so they have the obligation to do this they have they have the opportunity to do so the the nationalist vote is strong but it is not so strong that it can block the work of the european parliament ok we have our correspondent our brussels bureau chief max holzman who has also been following this vote very closely for us and he joins us from there max what is your take on this how big of a shakeup has this actually been for the european union. well it's nothing that wasn't anticipated before what we have and that is really the crucial difference for the 1st time and we've seen that in other countries we have a situation where the 2 centrist parties so the biggest groups here the social democrats and the conservative party aren't able to form a majority so they will need another group coming in to form a majority in the european parliament that's something you see in many different countries so it's not necessarily per se a problem but it shows you a trend even of right now the right wing populists as they are called or the