consenting to the kind of gradual loss of sovereignty of their elected governments to the e.u. speaking about this this is a democratic deficit that we hear a lot about in the e.u. i want to put in i were brussels correspondent this georg it's good to see you you cover the european union on a daily basis what i mean what do you say about this that that truong and trump's allegiance to this or famously of the nation state that that is something that the european union could you know take a lesson from. i think we should start this conversation here with a very common misunderstanding and that is the picture that european affairs are run by brussels by a euro crack ticket leap that like its supra national state is running affairs and it can be self-critical here maybe part of the reason that that impression is come across is that we as correspondents as well sometimes refer to russell's and