and in germany, we are joined by luisa neubauer. she is a 23-year-old member of the german green party. she brought the climate protests to germany, which greta thunberg had initiated in sweden. protesting outside the swedish parliament. we welcome you all to democracy now! we will begin right now by talking to david adler. in athens, greece. talk about the significance of the european parliament, especially i think for the u.s. audience, there isn't an understatanding of a transnatiol governing body, what the european parliament means, and then what the surge of the green party means, and also the surge of nationalist parties as well, though they did nonot do as well as people feared. >> sure. i think it is crucial to put these european parliament elections and context. this is the world's second-largest exercise of democracy after india's 400 million voters acrcross 28 untries cocompeting for this eupepean parliament where there m.v.p.'s in total. the stakes of this are who can spspeak for europe. who has a platform to speak on be