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For safe travel --- keep to the Right
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Europe lurches right now --- see the US in November
Europe lurches right - POLITICO
VOTERS TURN RIGHT: For once, the polls broadly held true. Europe is coming to terms this morning with a surge in support for far-right parties and a backlash against governing centrists, led by the continent’s biggest countries — France and Germany.
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Quelle surprise! French President Emmanuel Macron had barely waved United States President Joe Biden onto Air Force One after a state visit when he announced to a stunned nation his intention to dissolve the national assembly and hold fresh elections, after his party was trounced by far-right National Rally (RN).
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The center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Sholz finished third, behind the far-right Alternative for Germany, with his two coalition partners also performing dismally.
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Europe's night of election drama capped by Macron bombshell
European elections: Dramatic night across EU capped by Macron bombshell (bbc.com)
France’s result was one of the big gains that Europe’s far-right parties had expected, and confirmation came with all the exit polls giving National Rally more than 30% of the vote, double that of Mr Macron’s centrist Renaissance party.
But beyond France, the broader story of Europe's four-day vote marathon really belonged to the parties of the centre-right.
They strengthened their majority in the European Parliament, with victories in Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain, and significant advances in Hungary, against long-dominant Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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Macron and his old lady – no really: He’s 45 and She’s 71
Brigitte Macron says her ‘head was in a mess’ when she dated future French president when he was 15 and she was 40 and his teacher.
(Don’t they have laws about that in France? Apparently Not!)
Brigitte Macron opens up about dating her 15-year old student and future French president (nypost.com)
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