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2019-05-27 17:03:22Z
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European Parliament elections: 5 takeaways from the results - NBC News
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LONDON — The dust has settled on the world's second largest democratic exercise, a continent-wide vote that has left Europe's political landscape reshaped.
Last week, some 373 million citizens across 28 countries took part in elections for the European Parliament, which makes laws that bind the political and economic bloc. The results rolled in on Sunday night.
Far-right populists had some wins, but it wasn't quite the dramatic, widespread surge seen in recent elections at the national and local level across the continent.
What is clear is that the mainstream parties from the center-left and center-right hemorrhaged votes, with much of their support going to a fragmented collection of environmentalists and pro-European Union liberals.
Here are five key takeaways.
1. The far-right surge never quite came
Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, called for these elections to be a referendum endorsing his right-wing populist vision for Europe. But while there were some victories for this camp, the full-blown tsunami that some predicted failed to materialize.
Right-wing populists fell short of expectations in Austria, the Netherlands and Denmark, while Germany's AfD party made only slight gains.
Even in France, where Marine le Pen's National Rally came first, beating President Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party, its provisional vote share was down on the last European Parliament elections in 2014.
"The big story is that the nationalist populists have not managed to turn this into a referendum on the E.U.," said Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Brussels-based think tank. "People like Bannon have failed."
That said, while the gains might not have been as dramatic as some forecast, the election arguably cemented far-right populism as a European force that isn't going away soon. Such parties are often anti-migrant, anti-Muslim and anti-E.U., or at least wish to radically reshape the bloc from within.
There were clear victories for the right in Poland, Hungary and Italy. "The rules are changing in Europe," said Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy's far-right League party which got around 34 percent of the vote there. "A new Europe is born."
Britain's Brexit Party was also victorious, securing around one-third of the vote and relegating the ruling Conservatives to fifth place at a dismal 9 percent. However, the U.K. should perhaps be seen as a special case due to the country's protracted and messy attempts to leave the European Union.
2. The collapse of the mainstream
For the first time, the traditional center-left and center-right parties will not have a majority in the European Parliament's 751-seat chamber.
The Social Democrats and the European People's Party, groupings which have dominated for years, lost 39 and 36 seats respectively, according to provisional results.
"This is a profound change," said Janis A. Emmanouilidis, director of studies at the European Policy Centre, another Brussels-based think tank. "The two biggest parties have lost a significant number of seats."
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However, voters often use the E.U. elections to give major parties a bloody nose, secure in the knowledge that it will not cause upheaval in their own national parliaments.
Even so, Sunday's results represented a seismic rejection of the traditional ruling parties across the continent.
"We are facing a shrinking center of the European Union parliament," Manfred Weber, chairman of the European People's Party said. "From now on, those who want to have a strong European Union have to join forces."
The one exception was in Spain, where the Socialists looked set to gain 20 of the country's 54 seats. The Socialists belong to the wider Social Democrats group, however, for whom the general outlook was far more bleak.
"If you lose an election, if you lose seats, you have to be modest," added Frans Timmermans, the lead candidate for the Social Democrats. "We have lost seats and this means that we have to be humble."
3. More than Green shoots
Riding something of an environmentalist wave washing over Europe, the continent's Green group made big gains.
This was most evident in Germany, where the Greens doubled their provisional vote share to 21 percent and overtook the country's traditional center-left Social Democrats in the process.
In France and Britain, the Greens also did well, placing third and fourth respectively. More subtly, environmental issues were given increased prominence in the manifestos of other parties, too.
This shift comes on the back of months of demonstrations demanding action over climate change. In May, the United Nations released a report warning 1 million species of plants and animals were under threat of extinction.
"We will work tirelessly. For people. For Europe. For our planet!" the European Greens tweeted.
4. Pro-E.U. liberals make gains
Another group that mopped up support from the traditional parties was the pro-Europe, pro-business liberal centrists.
Parties allied with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe — known as ALDE — looked set to increase their number of seats from 68 to 109, although this was largely thanks to Macron's En Marche party joining them.
ALDE is led by Guy Verhofstadt, one of the E.U.'s most ardent defenders against populist forces that wish to dismantle or disrupt the union.
The boost in support suggests that voters, especially young people, came out to back their side of the argument.
"When Europe is threatened, you have seen the youth mobilizing to defend it," said Torreblanca at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
The BBC also reported that turnout in the U.K. surged in areas that supported the country staying in the E.U. in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Britain's Liberal Democrats came second with 20 percent of the vote. They were one of the parties to explicitly oppose Brexit, and gained huge support in Remain-backing areas, including beating Labour in that party's erstwhile stronghold of London.
5. Good luck trying to govern now
This was the first time in Europe's history that turnout for these elections has risen, climbing from 43 percent to an encouraging 51 percent.
"This is noteworthy," said Emmanouilidis at the European Policy Centre, calling the leap "remarkably higher."
Yet the results spell a European Parliament that is going to be far more fragmented than it has been in recent years.
The two centrist giants bled support and will be unable to form the kind of "grand coalition" that they had before. Instead they might need another coalition partner or two, meaning more compromise and room for disagreement on key issues.
Timmermans, of the Social Democrats, has already ruled out attempting to build a coalition with the far-right, calling instead for a "progressive" grouping to be formed.
"It will become quite messy," said Emmanouilidis, describing attempts to find consensus in Brussels "an uphill struggle" at the best of times.
Reuters contributed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/european-parliament-elections-5-takeaways-results-n1010491
2019-05-27 14:03:00Z
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In Trump's Japan Visit, Golf, Sumo Wrestling — And A Raft Of Policy Differences - NPR
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Monday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
The optics and the rhetoric of President Trump's state visit to Japan aimed to show two allies at their closest in history, at the start of a new Japanese emperor's reign. Trump is the first state guest to visit since Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1. On Sunday, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared a round of golf, attended a sumo wrestling match and had a barbecue dinner.
But on Monday, a joint press conference with the two leaders revealed the two countries struggling to manage differences over a raft of policy issues — in particular, bilateral trade, North Korea and Iran.
President Trump walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before playing a round of golf on Sunday in Shiba, Japan. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
One of Japan's top concerns is that the U.S. is threatening tariffs on Japanese car exports to the U.S. if a deal is not reached in six months. Those exports are a mainstay of the Japanese economy, and Tokyo is unnerved to hear that its chief ally classifies Japan's trade surplus as a security threat.
"When I talk about a security threat, I talk about a balance sheet," Trump said at Monday's press conference at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo.
In its defense, Japan points out that it produces more cars in the U.S. than it exports there, and that investment has surged under the Trump administration, creating tens of thousands of U.S. jobs.
President Trump acknowledged that Japan has lowered its trade surplus, with plans to purchase more than 100 U.S. F-35 warplanes, more than any other ally.
Trump is expected to highlight that purchase on Tuesday, when he plans to visit the port of Yokosuka, home to both U.S. and Japanese warships. Japan's legislature has approved plans to convert helicopter carriers to accommodate F-35s, giving it its first aircraft carriers since World War II.
President Trump presents the President's Cup to the Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament winner Asanoyama on Sunday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Trump suggested that any trade deal would have to wait until after Japan's parliamentary elections in July. Washington has its hands full with an ongoing trade war with China, and Abe could lose votes if he makes big concessions to the U.S. before the poll.
Analysts say Abe seeks to cement a two-thirds majority in Japan's parliament to achieve his long-held goal of rewriting Japan's U.S.-drafted postwar constitution, which limits the role of Japan's emperor and its military.
"I think he thinks of this as unfinished family business," says Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University's Japan campus in Tokyo. "This is something that his grandfather Kishi Nobusuke had wanted to do. So I think that he feels that this would bring completion to his political career."
Nobusuke served as Japan's prime minister from 1957 to 1960.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a state banquet with Japanese Emperor Naruhito (second from right), and Empress Masako (left) on Monday in Tokyo. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Washington is still eager to strike a trade deal, though, because Japan has signed trade agreements with big agricultural producers, including Australia and Canada, allowing their farmers and ranchers to grab market share from their U.S. competitors. The Trump administration has criticized Japan's move as unfriendly.
"What you're looking at is a U.S. government that is demanding what it could have had, and is unfortunately not in a position to acknowledge that," says Brad Glosserman, deputy director of the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama University in Tokyo.
Previously, the U.S. had proposed and then negotiated a trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Glosserman points out, but Trump walked out on it.
"I'm not bound by anything that anybody else signs, with respect to the United States," Trump said at Monday's press briefing. The TPP, he said, "would have destroyed our automobile industry and many of our manufacturers."
Trump reiterated his indifference to North Korea's short-range missile tests this month, despite criticism of the launches from his own national security adviser, John Bolton. The tests also worry South Korea and Japan, both of which are within the missiles' striking range. So are some U.S. military bases in these countries.
But Trump pointed to the lack of nuclear and long-range missile tests as signs of his diplomatic success with North Korea. "I am very happy with the way it's going, and intelligent people agree with me," he said.
Abe is the only regional leader who has not met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and therefore has less to offer the U.S. as a mediator.
This is not the case with Iran, with which Japan has long had friendly ties. Japan has also been highly reliant on Iranian oil, but has had to cut that reliance due to U.S. sanctions. Prime Minister Abe is considering traveling to Iran next month, and at Monday's briefing, he pledged to do whatever he could to mediate.
Japanese media have reported that Tehran would like Tokyo to mediate with the U.S. on its behalf.
Japan has supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which President Trump pulled the U.S. out of.
"This is one of the few issues on which Japan very clearly takes a position that is contrary to the U.S. government. And usually, Abe's pretty good about positioning himself to be the faithful ally" of the U.S., says Daniel Sneider, a Japan expert at Stanford University.
All the policy talk on the second full day of Trump's visit stood in sharp contrast to the first day, which was centered around golf, sumo wrestling, burgers and steak. The schedule was clearly calculated to please Trump and highlight the closeness of the two leaders.
Trump and Abe "are good friends, it seems, but that is not the issue," says Kunihiko Miyake, a former diplomat and now research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo.
"This is not just for Mr. Trump," he says, "this is for the president of the United States." And once the ceremonies are finished, the U.S. and Japanese leaders must cooperate on facing urgent strategic challenges, including the rise of Iran and China.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/727280758/in-trumps-japan-visit-golf-sumo-wrestling-and-a-raft-of-policy-differences
2019-05-27 13:54:00Z
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Britain’s main parties hammered in E.U. elections — voters opt for those with clearer stances on Brexit - The Washington Post
LONDON — Britain’s two main parties were punished in the European elections, with results coming in on Monday showing that voters had rejected their handling of Brexit and turned to parties that were unequivocally pro-Brexit or pro-European Union.
Nigel Farage’s single-issue Brexit Party was the clear winner of the elections, with the potential to impact the race over who becomes the next British prime minister.
The pro-E.U. Liberal Democrats and the Greens — who also have a simple message on Brexit: stop it — made significant gains as well. Overall, support for all the parties that are unabashedly pro-European was slightly higher than those that are pushing for a hard Brexit.
In other words, Britain is as divided as ever.
Analysts said the impact of the elections could see Britain’s two main political parties face growing pressure to move away from the middle ground to support even more extreme positions on Brexit.
In the race to replace Theresa May, who on Friday announced that she would step down as British prime minister, the issue of whether to back a once unthinkable “no-deal” Brexit — like Farage does — is now dominant. At least eight Conservative members of Parliament have publicly declared they will compete for the top job.
Boris Johnson, a Conservative Party lawmaker and the front-runner to become the next prime minister, called the European elections a “crushing rebuke.” Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph, he said: “The message from these results is clear. If we go on like this, we will be fired: dismissed from the job of running the country.”
The Conservative Party came in fifth place, winning a paltry 9 percent of the vote. Their dismal showing could see the party shying away from pushing for an early general election, over fears that they could see a similar wipeout.
May tweeted that “very disappointing” results showed the “importance of finding a Brexit deal, and I sincerely hope these results focus minds in Parliament.”
If Farage’s triumph in these elections pushes the Conservative Party onto his turf, it wouldn’t be the first time. The poll-topping performance in the 2014 European elections of the right wing, anti-Europe UKIP — then led by Farage — is thought to be one of the reasons then Prime Minister David Cameron called for the referendum that sent Britain down the whole rocky road of Brexit to begin with.
On Monday, Farage said that if Britain doesn’t leave on Oct. 31, the current deadline, then his party would repeat its success in a general election.
“We will contest all 650 seats across the country at the next general election. I will not stop until the job is done,” he tweeted.
[European voters deny centrists a majority, boost euroskeptics and Greens]
The opposition Labour Party faced renewed calls to unambiguously back a second Brexit referendum following their poor showing in the elections. They came in third place behind the Liberal Democrats, who saw a surge in support especially in areas that backed “remain” in the 2016 referendum. It did not go unnoticed that the Liberal Democrats topped the poll in Islington, the London constituency of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour Party politician, told BBC that Labour wasn’t clear enough on its position on Brexit and that it needed to learn lessons. Voters, she said, backed parties whose policy “could be summed up in one word or three words.”
Jo Swinson, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, whose slogan was “Bollocks to Brexit,” said that the results showed that the “growing liberal movement that can stand up to the forces of nationalism and populism” is winning.
It was a bad election for Tommy Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner who stood as an independent. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, received only 2.2 percent of the vote. He reportedly slipped out of the election count early.
ChangeUK, a newly-formed pro-E.U. party whose candidates included Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris Johnson, performed badly, as did the nationalist UKIP.
Until recently, Britain was not scheduled to take part in the European elections, the second-largest exercise in democracy in the world. But Britain was forced to field candidates after it failed to leave the bloc on March 29 as scheduled.
Read more:
Five things to know about Europe’s surprisingly dramatic parliamentary elections
The farce of Britain’s European election
What happens next with Brexit, now that Theresa May is resigning?
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2019-05-27 12:53:56Z
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Britain’s main parties hammered in E.U. elections — voters opt for those with clearer stances on Brexit - The Washington Post
LONDON — Britain’s two main parties were punished in the European elections, with results coming in on Monday showing that voters had rejected their handling of Brexit and turned to parties that were unequivocally pro-Brexit or pro-European Union.
Nigel Farage’s single-issue Brexit Party was the clear winner of the elections, with the potential to impact the race over who becomes the next British prime minister.
The pro-E.U. Liberal Democrats and the Greens — who also have a simple message on Brexit: stop it — made significant gains as well. Overall, support for all the parties that are unabashedly pro-European was slightly higher than those that are pushing for a hard Brexit.
In other words, Britain is as divided as ever.
Analysts said the impact of the elections could see Britain’s two main political parties face growing pressure to move away from the middle ground to support even more extreme positions on Brexit.
In the race to replace Theresa May, who on Friday announced that she would step down as British prime minister, the issue of whether to back a once unthinkable “no-deal” Brexit — like Farage does — is now dominant. At least eight Conservative members of Parliament have publicly declared they will compete for the top job.
Boris Johnson, a Conservative Party lawmaker and the front-runner to become the next prime minister, called the European elections a “crushing rebuke.” Writing in his weekly column in the Daily Telegraph, he said: “The message from these results is clear. If we go on like this, we will be fired: dismissed from the job of running the country.”
The Conservative Party came in fifth place, winning a paltry 9 percent of the vote. Their dismal showing could see the party shying away from pushing for an early general election, over fears that they could see a similar wipeout.
May tweeted that “very disappointing” results showed the “importance of finding a Brexit deal, and I sincerely hope these results focus minds in Parliament.”
If Farage’s triumph in these elections pushes the Conservative Party onto his turf, it wouldn’t be the first time. The poll-topping performance in the 2014 European elections of the right wing, anti-Europe UKIP — then led by Farage — is thought to be one of the reasons then Prime Minister David Cameron called for the referendum that sent Britain down the whole rocky road of Brexit to begin with.
On Monday, Farage said that if Britain doesn’t leave on Oct. 31, the current deadline, then his party would repeat its success in a general election.
“We will contest all 650 seats across the country at the next general election. I will not stop until the job is done,” he tweeted.
[European voters deny centrists a majority, boost euroskeptics and Greens]
The opposition Labour Party faced renewed calls to unambiguously back a second Brexit referendum following their poor showing in the elections. They came in third place behind the Liberal Democrats, who saw a surge in support especially in areas that backed “remain” in the 2016 referendum. It did not go unnoticed that the Liberal Democrats topped the poll in Islington, the London constituency of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour Party politician, told BBC that Labour wasn’t clear enough on its position on Brexit and that it needed to learn lessons. Voters, she said, backed parties whose policy “could be summed up in one word or three words.”
Jo Swinson, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, whose slogan was “Bollocks to Brexit,” said that the results showed that the “growing liberal movement that can stand up to the forces of nationalism and populism” is winning.
It was a bad election for Tommy Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner who stood as an independent. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, received only 2.2 percent of the vote. He reportedly slipped out of the election count early.
ChangeUK, a newly-formed pro-E.U. party whose candidates included Rachel Johnson, sister of Boris Johnson, performed badly, as did the nationalist UKIP.
Until recently, Britain was not scheduled to take part in the European elections, the second-largest exercise in democracy in the world. But Britain was forced to field candidates after it failed to leave the bloc on March 29 as scheduled.
Read more:
Five things to know about Europe’s surprisingly dramatic parliamentary elections
The farce of Britain’s European election
What happens next with Brexit, now that Theresa May is resigning?
Today’s coverage from Post correspondents around the world
Like Washington Post World on Facebook and stay updated on foreign news
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2019-05-27 12:45:00Z
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Trump backs Kim Jong Un attack on VP Biden - ABC News
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2019-05-27 11:36:00Z
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8 key takeaways from the European election 2019 results - CNN
Over four days last week voters across 28 countries delivered the highest turnout in a European election for 20 years as they selected new representatives to sit in the European Parliament.
Here are some of the key takeaways:
- Traditional centrist parties took a drubbing, with the so-called Grand Coalition -- which consists of the center-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) bloc and the center-right European People's Party (EPP) -- losing more than 70 seats and its majority in the EU parliament. One of the key figures in the S&D is Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, while German chancellor Angela Merkel is part of the EPP. In contrast, liberal-centrist grouping the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE&R), which includes French President Emmanuel Macron, picked up 32 seats and will now play an important role in nominating officials for key EU positions.
- In the UK, the Brexit Party, led by arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage, took home 31.71% of the vote. This is almost equivalent to the vote share of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats combined and reflects growing dissatisfaction with traditional UK parties. It's worth noting that the Brexit Party took most of its seats from the UK Independence Party, Farage's previous political vehicle.
- Spain's Socialist party recorded another strong performance following a general election win in late April, winning 32.84% of the vote. Center-right parties the People's Party (20.1%) and Ciudadanos (12.2%) came second and third as Spain bucked the general European trend towards political extremes. Far-right party Vox won just 6.2% of the vote.
- Results in France provided further evidence that a predicted surge in support for far-right populist parties did not materialize. Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally won with 23.31% of the votes, according to the French Ministry of Interior, beating French president Emmanuel Macron's La République En Marche alliance on 22.41%. However Le Pen's vote share was a slight decrease compared to 2014, when her Front National party gained 24.86% of the vote.
- In Italy, the right-wing Lega Party, led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, took victory with 33.64% of the vote. Euroskeptic Salvini said that he will try to form an anti-EU bloc with Marine Le Pen and Hungary's Viktor Orban. It's unclear if that will materialize.
- Orban, Hungary's far-right nationalist prime minister, scored a huge win after his Fidesz party received 52.14% of the country's votes. That's more than three times the amount of the second most popular party, the left-wing Democratic Coalition, which received just 16.26%.
- The Green Party alliance posted its strongest ever performance in European elections, winning 70 seats and taking 9.32% of the vote -- a rise from 2014 when they took 50 seats. Much of the party's gains came from northern Europe, including the UK, Ireland, France and Germany, where young people have staged marches calling for political action over climate change.
- Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would call a snap election after a poor performance for his party at European and local elections. The opposition conservative party "New Democracy" won 33.27% of the vote, with a lead over the governing Coalition of the Radical Left "Syriza", currently at 23.85%.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/27/europe/european-elections-takeaways-intl/index.html
2019-05-27 10:59:00Z
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