of the european council on foreign relations with us to talk more about these elections joseph thank you for joining us we heard that quote from the spokesperson there saying those who want to work in and for europe won this vote is that true well they still command more than 2 thirds of the seats in the european parliament so they have the obligation to do this they have they have the opportunity to do so 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 health money 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 gr
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 win