regions who are particularly affected then also react accordingly to regional and local level thomas ferro in berlin our political correspondent thank you so much. well as germany and other countries around europe begin to relax their lockdowns some are looking to a country that actually bucked the trend from the very beginning we're going to head to sweden now because in sweden they introduced only the looseness of restrictions there authorities kept cafes bars restaurants and businesses open along with rules for children under the age of 16 while urging people to respect social distancing guidelines a code related deaths there are also higher than in sweden scandinavian neighbors. about this approach we're joined now by journalist christiane stickler who is joining us from stockholm welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us i mean we know that sweden has essentially appealed to citizens sense of responsibility the lockdown measures are based on recommendations how has that been working i think that works quite well because they believe or they trust in the swedish gover