 Head of European Court of Justice Tydionia Heghe, you're very very welcome. Thank you, it's a delight to be及. Well, naturally in Ireland we're very concerned about Brexit, but in the European Union as a whole, but what do you think the impact of Brexit will be for the common law system for the European Court of Justice? Well, I think it will certainly have an effect in as much as the weight that EU law is put together is a mixture of the legal traditions from the different member states, and if you like the common law strand within that mixture is going to be lessened by the UK leaving, and that's an obvious empirical fact. Having said that, there are some important contributions that the common law has already made, for example making the hearing in a much more interactive and much more useful, valuating part of the procedure, and things like that are going to stay, and there's no reason why that should change, and of course we have still, mercifully in Ireland, and to some extent perhaps in England, we have a continuation of the common law tradition and the contribution common law can make, even as when if the UK departs. Okay, and you recently, in an opinion on the 3rd of rest of October, you identified three important strands in EU legal order, the rule of law, the principle of solidarity, and the duty of sincere cooperation. So why is solidarity important in terms of reporting, of projecting to refugees, to asylum seekers, and does the principle of solidarity imply burden sharing? Well the short answer is yes and yes, but I think you might perhaps want to say something longer than that. In saying something longer, I would not limit the importance of solidarity to the area of refugees. The whole European project is built on the idea that Europe as a continent made a terrible mess of things over a century with three major wars. At the beginning of the story, when the EECs come into being, before that, when the common steel treaty comes into being, the stress is in putting Europe together in such a way that conflict of the very real and very bloody sort that's been seen over previous centuries is simply inconceivable. Now from there obviously we've moved on to much more complicated ideas, economic integration, a lot of other levels of integration, but the basic concept that behind this project that is solidarity to me seems to be vitally important and when you say solidarity inevitably you are talking about a way of looking at life which is not a matter of taking the treaty and clicking through and saying okay but can I do it. Yes there are rights, absolutely there are rights, there are also duties, there is also a sense of obligation and with the duties and the obligations yes comes solidarity and applying burden sharing that is part of the deal. Absolutely and so do you think the rule of law is really under threat in Europe at the moment or can it be remedied at all? Well that I wouldn't really agree with the I say almost the note of encyclophanic I in the question. The rule of law is one of the essential elements of the construct that is the European Union. Again against the background of having seen circumstances in which the rule of law broke down and seen the consequences of that and so that the European Union is founded on the rule of law it is the intended one by excellence and that is again it's the core element. Yes in difficult times there will always be moments when the rule of law is under threat because to take the obvious example populism plays to certain undercounts which do not coexist very happily with the rule of law. I have every confidence that the rule of law is there to stay and is going to be defended and I would point out that the courts in which I have the honour to serve has in a recent series of judgments involving Poland been exceptionally clear about the importance of the rule of law and about the need to give him. Thank you. Well Eleanor Sharpton, QC, I think the general of the European Court of Justice, thank you for talking to us with the IIA. You're very welcome. Thank you.