Despite many predictions, Europe’s far-right Eurosceptic parties, recently galvanized by former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, failed to increase their seats in this weekend’s elections for the European Parliament. But one political group was able to defy expectations and come higher than polls predicted – the European Greens. For the first time in the history of the European Parliament, they will not between them have a governing majority. Parties within the Party of European Socialists and the Green political families have for years called for stronger EU action on climate change. The Liberals were deemed to be “delayers, who generally support climate action, but do not act with the required urgency:.

Source: Forbes May 27, 2019 16:07 UTC