Why has Greece chosen a far-left government at a time when discontented and frustrated voters elsewhere in Europe have turned to the far right?

As heads rolled over the European Parliament election results in several countries, French president François Hollande went on TV to respond to the shock victory of far-right Front National.

The centre has held in Europe with the pro-EU parties taking most of the seats, says Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

Exit polls showed the far right and Eurosceptics making sweeping gains in European Parliament elections, signalling a major political shift toward parties that want to slash the European Union’s powers or abolish it altogether.

Danes have defended the killing of a healthy giraffe at Copenhagen zoo that triggered outrage after it was skinned and fed to lions in front of visitors.

Denmark elected its first female prime minister last night, ousting the right-wing government from power after 10 years of pro-market reforms and ever-stricter controls on immigration.

Danish voters appeared set to elect their first female prime minister today and end 10 years of pro-market reforms and a hardening of immigration laws.

“WE must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately,” Polish finance minister Jacek Rostowski warned over the weekend, quoting the phrase attributed to Benjamin Franklin as he signed the US declaration of independence.

Denmark’s main opposition party and a government ally today called for an investigation of a national Muslim group’s Middle East trip, which has been blamed for fanning the furore over a newspaper’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Danes are pointing fingers at a shadowy grouping of Muslim leaders, accusing them of instigating a global firestorm over drawings of the Prophet Mohammed during their recent trips to the Middle East.