European elections were supposed to be the far right’s day. But the center held.
The results for European Parliament elections are mostly in, and the projected hard-right surge turned out to be more of an inching.
Centrist parties will continue to hold a vast majority of the 720 seats in Parliament – at least 400, or 450 including Green parties. And the far right will take barely more than a dozen new seats, says Jacob Kirkegaard, political economist and senior
