Gillet & Santora, NYT
Liviu Dragnea, the head of the governing Social Democrats, was ordered to start serving a three and a half year sentence. His party was also handed a rebuke in European elections.
Dalibor Rohac, Politico EU
If the EU no longer faces the risk of collapse, it could still become ungovernable.
R. Peston, Spectator
I never thought I would live to see the Conservative and Unionist Party, dominator of British politics for centuries, falling to a vote share of nine per cent in a national election. Hindsight is
Hugo Drochon, New Statesman
Emmanuel Macron gambled, and lost. He invested himself personally in the European elections by presenting it as a referendum on himself. That, he thought, was the best way to stop Marine Le Pen from wining, by replaying the final match of the 2017 French presidential election, which he had won. It didn't work. Le Pen's National Rally, led by the young Jordan Bardella, arrived first with 23 per cent of the vote, just 1 per cent ahead of Macron's La Rpublique En Marche (LREM), at 22 per cent. Читать дальше...
European Council on Foreign Relations
Our national offices - and more! - analyse the results of yesterday
Jones, G'dian
A people's vote is now the only way out of the Tories' toxic mess, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Harold James, Project Syndicate
The European Parliament election was a long and complex story with a surprising and, for many, unsatisfactory outcome. Yet notwithstanding the muddled conclusion, a new European political order seems to be emerging one that is likely to leave traditional parties of both the left and the right behind.
