Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – After the results of the elections to the European Union parliament were announced on the night of June 9, a common reflection in many political analyses was that the center had held. The far-right advanced but not as much as some polls had predicted. The resistance of the center is, at least numerically speaking, true. The combination of the center-left Social Democrats, the free-market Renew, and the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) will control around 57% of the seats in the parliament (the numbers could change slightly if some national delegations join or leave