Polls open in 20 countries in European Parliament elections

Voters fill in their ballot papers at a polling station during European Parliament and local elections in Salgotarjan, Hungary (Peter Komka/MTI/AP)

Polls have opened in 20 EU countries, from Sweden and Lithuania in the north to Portugal and Cyprus in the south, as voters choose their representatives for the next five-year term of the European Parliament.

It comes amid concern that a likely shift to the political right will undermine the ability of the world’s biggest trading bloc to take decisions as war rages in Ukraine and anti-migrant sentiment mounts.