Europeans vote, with EU future in balanceA man casts his vote during European Parliament election in Riga, Latvia, May 25, 2019. However, exit polls in some countries that have already voted have given pro-EU parties some comfort. The Dutch Labour party, all but written off, looks to have finished first, helped by the visibility of having the EU socialists’ lead candidate, current EU deputy chief executive Frans Timmermans. In the Netherlands pro-Union parties scored 70 per cent, up three points on the last European Parliament vote in 2014, and left the upstart anti-immigration party of Thierry Baudet fourth on 11 per cent. An exit poll after Friday’s vote in deeply pro-EU Ireland pointed to an expected “Green Wave”.

Source: Standard Digital May 26, 2019 05:03 UTC