Sunday’s voting marathon winds up a four-day election cycle that began in the Netherlands on Thursday.
The first major exit polls coming out of the European Union parliamentary elections suggest that the hard right will rise in the legislature despite a series of scandals in Germany, the bloc’s biggest nation.
Even though polling will continue in Italy until late in the evening and many of the 27 member states have not yet released any projections, the indications confirmed what earlier surveys and analysis had predicted: the EU’s massive exercise in democracy is expected to shift the bloc to the right and redirect its future.
That would make it harder for Europe to pass legislation and could at times paralyse decision-making in the world’s biggest trading bloc. Over the last five years, the EU has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic, an economic slump and an energy crisis fuelled by the biggest land conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
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