he's a meritus professor of international history and former convener of european studies at london school of economics. also in london, we have donald so soon he has ameritas professor of comparative european history at queen mary university of london. and in syracuse, we cross at glen morgan. he is a professor in the political science department at maxwell school at syracuse university. alright gentlemen, crossfire, groves and effects, that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always let me go to alan 1st. in london, the sweeney and prime minister recently condemned the eas western states for imposing, quote, imaginary european values without respecting local cultures. how do you react to that? because we had a letter come out with 16 major figures representing parties all across the the block, very agitated and pushing back against what they think is brussel brussels intruding upon their local affairs. how do we act, what the us will be, the prime minister had to say? well, it doesn't cause any surprise because there's a great divide in europe in your opinion, just matters of cult