to to make great breakthroughs i mean it's interesting because of course the national rally of marion le pen is sort of born from the front desk and i love her father john marie le pen it was around for decades that she could potentially be one of the key figures to lead a far right alliance obviously we're still waiting for italy's vote so we can't really discuss in any detail until then about how likely do you think a far right alliance would be for example marine le pen who is quite secular with some of the other far right parties who are almost aggressively christian if you will yes it's likely that we will have a big group built their own to salvini here in the european parliament no. they are internally still quite divided mainly on the economics in mainly on the question of the eurozone were indeed the more northern members or not happy to support transfer say were us some of the like salvini has for example been praising the president of the european central bank and what are drug says so there's internal a difference. is the record important and secondly a majority a solid majority

we were all asking ahead of this vote how well are they going to do and we don't see in france marion le pen perform well my test of union italy and they said they want to form a big powerful populist group in the european parliament will we see that actually turned out. well the voting total if you look at the vote total for the right wing populist it's about there where many expected it to be maybe a little lower so you can't say it's a victory all across the board they're probably not going to be able to fathom the necessary groups from the different countries to have the strongest group in the european parliament nevertheless you know they're clearly one of the winners of the evening with 2 real highlight wins for them and you mention them in france for example but in the pens. managed to beat out in monterrey mark hall's liberal party and in italy. they got a party.

in the country salvation is welcomed what he called a new european renascence while in france marion le pen won her symbolic jewel the president emanuel macro. and in the u.k. neither for our. party is in the leaders voters expressed their frustration over the deadlock on how to leave the european union for raj says his party success is a massive message for the conservative and labor parties that have long dominated british politics intelligence i guess is the direction of the engine for the lib dems may be on the inside and doing reasonably well but it looks like it looks like this will be a big win for the rest of the hour. which obviously. and greece is heading for snap elections after the ruling party suffered major losses in the european parliament vote prime minister alexis tsipras is sid it's a party lost out to the conservative new democracy party he's asked voters for a new mandate to lead. and iraq has spoken out against how the u.s. is treated its neighbor iran in their escalating crisis but the iraqi foreign minister mohammed al hakim told his iranian counterpart iraq is willin

would say a sanction towards the domestic side but also about his europe and agenda focusing on marion le pen is she as perhaps a softer appeal than her father did. pain in the front desk and also correct me if i'm wrong but i think the only woman to head up a populist right wing party certainly in europe is georgia maloney as well but one of the most visible do you think she really wants to become the face. your head or one of the main leaders of europe wide far right alliance well if she wanted i don't think she cooed because off early to russia which for some other i would say far right or more populist right wing parties like in poland is a total red light but more importantly i don't think this is a victory i think it's more cause defeat because you came so gone but look at him actually do don't do better and actually did worse than the past election in 2014 so i don't think it's a vote in favor of lupin but it's more of a vote actually against mark or and what she represents ok well we'll have to see how mccrone i guess survives who deals with it in days to come for the moment for greec

these running neck and neck with the anti—eu national rally, a rebrand of marion le pen's national frontm across europe. but the anti—eu forces have always struggled to unite. in hungary, viktor orban, the prime minister, and in poland, the ruling law and justice party, both hardline on migration and refugees, might not wa nt to migration and refugees, might not want tojoin migration and refugees, might not want to join salvini's new gang. and these eurosceptics might have a third of seats in parliament but might still be split and weakened. the big old pro eu centre parties are shrinking. angela merkel‘s conservatives and their centre—right allies across europe. keep the ce ntre—left allies across europe. keep the centre—left socialists real pressure in france. but together they might still dominate, though it's likely to be the other parties in the middle, macron, the liberals, the greens could be the kingmakers stopping the balance in europe is shifting, fragmenting. it's a struggle for europe's hearts and votes. they've become an ever more common sight in cities across the globe. the

national purposes that's all the action right in your has been doing that started from faraj in marion le pen and now it's trash talking about. expenses there all your letters of no receipts no bills nothing no accountability 40000000 euros worth of european taxpayers more well i have been voting for making this more transparent and all this office money so i have no problem with that making in the in the next month they didn't like my party will do it and next month it but the reason why does has been done is because the people of europe want less bureaucracy if you give every floor honesty send that's not about honesty because we are following the rules and there was i what they are as long as you don't change the rules you're not is all about the 9000000000 that we lost in 2000 i actually wrote it as a servant to get like a not like the rules but as long as politicians follow the rules you cannot accuse them for that then you can change the rules or not like them and i have i'm in favor of changing the roads the court awarded as accused of losing between about 9000000000 euros between 2000

biggest election surprises in france when the most well known faces of the anti immigration current marion le pen came out and. just ahead of president a man in my course party represented the pro e.u. center in the lection in greece prime minister alexis tsipras has been forced to call for snap elections after his left wing syriza party lost to the conservative new democrats will have more on that in athens in just a moment and its deputy prime minister material salvini secured the largest win for the far right his lead party became the biggest in the country and rome is where we begin our coverage of some of been job it is there for is so the far right did better than expected in italy osama what is behind it. well we've seen that they've gained about 33 percent of the vote which is up quite to quite significantly from the 6 percent that they got in 24 years they have been riding on this wave of an anti immigrant sentiment with a declining economy and people being fed up with the traditional faces that they've been seen in politics here in italy we've also seen that in a year his coalition part

from marion le pen. from nigel farage will 2 of the future also new one.be able to put together a group with 102150 parliamentarians. correspondent thomas sparrow joins us now from milan thomas we've just heard the party's leader speak in there so has. only provided the springboard to building that pen nationalist front. well he certainly believes that is the case and that's something that he repeated today he also mentioned that earlier this morning at 1 o'clock in the morning when he stormed into this room here to talk to the journalists about what he obviously described as a very big victory for his party and his goal is indeed as we just heard in the sound bite to try and form an alliance with other like minded groups in europe and has already stressed that he will obviously focus on migration which has been his key topic in the last few months but he also spoke right here about fiscal issues about defending the workers in italy reducing unemployment there was even talk of maybe reopening fiscal talks with the european union those are issues that sardi