite the failure of last week's summit with u.s. president don trump kim's four thousand kilometer journey by over a train from vietnam took sixty hours to meeting with trump ended abruptly without a deal to denuclearize the korean peninsula. now france's president emanuel mccraw has sent an open letter to europe citizens telling them it's time to stand firm proud and loose it against the nationalists and the digital giants and get on the same page about refugees and asylum