Cum nu prea citesc presă românească, aflu despre europarlamentare din New York Times. 
Europeans across 27 countries voted between Thursday and Saturday for the 736 seats in the European Parliament, an institution with growing powers but still a low profile.
With the turnout at a record low 43 percent of the 388 million eligible voters, provisional results showed governing center-right parties in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium advancing along with center-right opposition groups in Britain and Spain.
Heather Grabbe, director of the Open Society Institute in Brussels, said two striking features of the elections were the failure of the left to make a significant impact and the advances by the far-right and other fringe parties. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islam party led by Geert Wilders won about 15 percent of the vote, according to early results.
Exit polls predicted the Austrian far-right Freedom Party would double its vote from its showing in 2004, to 13 percent, while in Denmark the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party was also projected to double its 2004 tally.
“This is a wake-up call to politicians,” she added. “People no longer believe the narrative, particularly from the left, of how to organize the economy and society.”
Un articol interesant și, ca întotdeauna, bine scris.