EU-Elections: Britain goes European

The current British government crisis offers new opportunities for parties like the Greens. They might have won up to 5 European seats in yesterday’s election according to recent polls, three up from now. Particularly successful is Jean Lambert, candidate in London, who opted for an un-English international campaign, touring the city in an old double-decker bus fuelled by recycled vegetable oil with a team of campaigners from several EU member states and even Canada, and addressing Polish and other migrants in their own languages. If the most positive polls prove right, even German born Ute Michel, a Lewisham councillor, could get elected to the European Parliament. Remco van der Stoep reports.