a civil servant brought. or spend 6 percent of its budget on personnel germany's local council spent 25 percent. or. so in terms of actual figures it's not really that bureaucratic d.m.f. it's often made out to be. is the preconception more about feelings processes or even just a communication problem. i met the european parliament to meet danny and there's a lack of the party vote founded 3 years ago in response to the rising tide of populism and protests the party is now hoping to enter the european parliament as the 1st pan-european party. was our eyes on our travels across europe we've heard lots of people say that the e.u. works well as an economic union but that it's politically disastrous do you agree. it was one of the moment i would say that at the moment it's hard to understand what exactly is happening politically on a european level. you get the feeling that heads of government meet up and make