May 28, 2019

Brussels, Belgium - It had been portrayed as a day of reckoning between pro-European and anti-European forces - between those who want greater integration, and those who want to retreat into their nation states.

The European Parliament election results, however, tell the story of a much more fragmented European Union, where mainstream parties on both the left and the right are losing voters' confidence - a trend that reflects European national politics in the past few years.

Nationalist parties took home impressive results in countries such as Italy, France, Belgium, Hungaryand Poland.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/elections-leave-europe-nationalists-190527164901364.html