EU Elections - The Greens and Right Gain Ground at the loss of Establishment Power
BRUSSELS - One of the most important elections in recent European history draws to a close. Both anti-establishment left wing and right wing parties have gained ground, as environmentalism and nationalism is on the rise in Europe.
One of the hardest-fought European Parliament election in decades ended on Sunday with the anti-EU right and the pro-environment Greens both who have projected to gain ground at the expense of the continent's longtime political center. Shaking the EU for the first time in its history.
Le Pen said the expected result "confirms the new nationalist-globalist division" in France, Europe and the rest of the world.
Four days of balloting across the 28 European Union countries are seen as a test of the rising influence of the nationalist, populist and some fringe hard-right movements that have swept the continent in recent years, following the migration crisis and the economic turmoil that followed the market crash last decade.
The same has issues have impelled Britain to quit the EU altogether - a process that has been going on since the Brexit referendum three years ago on 23rd of June 2016.
Exit polls in France have indicated that Marine Le Pen's National Rally party came out on top in an astonishing rebuke of the very establishment politician French President Emmanuel Macron, who has made EU integration and preserving the status quo the heart of his presidency.
Exit polls have also indicated the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands), and its center-left coalition partner also suffered losses in the recent polls.
The very fabric of the EU is being challenged, the coming years will be interesting.