Surging pro-EU parties are often natural allies of the Green parties that also gained seats across Europe
that populist parties would sweep last week’s European Parliament elections. But voters delivered a murky verdict. Eurosceptics did make progress: parties in the top 15% of hostility towards the, as measured by a survey of political scientists run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gained 30 seats.
European Parliament elections are sometimes dismissed as a mere opinion poll, since the body has much less power than domestic legislatures do. In terms of votes cast, pro- and anti-’s budget and laws. By this measure, liberals may have won the upper hand.Graphic detailprint-edition icon
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