The winners of #EP2019 are the far-right/populists, the Greens and the liberals. The losers are the mainstream parties who no longer have a grand coalition and will need to cozy up to the Greens/liberals to keep Salvini/Le Pen etc from power news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
“It is going to be a fragmented European parliament and one that will find more difficult to come out with a clear political direction" — @QuentinPeel from @ChathamHouse on the future of the EU news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
"The common thread is that people voted for change, that is why they opted for liberal and green parties, often instead of the mainstream parties,” @PawelZerka from @ecfr on the move away from the centre news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Even with 23% of the seats in the EP, populists/nationalists "will find it quite difficult to put together a coherent position precisely because of what they are — each one of those parties is driven primarily by the national interest," @QuentinPeel says news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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