AfD MP Petr Bystron said the poll results are “fully in line with the pan-European trend, populist parties are on the rise everywhere.”

It has surfaced that certain socialist-party candidates have been involved in a kidnapping plot, electoral fraud, and South American criminal gangs.

As all leftist parties and the center-right EPP voted to support the unprecedented measures, 67 conservative MEPs took Hungary’s side, asking the Commission not to give in to the left’s politically motivated blackmail.

“Let [Western Europe] do these social experiments on their own citizens, with their own money, and leave Poland out of it,” MEP Kosma Złotowski told the EuroCon, as Warsaw pledges to resist migrant quotas.

Malta’s pro-life movement is battling in defence of the youngest and most vulnerable members of their society, and it is an inspiring thing to see.

“We should strip this presidency of all glitter and glamor,” the mostly leftist coalition argued, saying that they can’t let Orbán become “face of the European Union.”

The manifestly anti-democratic nature of such a decision, and the exclusion of tens of millions of European citizens who would thus be deprived of their country’s six-month presidency, is not even raised in the Meijers Committee report. 

By calling for early elections, Sánchez is likely working to deny the country’s right-of-center opposition any additional time to further increase its share of the vote.

In Spain, the turn to the Right has aimed closer to center, bypassing VOX.

Those who set the direction of what came to be called the National Revolution didn’t quite know what they wanted, but they certainly knew what they didn’t want: the growing radicalisation and constitutional crises, against a threatening backdrop of Communism, seen elsewhere in postwar Europe.

Spain’s local elections are setting the stage for general elections in December.

“We cannot establish numbers [of immigrants to be received], as this will depend on the needs of Spain’s labour market,” said the Spanish PM.