European Parliament elections - Page 2

New Brexit Party MEP Annunziata Rees-Mogg has claimed that she was “thrown out” of the European Parliament for carrying a camera.

Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has won a vote on his leadership after offering his resignation following a disastrous election result in the European Parliament elections last weekend.

Analysis by the Peston show has assessed that the new Brexit Party would wipe out the establishment parties if its European Parliament election victory were translated into General Election constituency seats.

Roadblocks in delivering Brexit have acted as a “vaccine” against Euroscepticism in the European Parliament elections, Donald Tusk has said.

Former Austrian vice-chancellor and populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache has managed, through preferential voting, to secure the right to sit for his party in the European Parliament.

Anti-mass migration interior minister Matteo Salvini and his League party won the most votes in the southern Italian commune of Riace, despite it being known for its pro-migrant local politicians and policies.

The majority (53 per cent) of those who voted for the Conservative Party in the 2017 General Election voted for the Brexit Party in Thursday’s EU election, a poll has revealed.

Luxembourg archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich praised the successes of green parties in Sunday’s EU elections while lamenting the rise of populist-nationalist groups.

Budapest has vowed to ‘keep Hungary Hungarian’ after the country’s governing Fidesz party won a massive victory in European Parliament elections on Sunday on a platform of countering mass immigration.

The left-wing Swedish Social Democrats continue their downward trend and although they won the overall European Parliament vote, they saw their worst performance in the party’s history.

Voters are choosing the populist, nationalist right in part due to their anger at the left and center-right’s undisguised contempt for them.

The stunning victory of the Brexit Party in Britain’s elections for the European Parliament are also a massive win for President Donald Trump — and a warning to the American political establishment about the potential political cost of undermining the agenda on which Trump was elected.

Anti-Brexit politicians and commentators and politicians have begun interpreting the EU election results in creative ways in order to claim success.

Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini and his Lega dominated the European Parliament elections beating expectations with 34.27 per cent of the vote while the Five Star Movement has slumped into third place.

Nigel Farage has led the Brexit Party to victory while the establishment parties are left assessing the damage after their historic losses, with the Brexiteer declaring: “This is just the beginning.”

Results for the EU Parliament elections are beginning to roll in, with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in first place in Britain, Marine Le Pen appearing to defeat Emmanuel Macron in France, and important wins for national populists in bulwarks Poland and Hungary.

Populist leader Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) have triumphed over sitting French president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament elections, according to exit polls.

Populist Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson was targetted by an attack earlier this week when an unknown individual shot fireworks at his car following a European Parliament election campaign meeting.

Sky News political anchor Adam Boulton has accused the Brexit Party’s ambition to be included in negotiations with the European Union as being “close to authoritarian fascism”.

Strict broadcasting rules governing election day reporting are being strung out in some cases for four days while people across Europe vote in EU elections, leaving journalists in a difficult situation over reporting the slow-motion collapse of the British government happening at the same time.

Pictures and video circulating on social media appear to show an elderly gentleman wearing a Brexit Party rosette who has been “milkshaked” outside a polling station in England.

The German ‘satire’ party Die Partei (The Party) has released a European Parliament candidate list featuring the surnames of former Nazi leaders, claiming they hope that populist supporters will vote for them to take votes from the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

A leading bank has predicted that there is a 25 per cent chance of the UK leaving the EU with ‘no deal’ at the end of the year with Boris Johnson taking over as prime minister.

4-in-5 of the largest parties will be nationalist-populist eurosceptics with the Brexit Party in first place continent-wide, polling suggests.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has dramatically increased its lead in the polls with one day left before the European elections, a survey shows.

Hungarian conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called on voters to send a “strong message” of change to Brussels during the European Parliament elections, highlighting the importance of strong borders.

Leader of the left-progressive group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has said that in order to compete with the rest of the world, the European Union must become an “empire.”

A woman who worked as the head of policy at the charity Happy City called for an acid attack on Nigel Farage after the Brexit Party leader had had a milkshake thrown at him.

In the latest example of threatening political behaviour sweeping Europe, a youth branch of the left-wing German SPD (Social Democrat Party) has posted a picture of a member wearing a hoody with the European Union flag on while holding a baseball bat with a caption threatening nationalists.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is set to launch an attack on the “populist right” and reject that the UK could ever leave the EU in a clean break.

Populists are the “enemy” of Europe and seek to destroy the continent’s globalist “values”, Angela Merkel has warned ahead of European Parliament elections this week.

Tory grandee and ardent anti-Brexit peer Lord Heseltine has had the party whip suspended for saying he would vote for the Liberal Democrats.

The Brexit Party has taken a massive 17-point lead over the pro-Remain Welsh nationalist party in Wales in a poll ahead of Thursday’s European Parliament elections.

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) – Two Maltese soldiers have pleaded not guilty to charges they participated in a racially-motivated, fatal drive-by shooting of a migrant from Ivory Coast.

Nigel Farage is considered the best party leader to negotiate a Brexit deal and to lead the United Kingdom out of the current deadlock, according to a poll.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has reiterated his desire to shift the European Union’s centre of gravity towards a pro-borders stance after an expected national populist surge in the upcoming EU Parliament elections.