This is John Bachelor, speaking with my good colleague Joseph Sternberg.

He's in London for the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

He writes Political Economics, writing a column about the pending European Union parliamentary elections scheduled for early June 6 to 9.

The issues of the themes.

And I asked Joe after we discussed the net zero ambitions, the green tech ambitions, the immigration

quandary, I told that I do not see much about the Ukraine war in the remarks prior to the vote 6 to 9 June.

And Joe mentions very carefully that it's being avoided.

Here's this explanation for what we know so far

about why the most important issue reining in Europe right now,

far more than immigration, far more than Green Tech, is the threat of a

wider war in Ukraine.

And yet Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street General, writing about the EU

parliamentary election pending and the silence of Ukraine.

Near silence.

More later. You aren't hearing a huge amount about it, and I think it's because on issues like this, the EU does

need to operate by consensus. So if you have a couple of national leaders like Victor Orban and Hungary or a couple others who

are dragging their heels, it's going to be very difficult for the EU to reach a conclusion.

It's also because a lot of the military aid is flowing either through

individual member governments like France or Germany or is going to end up

flowing through NATO which exists independent of the European Union.

So it can be difficult to understand it that sometimes what the EU's institutional responsibility is.

And that also is a difficult situation if you're having an election because voters don't know whom they should be holding responsible for what.

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