Gains for far-right and Eurosceptic parties across Europe

Far-right and Eurosceptic parties have made sweeping gains in European Parliament elections, triggering what one prime minister called a political "earthquake" by those seeking to slash the EU's powers or abolish it altogether.

Mon, 26 May, 2014 - 09:21

Voters in 21 of the European Union's 28 nations went to the polls yesterday to choose MEPs for the bloc's 751-seat legislature.

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