i see both sholpes and i went to paris to meet with french president emmanuel macklin just a couple of weeks ago or rick, how important is that particular relationship to the german electorate, or do they not really care? well, it is really a pity that we didn't discuss european affairs nor transatlantic relations, the future of european defense. in the end, in the last weeks, it was all about domestic questions of social issues, pension taxation, but not taxation and the sense of what's the future of fiscal union. none of the topics that mark hall was bringing up even before the previous collections to try to find support from germany. and i was predicting that we will get soon a strong signal from berlin to support mccall, who was such a relief that he won the elections against money le pen 4 years ago. and now the situation is still kind of similar that germany's and some sort of a weight and c position. and that will really make a difference who is in the, in what form of coalition in germany in the future. because we saw charlotte sort of flirting with the idea of strengthening th