parliament has been debating latin america's worsening covered situations and i've talked to mikhail garner who's foreign affairs coordinator for the parliaments and largest grouping the center right european peoples party welcome to d.w. once a parliament has debated the situation in latin america what can you actually do about it well we have stated that both europe and latin america are 2 of the most distracted regions in the world with regard to this pandemic and we have. according or survive to just reportage clearly said that we regret this pandemic has been heavily politicized including such negation it negates in this rhetoric don't play off the severity of the situation by heads of state and government i mean realit not named anybody directly grants everybody knows who is. who is to be named and shamed but what can we actually do we have. work on the commission to activate oath of the civil protection mechanism and other solidarity funding for a latin america we have contribution to it financially to the kodak solution to the commission has from the budget added 500000000 which is