The far right didn’t sweep the EU elections. Europe’s centre is holding | Natalie Nougayrède

The real story was a Green and liberal surge in Germany, France and beyond, reflecting a new pluralism in EU politics

It turns out that the widespread predictions of a far-right takeover of the European parliament were, as Mark Twain famously said about reports of his death, “greatly exaggerated”. Citizens across Europe flocked to the ballot box in numbers unseen since the 1990s. The young in particular turned out. And they did not deliver a rightwing populist surge.

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