 or we celebrated yesterday 20 years since the start of the euro what would you say about that celebration well it was completely misplaced because the euro is an awful monetary design it has been absolutely detrimental to the interest of the European Union it was a mistake it was badly but I'm not against a common currency I'm against the particular architectural fault lines built baked into this currency this currency has created the kind of never-ending crisis since 2009 2010 which is now causing the fragmentation of our European Union if we have xenophobic racist forces springing out in Austria in Italy in France everywhere it is because of the awful design of the euro now once we've created it we have to fix it not celebrate so you're here today to talk about your party and essentially launch your in a sense your campaign for the European elections how do you intend to change the current status quo well our European New Deal which is a very comprehensive policy agenda comprises primarily two components one has to do with economic and social policies that can be implemented as of tomorrow morning even within the existing treaties because the usual retort by these decisions are these are good ideas but they're not legal so we have particular ideas on how to have a very large scale green investment fund in Europe that will create a good quality jobs that are absolutely essential to start the process of mending the social fabric of Europe we have particular proposals about the banking system but they can propose about public debtor structure across Europe in a way that is firstly rationally secondly legal the second component consists of proposals regarding the democratization effectively moving towards a democratic constitution that will replace all the treaties and that will create democratic legitimacy in Brussels and in Frankfurt you said that indeed the Irish MEP said that if there had been a strong progressive alliance in the European Parliament it could have made a real difference looking at how the parliament is at the moment do you think that you can bring together the S&D group socialist Democrats the green group other people who would be favorable to your message one can only hope unfortunately the social Democrats have disgraced themselves after ten years of participating in a crime against logic with their connivance in all the fiscal compacts the bailouts of our countries Ireland Greece and so on that were all fully designed and precipitated the crisis at the moment as European spring and the M25 we're concentrating on changing the conversation in Europe because let's face it most Europeans are and political forces around Europe are treating European Parliament elections as a glorified opinion poll for national elections we take them very seriously and we have this agenda and we want to be elected on this agenda and I believe that yes there are threshold effects in history and politics if we manage to change this conversation a lot of good people who are at the moment captured by other political formations that are going nowhere will probably join us