They all agree: scarcely a politician in the European Union denies that yesterday’s was a shocker, not merely for individual parties, but for the credibility of democracy.
Across Europe, only 43 per cent of voters bothered to turn out, against 62 per cent back in idealistic 1979. Margot Wallstrom, vice-president of the EU, admitted yesterday that this figure ‘does affect the legitimacy of the EU’.
In Holland, Austria, Denmark, Slovakia and Hungary, fringe and frankly lunatic parties gained ground. for more click here