Europeans have woken up to a new political reality after European Parliament elections ended the domination of the E.U.'s main center-right and center-left parties.
Riding what they called Europe's"green wave" backed by Europe-wide rallies urging climate action, environmentalist parties made strong gains, notably in Germany, one of the continent's main forces for E.U. integration.
"We are facing a shrinking center of the European Union parliament," a subdued EPP lead candidate Manfred Weber said, after just over 50 percent of the E.U.'s more than 400 million voters had turned out over four days in the world's biggest transnational elections."From now on, those who want to have a strong European Union have to join forces."
"If you lose an election, if you lose seats, you have to be modest," the former Dutch foreign minister said."We have lost seats and this means that we have to be humble." Although still trickling in, results show that the EPP is set to secure 179 seats, down from 217 five years ago. The Socialists are slated to win 150, down from 187.
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