Tens of millions across the European Union voted Sunday in EU parliamentary elections in a massive exercise of democracy that is expected to shift the bloc to the right and redirect its future.
Commuters wait at a bus stop as an election poster depicting Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis reads “Steadily closer to Europe” in Athens, Greece, Friday, June 7, 2024. The European Election will take place on June 9.
President of Republic of Ireland Michael D Higgins casts his vote in the local and European elections at St Mary’s Hospital in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, Friday June 7, 2024. FILE – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, speaks with Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, on March 21, 2024.
EU lawmakers have a say in issues from financial rules to climate and agriculture policy. They approve the EU budget, which bankrolls priorities including infrastructure projects, farm subsidies andThis elections come at a testing time for voter confidence in a bloc of some 450 million people. Over the last five years, the EU has beenfueled by the biggest land conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
After the election comes a period of horse-trading, as political parties reconsider in their places in the continent-wide political alliances that run the European legislature.
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