131 Getting closer to the EU M10 EU-elections in May 2014 – Headlines M 11 The European Parliament 1.3 EU institutions and the EU of the people Shot Across the Bow Eurosceptic and anti-European parties made big gains in the European Parliament elections. Vote projections indicate that those parties could get about 140 of 751 seats in the EU legislature. 190 Left-leaning Greens/ European Free Alliance Socialists & Democrats 2009 election 2014 election European United Left/ Nordic Green left Sources: TNS/ Scyt in cooperation with the European Parliament *Mostly Anti-EU The Wall Street Journal Alliance of Liberals & Democrats for Europe European People’s Party European Conservatives & Reformists Europe of Freedom & Democracy Unaffiliated* Centrist Right-leaning 53 64 213 46 38 105 35 196 57 83 274 57 31 33 50 % 42 F I N A N C I A L T I M E S U k i p a n d F N l e a d p o p u l i s t e a r t h q u a k e B B C N E W S E u r o p e E u r o s k e p t i c ‘ e a r t h q u a k e ’ r o c k s E U e l e c t i o n s T H E I R I S H T I M E S S h a r p r i s e i n s u p p o r t f o r E u r o s c e p t i c p a r t i e s t h e d o m i n a n t s t o r y a c r o s s E U W h ile m a in stre a m p a rtie s h o ld b a la n ce o f p o w e r, p ro te st vo te is su b sta n tia l The INDEPENDENT Ukip tops polls in UK. National Front wins in France. Greek neo-Nazis secure firstMEPs.This is the day Europe took a swing to the right R e u t e r s F r e n c h f a r r i g h t i n ‘ e a r t h q u a k e ’ E u r o p e v o t e s The Telegraph Ukip storms European elections, ‘terrifying’ political establishment T H E H U F F I N G T O N P O S T U N I T E D K I N G D O M E u r o p e a n E l e c t i o n s 2 0 1 4 : G e r m a n P a r t y D u b b e d ‘ N e o N a z i s ’ A m o n g F a r R i g h t P r o j e c t e d T o W i n S e a t s BloombergBusinessweek Bloomberg News EU Protest Forces Surge Posing Threat From U.K. to Greece NewsFromBloomberg S k y N e w s E u r o s c e p t i c p a r t i e s s h a k e E U p o l l s M i r r o r M a r i n e L e P e n ’ s F r o n t N a t i o n a l r o c k s E u r o p e a f t e r t o p p i n g E u r o p o l l s i n F r a n c e 71051_1_1_2015_Inhalt_4.indd 13 21.01.15 10:39 Nu r z u Pr üf zw ec ke n Ei ge nt u d es C .C .B uc hn er V er la gs