Four of the five largest parties in this week’s European Parliament elections will be nationalist-populist eurosceptics according to the website EuropeElects. The data collected by the website, show the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage is likely to cause a huge upset and take the most seats of any single party on the continent with 28 elected MEPs. The Brexit Party’s staggering lead over the second... 

European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker lashed out at “stupid nationalists” on the eve of European elections in which eurosceptic politicians are expected to make gains in the European Parliament. In an interview with CNN, the outgoing president said he was only too aware of the threat that nationalist politicians pose to European solidarity, which Juncker called the “main objective... 

The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night’s municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of... 

So far as I can tell from England, the American media gives little real coverage to events in the United Kingdom. Either events are not covered at all, or they are covered without enough context to give them meaning. I think this has been the case with the results of the European elections and the House of Commons expenses scandal that is said to have led to these election results. The European Elections Let... 

The BBC is lamenting the demise of a left-wing majority in the EU. After the 2004 EU Elections parties ranging from right of center to far-right accounted for 49.5%. Right now it looks like parties ranging from right of center to far right will account for 54.5%. This is a ten point shift. From 1 point below the left, to 9 points ahead of the left. About 10% of the EU could now be considered right-wing...