he says the massive gains for the far—right in france aren't as cut and dried as marine le pen might f france for the last two years, these are usually punishments for these are usually punishments for the party in power. the most striking aspect of tonight's road in france is it confirms the analysis that the traditional right left divide has been replaced by division, shaped by european issues between far right national front and the liberal en marche. the two parties that have governed france for the better part of the last half—century, the socialists and republicans, struggled to get 15% expect 15% combined. there is a colla pse expect 15% combined. there is a collapse of traditional parties in france, confirmed with the very poor showing of the republicans, the centre—right party who were pulling around 13%. i take your point that this could have been worse for the president, and being close to marine le pen is not a disaster but if you are proposing a european renaissance, you need a bit more than that? i'm not crying seeing evidence of that. this is going to be an uphill chall

in france, marine le pen's far—right national rally finished ahead of president macron's en marche partyrliament and call new elections, a proposal that was immediately rejected by the government. translation: i see in the sea victory of the people who have taken power back tonight with fierceness and dignity. —— i see in this. the national rally‘s name has never been more fitting. whether you voted with your heart or your reason, be assured that a vote for the national rally is over france and the vote of the people. let's go to greece. we said at the beginning of the programme that these elections would have a profound effect, notjust on the eu, but on the political landscape of all 28 countries voting. and in greece, the governing party is projected to have done so badly that the prime minister has called early elections. here he is speaking. translation: right after the second round of local government elections on the second ofjune, i will immediately ask the president to declare national elections. in the end, the greek people will be the only ones to make the final decision. now t

on the move party and marine le pen national rally. ne le pen has been at the heart of the campaign from the beginning. the french president is beefing up his role as well, appearing now on campaign posters. alone on campaign posters, one could think president macron is running for the european election. the french president isn't hoping for a seat in brussels. he wants seats for his party. as many as possible. >> you know the president has been involved in european issues for a long time. it's only natural for him to take part in this european campaign as presisident. months, president macron has published an op-ed in newspapers across europe. he's pushed for a stronger, more integrated europe. mean theased role may lady opposing him has done a poor job -- what matters are the figures. macron's party, republic on the move, is stagnating. for the first time, they are 's far righte le pen party. >> i will use all my energy to stop the national rally from winning. >> days away from the vote, macron is trying to reboot his campaign, hoping

from the president's party what about the other side of this coin the national rally this is a marine le pen's far right party that came out on top at appears from these results that we're seeing but still not as well as marine le pen's previous party is one of the all performed in the last european parliament elections you know so leading up to this what we heard that this is really a battle between the pro european anti european forces what do you make of the marine le pen's results here. well the national rallies will be saying this huge victory for us there is the will probably will be less than 5 years ago when these exit polls if these exit polls are confirmed they are saying that the government needs to draw the conclusions from this and actually at least this all of the national parliament that's here at the end of an assault that election party they'll see people saying that they conquer this that this was a european election and national action and if you look at it it's kind of in a way somehow a defeat for the far right national ready even if they came 1st because they were hoping

in it not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france in the u.k. in order for august 1st so it's 3 france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing green parties in several countries celebrated their best e.u. election results highlighting concern among some voters in the climate change after ending people all across europe want to form a peaceful europe together we haven't just got a great result in germany but as it stands in ireland and the netherlands in austria all across europe the greens are strong. the election results reflect a growing political trend in the east 28 member states people are increasingly rejecting establishment traditional mainstream parties and supporting alternatives and floating for courses the center right european peoples party remains the largest bloc in the e.u. parliament but with no majority it'll be forced to seek support to form a pro e.u. coalition there is no ability there recent no stable maturity without the e.p. and that's why the e.p.a. is ready for compromise ready for talks to each other but

marine le pen has the first party in france. nigel farage is the first party in britain.n of a europe that is changing, a europe tired of the powers of the elites, finance, multinationals, and from tomorrow we will have to redouble our efforts. we canjoin we can join nuala we canjoin nuala in rome, she's been monitoring this. for mr salvini, a very good result domesticly, let's start from that perspective. definitely. when it comes to these european parliament elections that you've been covering over the past day, what we're really seeing is when they have votes in parliament, it's really a reflection of national issues, nowhere more than italy and matteo salvini of la lega, or the league, he is in current issue with the five star movement, luigi di maio, the coalition there. it is uneasy, though, to be honest. he was looking for domesticly domesticly is to have a win that could potentially allow him to that alliance and to go it alone as la lega become the governing party. he had a press conference not long after the exit polls came out. elections didn't finish until 11p

really has turned into a referendum flood line between the progressive macron and the far right marine le penthis is such. a collection of national pause and it is in a sense, a combination of issues throughout europe and immigration, but also the economy is being rather little discussed, all these great plans about a refer to the microform and then basically, either you do something very big or almost nothing, so it is quite surprising. my back thank you for keeping me company, thanks to the both of you from italy, to france, the restrictions mean that while the restrictions mean that while the restrictions are going on, we cannot talk to you about them, but we will be in brussels on sunday night and on monday to bring you the results andi on monday to bring you the results and i will see you then. goodbye. hello there. it is still quite warm this week especially in the sunshine but next week it will be turning cooler and probably a bit more u nsettled cooler and probably a bit more unsettled as well. not a great deal of rain really, we got this claudia coming in from the atlantic, very slow

this was billed by marine le pen and emmanuel macron as a political duel between the two of them and france and for europe. it was tight. marine le pen's national rally won 22 seats. president macron‘s en marche got 21. note how well the greens did. note also that the republicans and socialist are used to dominate, dominate no more. here's what marine le pen said after the results came in. emanuel emmanuel macron should dissolve the assembly and make it a more accurate reflection of the country. no word from emmanuel macron just yet. but this is the french prime minister. translation: i welcome these results with humility but also with determination to get the forces of progress in our country, determination to prepare for the future of our country. i will be working to continue the project of the president and the majority. emmanuel macron didn't win. but he still has plenty of influence over what happens here in brussels. first — as french president he's one of the most influential voices within the european council which represents the leaders of the eu's member states. second, his

let's talk a little about marine le pen. called the national front. she didn't manage to get all the way to the presidency. do you think we can now consider her a genuine presidential contender when that comes around in a few yea rs ? when that comes around in a few years? well, we have got to stop talking about her and her party as some sort of lions who deserve to be cut out of the debate and ignored. —— fly ins. she has an awful lot going against, one is that she has hardly any member is a parliament, and this situation in which the populist block has such a huge percentage of the vote in these elections and it has such a tiny representation in parliament is causing huge strain and i don't think it is sustainable. she was a contender two years ago, she got through to the last two. she will get through, as things stand, next time around. i'm not sure that the politics will have changed that much though next time round, which is why macron is still quite content with this result. if it was a rerun between him and her at a p

parties the marine le pen and salvini have been perhaps a little bit more comfortable at.encouraging voters from the extremes of their country's politics and farage is very careful not to do that so he can now portray his party as a potential replacement for the conservatives not saying that will happen but he's definitely trying to give that impression so he he takes great care to stay inside the political mainstream most of the time obviously immigration is a key issue a force of pain a most of the far right party and even far as yourself though has often used it for political purposes perhaps less since the referendum and the whole mess in the u.k. of not being able to leave but he did also use that tactic didn't he he did and famously in front of a post that was used very heavily during by his campaign during the breaks it campaign back in 2016 but it's worth remembering that in the u.k. immigration as in this year has fallen away since the referendum it was a bigot's you in the referendum that triggered the difficulties the u.k. political system is now having but actu

marine le pen speaking to the media she says that the fact that her party national rally upset to be the biggest winners in france means that the money will knock on the french president should dissolve parliament hold elections for that but she's also said that the good showing by her party shows that she said to mount a big challenge for the french presidency in 2022. more certainly the president has no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and allow for a more democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national rally party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life. well in austria it's been well a rough 2 weeks for the scandal ridden government there are this corruption scandal has cost cost them a vice chancellor and all of the junior coalition partners in the cabinet quit as well however the chancellor has been reviewed well in these ele

she too wants to see a european revolution an awakening of the people marine le pen. france's right wing figure head. we don't want this european union anymore that has brought the bill winds of globalization upon europe. they want to form a european alliance of people and nations ideally with poland hungary and the u. k.. but within the european parliament the nationalist leaders are anything but unified how strong is europe's right wing. tiny which is making the case against the far right's my tests notice of some vt would make it. to a bottle of he has he sees it between the elites the european brussels elites on the one hand. and the ordinary working people of europe on the other and he would say that many of those ordinary working people. are being left behind at the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer do you have any sympathy for that case because that's where a lot of their i guess the fear of the aggression the heat is coming from. absolutely -- as a social democrat absolutely -- can can relate to the essence off the poor are getting poorer and

in france marine le pen's party out stages president while the far right the leader leads initially. nigel farage is bret's it party ahead in the u.k. the ruling conservatives routed after failing to. take britain out of the european union. and in other news iraq signal support for iran in its standoff with the us and they get in office to play mediator. and the cash shortage that's threatening un peacekeeping missions will look at who's not paying their share. of the proof europe centuries have long dominated the european parliament has suffered significant losses in this one of the most contentious elections in the history is not just the euro skeptics far right to gain at the expense in a vote that seen the biggest turnout across europe in 2 decades now the center right european peoples party and the socialists and democrats together they've got the most seats but they've not got enough for a majority even combined but they have 2 potential allies who have made gains of their own in the liberals they've been their numbers and so has the greens their become the 2nd largest force in

his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she led him to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs and hard blood but now she's gone her own way. the french fry be rough for a touch on the elites the e.u. and immigration in the past she called for france to leave the union but has since returned seeking instead the stripped back to be used power that's not good so you no longer want this european union that is spreading unbridled globalization on europe globalization without regulation means having slaves manufacture to sell to the unemployed so. helping to banish the shackles of brussels is your. of the alternative for germany leading up to born in the chaos of the financial crisis but who found success talking about migration equal marriage and islamic extremism unlike the others they have threatened a day get a german exit from the e.u. if the block fails to change it. and we want to avoid damage we'll need to change out the rection otherwise brags it won't be the

they could ask for the government to step down because of this so maybe not a huge victory for marine le pen but is this a big blow for the president tomorrow in my car and his movement. well of course they would have liked to come first but people here have been telling me that they're actually quite happy about the results they will have about twenty two percent probably called into the estimates and they're saying you know this is our first european election so that's actually not a bad result of tool and also it's the first midterm so to say and when you look back in history the socialists the last government there actually had a lot worse results in a midterm really elections there were about fifteen percent so. parties now saying this is quite a good result for us also they're saying people have turned out you know this has been a high voter turnout at about fish. one percent so this is a yes to europe and europe is always a part of the d.n.a. as they say off their potty now the ellie's it today has been saying this is a confirmation of the robustness of our government and we will cont

yeah i think if you want to put some perspective on this it was indeed a victory for marine le pen's a far right party but a very small one and it was a defeat for the party of the french president tomorrow my car but a very small one it was that was only there was less than a percentage point in it now for marine le pen she ended up with a result which was very similar to the result the party had in the last election in 2014 and i think what that really shows is that even though the far right in france has a very core a supporter base and they are able to widen their appeal and many people expected marine le pen to capitalize on the fact that the french presence amount or mark or has had such a challenging few months but in fact her party failed to do so now for him and all my cars i said he has had the yellow vest crisis over social inequality his popularity his promises over the past few months because many people say that he is a favoring the rich over the poor yet even with all of that speed high and him his party still managed to do very well a small faction a small percentage

macron begins his dual with marine le pen. s marine le pen who just pipped emmanuel macron's party in terms of most votes in these elections. you have another take on the story?” don't know when this photo was taken but it was after the result. look at it. it says the storm. —— scorn. he onlyjust he only just lived he onlyjust lived in but it's a massive loss. i almost don't believe it. and it is a real challenge now for him, isn't it? absolutely. they didn't exist as a party five years ago, they have 20 seats now in the european parliament, that sounds pretty good. but for the president, a relatively new president to be picked by the person he beat in the residence or election, that is hard to take. she didn't do it by much but it is enough. especially as he came out of the starting gate as a political figure from nowhere, came out of the starting gate as a politicalfigure from nowhere, doing so well. and this mould newspaper —— smile, pointing out as a man

only used to lead the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k. nodule for august 1st so easily france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing. but despite his success it's unlikely that salvini will be able to fulfill his dream of working with other nationalists to turn the e.u. on its head from within the populace in other countries did not do as well meaning the far right will still be in a minority in the european parliament. and they're also divided among themselves hungary is anti immigrant leader viktor netted more than 50 percent of the vote but disagrees with other populists on a range of issues even so analysts say would be no longer possible. for europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. while the mainstream center parties have suffered big losses in europe selections among them germany's ruling coalition of conservatives and social democrats speaking about the results the conservative leader acknowledged that her party a failed to address the worries of younger voters especially over climat

remain an important partner despite the revolution he joined other speakers including france's marine le pen and the netherlands heard hilda sin predicting historic results for nationalist parties in next week's european parliament elections. our correspondent rebecca rivers is covering that event for us and joins us now from milan rebecca the event has just started i understand what's happened so far. actually michael it now is actually coming to an end behind me here you can probably him a terror cell be there heads be could be the person who organized this event and indeed launched the alliance of the parties who have been speaking here today we've heard from representatives from all the 12 parties they highlighted they are focusing on their their similarities rather than a differences they all are calling for more importance to be placed on national governments they want to bring power back to the national governments they say that brussels has had too much power they are also calling for changes to immigration on these topics and they are united in some of the biggest cheers were for fr

. >> not onlnly the first party in italy, but marine le pen is the first t party in france. thehe u.k., nigel farage is first. italy, france, england, it is a sign of a europe that is changing. amy: we will go to greece, britain, and germany for response. then we look at the student debt crisisis in the united states where the average student debt is now $32,000. earlier this month, the billionaire investor robert smith stunned many when he offered to pay off the student loans of the graduation class at morehoususe college. >> o of the eieight generaratiof my famamily who have b been in s country, w we're going to puputa .ittle fuel l in your bus i have the amni over tre. this ia challenge to you, alumni. this is my class, 2019. and myamily is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. amy: we will speak to one of the morehouse graduates, de'jaun correia, as well as ben jealous, the former head of the naacp. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in missouri, republican governor mike parson

we heard in the clip of marine le pen there saying that the e.u.as kind of the root of all evil and that it needed to be basically destroyed from within instead of being so explicit about it now they're saying that they want to reform the e.u. but they leave open what that exactly means on the other hand i'd be careful to assume that these parties are going to be able to coordinate with one another very closely because they are quite different in nature they're also very unstable as we've seen with the austrian example they're very volatile because of the internal dynamics in the parties and on a lot of key issues they do not agree with one another for example marine le pen and salvini are very sort of fond of russia and vladimir putin and have really tried to curry favor with him over the years whereas in a country like poland they're very anti russia pull it also has a few. right government in place and poland for example is also very pro e.u. people don't want to leave the european union and i think that's also true in some of these other countr

european elections he also praised the far right leader marine le pen's campaign. despite her publicly distancing herself from him. and french doctors have begun taking a quadriplegic mon off life support after his ordeal ignited a right to die debate. in france forty two year old vasilinda has spent the last eleven years in a vegetative state. after two thousand eight motorcycle accidents. thanks for watching france twenty four now first came in influence peddling scandal that soul austria's vice chancellor resign and that political crisis has now. leled to alll m ministers fromme far rigight freedom party steppg down from austria's coalitionon governments must seem corny as all the latest. the fallout from the stalker scandal continues on monday afternoon austria's chancellor sebastian courts told reporters in vienna he had decided to fire the country's far right interior minister herbert cackle. i have decided in consultation with the federal presidents to propose the interior ministers firing to the president. herbert kinkel a member of the fbo or freedom party

marine le pen turned up, representing her party in france.e netherlands was also there, they are willing to work as well. there were two very conspicuous absentees, looked at all but was not there. the law and justice party, the people in charge in poland, though there are nationalist sentiments they may share with other people, they say that they are not going to work with marine le pen. while it is easy to see these far right parties initially parties in one coherent block, mr salvini would like to see that, we know what they oppose, they oppose brussels in its current form. that does not necessarily mean they we re that does not necessarily mean they were gone. remember, there will be full coverage of the results on a sunday on our special programme on the bbc from inside the european parliament in brussels. that is the results, from 8pm gmt on bbc world news. going to be fascinating. commonalities between some of these parties but also all their own distinct local issues as well which is perhaps why they cannot come together so easily to

not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k. nodule for august 1st so italy france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing. but despite his success it's unlikely that salvini will be able to fulfill his dream of working with other nationalists to turn the e.u. on its head from within the populace in other countries did not do as well meaning the far right will still be in a minority in the european parliament. and they're also divided among themselves hungary's anti immigrant leader viktor orban netted more than 50 percent of the vote but disagrees with other populists on a range of issues even so analysts say would be no longer possible or why the europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. austrian chancellor sebastian courts and his government have been ousted after opposition parties joined forces in a vote of no confidence the motion was backed by lawmakers from the far right freedom party in coalition with courts until last week it was a spectacular reverse for a leader who only

remain an important partner despite the revelations he joined other speakers including france's marine le pen and the netherlands have to fill gaps in predicting historic results for nationalist parties in next week's european parliament elections. our correspondent rebecca ritter's attended the gathering in milan earlier i asked her what message the leaders had for the crowd at the rally all are calling for more importance to be placed on national governments they want to bring power back to the national governments they say that brussels has had too much power they are also calling for changes to immigration on these topics and they are you know i said some of the biggest cheers were for francis marine le pen she spoke of. she blamed europe for globalization which he said is led to inequality in europe but really the biggest cheers were reserved from a tired selvi that he came to the stage play with of to it to you know pavarotti is nessun dorma and sort of adding fuel to the argument that somebody is really using a lot of this pan-european policy idea to use to rally for domestic politics.

france's marine le pen was one of the far right leaders celebrating last night victory over the party president emmanuel mccall was razor thin but hugely symbolic she say's it means things will have to change in france in future. she was a soft children as she has been working on believes he can get out of the situation where she finds himself tonight the failure to defeat that is experienced in the region and which he will play recklessly with the same name it will not work if that is not what the french people expect. in britain and to european leader nigel farrar she also said the success of his party showed not just that britons want to leave the e.u. but that they also want politics to change fundamentally. but the most significant victory of the night went to metairie salvini is far right to lead party in italy. there when went beyond all expectations salvini said this was a sign that europe was about to undergo a transformation. not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france in the u.k. nodule for august 1st so italy france england it

a marine le pen is a serious force but let's look at the other parties who are constructive people the same voters mainstream voters just shifted their allegiances from the large parties to the small parties but they stayed within the mainstream and i think that's the message from these european elections ok just one more word on the other big issue that we have already talked now climate change on the show why now why is it suddenly the issue why are people gathering around and looking as though they are willing to make sacrifices and see so strongly with the change i think well the is being. made of glass or maybe there could have been quite a few reports that alarming news reports. report that i have that that have been in the media in the past months the rate of extinctions in their customs plastic pollution and of course the climate change in general. and in the past few months we've had this this empress have mobility mobilization of teenagers high school kids around turnberry from sweden so this has caught the public's eyes and all those teenagers have parents who are voters so

parliament across the continent against a populist far right parties including a narrow victory for marine le pen over president mccraw in france in germany meanwhile historic setbacks for chance in america conservatives on the social democrats a major surge and support though for the greens good news for europe an unexpectedly high turnout question here on quadriga today is votes in europe votes wake up call for brussels to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by derek scally who writes for the irish times and derek says pro e.u. forces have dodged a populist bullet with one last chance to deliver on the issues too big for individual member states above all he says climate change and also with us the show me show to deal a freelance journalist who reports in french german and english and he cautions to not overstate the significance of the far right retreat in france interesting stuff and a very warm welcome to say the political activist current taylor who argues that even if there has been no major shift to the right changer. there is no guarantee that we are not heading towards

france's marine le pen was one of the far right leaders celebrating last night have victory over the party president emmanuel mccall was razor thin but hugely symbolic she say's it means things will have to change in france in future. she quotes a soft children as she believes he can get out of the situation where she finds himself tonight the failure to defeat that is experienced within reach and which he will play recklessly with the same will not work if that is not what the french people expect. in britain and to european leader nigel farrar she also said the success of his bags party showed not just that britons want to leave the e.u. but that they also want politics to change fundamentally. but the most significant victory of the night went to metairie salvini is far right to lead party in italy. there when went beyond all expectations salvini said this was a sign that europe was about to undergo a transformation. not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k. nodule for august 1st so italy france england it's the sort of

a march party tonight in paris following this vote for us hi lisa good to see you so we heard marine le pen speaking to her supporters a little bit earlier is this really such a big victory for her and her party. but she obviously came 1st and as we just heard she's calling this an immense victory and has even called for the government to solve the national assembly in reaction however it's quite clear that the national rally a would have hoped for a better result they were hoping to soak up a share of undecided voters the way that it is and they just up until a few days ago who had made up their mind just yet and also voter turnout has gone up by about 10 percent and at the national rally must have hoped that they you know that they would get their share of it however all these people who came out today or a large share of them then turned towards the green party in support of that party and said so doesn't look like the national rarely has won that many votes especially compared to what happened 5 years ago because 5 years ago they also came 1st in the european elections and they won with

merriam the exit polls that we're getting from france do show the national rally the party of marine le pen the far right populist party in france has actually managed to pull ahead of a man with mccrone and the his and now we had been expecting this opinion polls in the past few weeks had been suggesting something similar it does seem that that has happened of course france a key country the 2nd biggest in europe when it comes to seats in the european parliament they've got $74.00 members of the european parliament germany the only country with more at 96 germany also interesting angular merkel's c.v. use the christian democrats have held and again the a if the there on the other hand the far right party in germany hasn't done as well as predicted down by 2 points neither has the far right party in austria the freedom party that won by 5 points even though they were mired in a scandal which probably had an impact on votes these votes of course not the final results but an indication i'm joined now by peter clip from the think tank open europe thanks so much for joining us again now we have

resorts -- results acceptable because it is a narrow defeat, one point behind the national rally of marine le penthis is home. le pen called at this resolution of the parliament. even if that doesn't happen, it will make it hard for macron to carry on in france. to bring up other issues, such as immigration, and take concrete steps to fight climate change. 13%, this is the other big surprise in france of these eu elections and in europe. it will make it harder for emmanuel macron to push for further eurozone integration. annmarie.'s get to brexit front and center and the brexit party literally victorious for nigel farage. when he to work out whether it's a protest vote or something more substantial. annmarie: i think that's a good point. part of it is a protest vote. look or the conservatives ended up last. 9% of the vote, one of their worst in history. a lot of that is the brexit party taking conservative vote. the two parties that did well, the nigel for rods party and -- nigel farage party and the green party. we want to stay close to the european union, maybe a second referendum. those partie

just one point difference therebetween marine le pen's party and president macron‘s party.an union elections portend what might happen in national elections in a couple of years or are they do you think more of a protest vote than a separate from what might happen domestically. those numbers will be viewed very in favour by marine le pen and her party if it came to anywhere near a presidential or parliamentary election. well, on this, i have sifted through quite a few numbers from previous european parliamentary elections and there are a few patterns we can discern. the closer these polymers relations fall within these polymers relations fall within the election cycle in the country, the election cycle in the country, the more likely it is a government will suffer. so if you have a new government in spain that has only beenin government in spain that has only been in power for government in spain that has only been in powerfora government in spain that has only been in power for a couple of months, so it according to this pattern has a better chance of performing well while

in france marine le pen's party out stages president mccrone while the far right leg leads in italy. now you for august bret's at passy ahead in the u.k. the ruling conservatives routed after failing to take britain out of the european union. and japan's charm offensive ahead of a tricky trade talks donald trump becomes the 1st foreign leader to meet the new and. pranav hito plus. i'm a blessing in penny album reporting on this country's efforts to get that precious stone artifacts taken in the colonial era. though early results show the pro europe centrists of long dominated the european parliament have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in history but it's not just the euro skeptics far right you've gained at their expense in a vote that seen the biggest turnout in 2 decades the center right european people's party and the socialists and democrats together they have the most seats but it's not enough for a majority but they do have 2 potential allies is made their own gains the liberals have based business did their numbers and so have the greens t

in france marine le pen again beat the french president's past. hungary's viktor orban spelled it out the migration issue by itself and the reaction of the people only we all reorganized the 40 specter with the traditional party families will not play the same role in the future as they have done in the recent years i also own traditional jubilant greens resurgence in germany such become a big hitter in the european parliament. and our family as. we achieved this because many many people took to the streets for climate protection because many many young people were ready to fight for climate protection in schools universities in sports halls. yellow vests protesters in brussels on sunday they say the e.u. is undemocratic everyone wants to change cheer up. the fight over which way will be played out in parliament and on the streets. for some analysis of this i'm joined by all of her political scientist and senior advisor. with the resinous and global in britain berlin an absolute shocker for sticking with us all night here thank you so much so euro

well this was neither a big victory for the far right party of marine le pen nor was it a big defeat for the pro e.u. centrist party of about all my call there was less than a percentage point in it and in fact the far right party polled pretty much what it did in 2014 during the last european union election and i think what it shows is the fact that the far right in france has this very strong core support of bates supporter base but it's often fails to widen its appeal and this in a year where emanuel mark karr has really struggled his popularity has plummeted he has been affected by the so-called yellow vest crisis over social inequality so many people going into this election thought of all right we'll be able to capitalize on that and do much better than it did i think for the french president his party would probably be quite relieved they certainly were not strongly defeated the french president now is able to send any peace to the parliament that gives him a leverage there it's the 1st time that is relatively new parties taking part of these e.u. elections and i think what th

manu over strong euro skeptic party they're taking a leave the same situation in france we have a marine le pen they're out in front what kind of pressure is there going to be there now domestically on president my craw. well you know man micro has been under pressure for quite some time now 6 months ago we had the yellow vest crisis we touched which had just started but even the way the 4 when he started his mandate he was elected by 60 percent of the french people who chose him but not tornados so i voted against the far right but let's not forget that the part that time defied toys chosen by 40 percent of the french people so the results they're having at this time around the east at 23.3 percent the national over just installs them most steady within the political landscape here in france and so we saw that vote here as more of a referendum against emanuel micros you know policies and he will have to address then he will have to address that this country discontent like quite soon if he wants to come to the right off the rise off the far right here in france. thank thanks for that and i wil

like all of them — marine le pen of france, germany's afd and more — who came to milan for a joint rallyey promised fewer migrants and mosques, more security, less interference from brussels, and the crowd...loved it. but what's far from clear is whether domestic—focused nationalists like matteo salvini, who shouts "italy first", or marine le pen, who wants france first, can really work together effectively on the european stage. later, i asked matteo salvini about the accusations that he's a fascist, a racist, a danger. "look at all the families here today," he told me. "they're not fascists. fascists are ghosts of the past. we're creating a europe of the future." but salvini and friends may well fail to get the numbers to transform the eu as they wish. europe's voters want change, but not all look to the populist right. environmental groups and the populist left also expect a boost in these european elections. # raindrops keep falling on my head...# with so many europeans determined to rain on the parade of traditional political parties, governments of the eu's big two — france and ger

only used to lead the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k.nodule for august 1st so italy france england it's a sign of a europe that is changing. but despite his success it's unlikely that salvini will be able to fulfill his dream of working with other nationalists to turn the e.u. on its head from within the populace in other countries did not do as well meaning the far right will still be in a minority in the european parliament. and they're also divided among themselves hungary's anti immigrant leader viktor orban netted more than 50 percent of the vote but disagrees with other populists on a range of issues even so analysts say would be no longer possible or why the europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. and we can talk about all of this now with yosef yarning from the european council on foreign relations here in berlin he joins us in our studio yes a thanks for being with us as we said the right wing populist they didn't see the surge that was expected by some. but they did have their strongest show