but the most significant victory of the night went to metairie salvini is far right 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 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 af

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 raja's 1st italy france england it's the sort 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 it would be no longer possible or weiss the europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. ok max let's start with you looking at that you know the populists t

european public sphere project welcome see metairie let's let's start we can tell you this this idea of a populist landscape is is it is it is it now ripe for salvini to become its figurehead it has been right for some time indeed populist phobic nationalist parties were the 1st ones to provide a structure of political political offer to people to people who were seeking answers in terms of identity crisis and cultural politics rather than economic politics so to speak. the question we have to look at as it has been in the past is whether and to what extent they will manage to form a cohesive bloc within the european parliament there's been many attempts in the past for these kind of political forces to come together and they fall apart indeed there's a contradiction in terms there they are fundamentally nationalist parties those to do struggle to come together when necessary that is the question so where does germany. a ready to be led by its early on this well mr merton who we saw in that report did attend a big rally of all of these parties in milan just about 10 days ago but the fact is that there are deep divisions between these parties and i