decline of the big parties does account for a lot of the losses that the conservatives and the social democratic parties in europe sustained on sunday night i would say probably one of the biggest chunks also the conservatives in the u.k. the tory party there were some countries were a social democrats and conservatives were successful just for example social democrats in spain or in malta yes it's true of course overall both parties both factions lost a significant amount of seats in the european parliament that's why the whole process now to find for example a majority for the new you commission president will be more complicated and that's why here in brussels where i am those different political groups and the leaders of those groups are gearing up to try to find some kind of consensus against the and european parties we're probably going to have a 1st meeting of those political leaders tonight but at the very latest tomorrow morning before the informal you summit that's taking place here in brussels where the leaders the heads of state and government will try to hash things out on their side and no

this is the headquarters of the social democrat party in alexandria where doc and i used to have an office. this party member admitted she was given a job at the youth welfare office and earned a salary but never did any work there. you were told i'm not going to talk about or his trial. but if you make mistakes you have to pay for them harriet that. jetta would agree with that but right now she's trying to find out where her mother is living. she turns to the youth welfare office for help even though the office did little to improve her life at the orphanage. if the truth got more murky from the you're an adult down so we're no longer responsible for you read it and we have no idea whether your mother is still alive and yet i can't help hear about. jet or fears that she may never find her family also so but i'm angry nobody cares about us especially the politicians also. while he was in parliament that night had pushed for legislation that would weaken anti corruption laws critics said he was likely trying to protect himself and his colleagues against possible criminal charges but voters

and on the other hand, the social democratic party in germany has a problem that many social democraticw it is difficult to gain back trust that we are actually going to invest in structures on the community level, and that we want to support workers and not businesses. but we are really trying hard to do convince people and to change our agenda. social democratic parties across europe say they are very for workers' rights and supporting people, however, their lives are going. but a lot of young germans are saying a lot of the welfare in this country helps older people and does not help younger people. do you think that is fair? i think actually it is not so much a question about young and old, it is about rich and poor. actually in germany, we do have a problem with distributing wealth. we have many people who are really rich, and having big businesses making a lot of money here, but the younger people, especially the poor people are not getting much of that. our social welfare system, for example, needs to be reformed, pensions too. so we have a lot to do there. and we are struggling

all of that he made a social democrat party in alexandria where doc and i used to have an office. this party member admitted she was given a job at the youth welfare office she's trying to find out where her mother is living. she turns to the youth welfare office for help even though the office did little to improve her life at the orphanage. if the group wants more if you're an adult down so we're no longer response of parliament dogma had pushed for legislation that would weaken anticorruption laws critics said he was likely trying to protect himself and his colleagues against possible criminal charges but voters in romania this month approved a non-binding referendum that said the laws should stay just as they are. now each year some $10000000.00 tonnes of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans and the people of norway are among those who are increasingly concerned about the impact that it's having on the thousands of kilometers of coastal waters for instance those around the city of bear and our report begins with one month to the open sea failed the whale was weekend emac

the past also in germany for miles on the european level that if you had the 2 biggest parties the social democrats and the conservatives in this case the european people's party is that you would have a majority that is no longer the case meaning it will take $3.00 to $4.00 different factions in the european parliament to have a majority and that will change the way policy will be made that will change. the emphasis what they are talking about which kind of policy is important we talk to a lot of people tonight. here it seems that climate change fighting climate change will be on the front burner now something that was on the back burner in the past because you have the greens in the picture you can really talk about a green wave throughout europe now because not only in germany the greens have had good results but also in france with about 13 percent that has been that's pretty new no one seen before itself this will make things more complicated but for now it seems like those parties the greens the liberals the conservatives and also the social democrats will be able to keep the right wing popul

parties the c.d.u. and the social democrats the s.p.d. saying clearly climate is right on the top of the list of voters' concerns and what they didn't say but what is implicit is that many voters don't ascribe to these 2 parties competence on climate but are looking to the greens which of course are a party that's all about climate it was environmental issues. that led to the greens being formed in 1983 if you remember it was the disaster at fukushima that led the greens to become the majority party in one of the southern german states so again and again we have seen the greens rise on the back of concern about climate and environment and that's what we're seeing again and the greens very much the party of the young so one thing to take away from these numbers that we're seeing is that many young voters and they don't always vote in european union elections but more have this time apparently than often have in the past that many young voters are saying climate is their issue we are worried about climate as you know going to turn back the s

you've been talking about it all along the east of the social democrats in germany have lost many many votes and of course you have members of that party here as well in fact the group leader of the european social democrats is a german from the s.p.d. and we caught up with them our reporter katherine martin swan it's a reaction to that and here's the interview. ok. we have recent numbers right now in germany there is that why do week resides on the social democrats that's of course from the german a spade a this is a big disappointment tonight. when we analyze the new will see that climate change was obviously the dominant issue in the eye of the electorate we cannot blame a will voters for that because this is an issue of utmost importance and automatically obviously did turn to the progressive camp to turn to the greens might conclude relations to a crean call aches what is the lack of your agenda and this pain well i cannot see it if i judge it from the european parliament's point because we started it produces in this initial this and democrats one year ago where we say equality and say stay inability belong together and we have t

with some critics in his own party well going as far as to question his mental state or it's a nonsense what was you smoking whatever it was it can to be legal the social democrats that kevin represents is traditionally the party of the working class but they have had a horrid time of late and are currently polling third nationally behind the chancellor's union bloc and the greens germany of course has plenty of history when it comes to the left of the political spectrum but ideas of a return to east germany or the g.d.r. certainly got between its critics fired up thirty years after the fall of the berlin wall the left wants to return to democratic socialism the airspeed leadership must clearly distance itself from such fantasies as you may well imagine people on social media of had plenty to say about mystic units ideas or collectivism. b.m.w. is a great company now despite the liberal market economy but because of that the dreams of the socialists on the working theory who wants to own property only by force and repression unit is a living example of someone who has never worked in his life and lives outside reality it's hard to believe taxpayers are funding s

leader of the country of cause and in italy there's a kind of shift from the the the the social democratic party is quite well no better than expected 7 is number one but not more than 40 percent it's 30 percent so it's something up it's ok so you're saying the gains by the far right have been held within a certain margins that the mainstream parties in alliance with the liberals and the greens can work with exactly so we have a situation that the they the feel of them the date these parties leads to a model of his pro european wave and the turnout of the componentry didn't discuss about that the turnout was very very high so the alleged victims have been to see of the european parliament is much better ahead of the european council of the states of government and heads of states of government so that it's very clear that the parliamentarism is working of cause we have problems with visibility but this is much better than ever before ok so a boost. legitimacy like to look at the greens and there are success and not only here in germany a number of other countries as well does this mean we're goi

say we are a liberal the question is of what to do well as they lead to candidate of the social democratic party it's absolutely obvious why she stressed on the on these values rather than on the conservative values are if you would rather look a diverse area and maybe even the right wing values if you could call them as such so it's funny it's not surprising that she she talked about these values because what we've seen in the past is that people who would consider themselves liberal and who would consider themselves being part of in or been movement they were too quiet in the past they have voices and also they have votes where not enough in order to hold back at this right wing movement so we need these people now to see dede that important they have in order to sustain. the europe as we have it run on your model yeah i was nodding about about this just makes me think of the situation in france where we have to divest movements which was quite representative of people having a feeling they were and heritage and that is a major impediment for india coming elections for emanuel because he's the

sunday's key takeaways voters punish traditional centrist parties including germany's governing coalition of conservatives and social democrats but the greens made big advances to become the country's number 2 party and france's number 3 in the european parliament right wing populists also had a good night winning votes in france the u.k. italy and poland the leader of germany's conservatives the c.d.u. of knowledge of her party had failed to reach many voters. as the results came in at c.d.u. headquarters the scale of the night's losses became clear. a blow for the chancellor but not a reason to step down. or merkel is our elected chancellor we have to think things through we have no plans for a change in leadership because that's not decided by one party alone and chided that's at least i know. it was obvious things weren't going to see the use way even before polls closed once the votes were counted it was up to the party's leader to admit its shortcomings that's a keep this is the seems to me this is the worst result for the c.d.u. in its entire history either at the european or the federal level. and i want to make it co

i think that this will be very difficult, the head of the social democratic party, who has already offered her, or symbolically has offered her sacrificial head, she has offered her resignation as the party leader of the social democratic party, because the situation is so volatile -- and because the situation is so volatile, we had elections for local offices in the east and also in the federal state of --, and because there were some political flips there the germans are still cautious, or too cautious, i do not think there will be a vote of no-confidence at the heart of the german buddhist dog that would german -- trigger a new election, because now they see there is volatility at the center. but i think this will forecast what happens in some of the federal elections as we move into the fall. so very clearly, angela merkel's coalition government is weakening, they do not have enough moral fiber to make a lot of political arguments they need to be making as they enter the second half of her final reign. and you have the greens, who are the second starkest force in the country, in this c

built was who should be the social democratic party but it was the coalition. of popular times liquids that wouldn't have been. if they wouldn't have something non-confidence vote their social mental coffeepot equipment have explained. space criticised times like goods. for the. holder of previous period but now they could not vote for him and when you look at the freedom of course there's a little bit of eventually because. you are trying to cook for one to do business. here. he did not accept civil. could such as this didn't. release more government so huge change the ministers of the freedom about the reese friendly would have been a friend to the experience and. so it would be social democratic but we have. no we don't accept this one yet it's essential as you're seeing technocrats being put into the opposition is this the end old sebastian encouraged when it comes to the chancellor ship because he's europe's youngest leader he had the bucking of the austrian public we just saw today in the european elections his people's party strong showing there. by the

well i think the question is is this string of the green party or is that the week this particular of the social democrats who suffered yet another crushing defeat here and the other so-called big tent parties. of course first and foremost i'm going to michael see do you party and the figures that we saw of that is that they basically lost the use so the no longer big tent the young moving elsewhere and clearly that's something the greens are gaining from but also campaigned on a huge issue of climate change you have the whole fight its future movement i've just come from the headquarters of the conservative c.d.u. and when you talk to people there off camera they will admit yes this is an issue that they completely failed to really put to the forefront when really it was on but you can young people's mind here minds here in germany not to mention or not to . in that youtube video that came out last week where a you tube basically called on young people not to vote for the established parties first but for the c.d.u. but then also for the social democrats and other established parties and of course the fa

the dutch social democratic party is the big winner of the european elections in the netherlands. according to exit polls europeans are very seen over the next 3 days to elect 751 e.u. parliamentarian's the outcome in the netherlands will reassure established parties fearing a surge among the far right labor easily beat an upstart populist group and prime minister mark who says party came in 2nd. in the polls have closed in the u.k. for the european parliament elections a campaign group says hundreds of e.u. citizens trying to vote were turned away because of administrative mistakes britain had been due to leave the e.u. by the end of march but parliament was unable to agree on a withdrawal bill and french far rights leader marine le pen has been ordered to repay the european parliament more than $330000.00 and misused funds after her appeal to the court was rejected the former m.e.p. will now have to pay back the money she claimed for a parliamentary assistant who is based in paris the pen has vowed to take the case to the european court of human rights and french president emman

party lost about 40 any p.e.'s in the european parliament as did the social democrats another 40 the bulk of these were well not won by the the far right party is a steve bell and would have wanted but won by the liberals and the greens on the left wing autonomy across europe they want to 70 seats between them and that left only very poor pickings for the european right too had been expected to make rapid gains in some countries like italy then rather well but in most countries they did very badly. very good analysis there and you know taking a look closer on a country by country level you know we see in germany for example or the alternative for germany notably saw their vote total fall from 13 percent last time around to 11 percent on the other hand in it only mr silva needs lead party doubled their vote from the last cycle to 34 percent what do you think accounts for that. virgin prospects of those 2 apparently similar far right parties. where the success of the greens and germany was the big story of the night in europe's most powerful country and the success of senior salvini successful for his leader party is

well as i said the lead candidate of the social democratic party it's absolutel. obvious why she stressed on these -- out on these values rather than on the conservative values all if you would rather look at the rule area and and and maybe even the right wing values if you could call them as such. am so it it's for me it's not surprising that she she m. f. talked about these values because what we seen in the past is that. people who would consider themselves liberal and who would consider themselves being part often or been movement the word to quiet in the past their voices -- and also they have the votes were not enough in order to and hold back at these right wing movement so we need these people now to see. and the the importance they half in order to sustain the europe us we have it. on your noting. yeah i was nodding about -- about -- did did this just makes me think of the situation in france where we have to get a vest movements which was quite representative of people. having a feeling they weren't hurt and that is a major impediment for india upcoming

names often it's early and a spin doctor in australia tells you that stein who works for the social democratic . party in australia came up because he has been on in the. months before ok thank you for your time this hour peter shilton professor of international ations at the university of gottingen get ok we are back cross talking in a moment peter and guests are standing by to join me in 30 though for all the latest global news updates on their visit. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered peter lavelle manufacturing narratives what really happened in syria what is really happening in iran also is the u.k. becoming ungovernable.