The European elections of 6 to 9 June, marked by a surge of the far-right in several countries, caused a political earthquake in France, without upsetting the major political balances within the Strasbourg hemicycle.
Estimates on Monday 10 June confirmed a rise for the nationalist and radical right in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Greece and the Netherlands and a crushing setback for the leaders of the EU’s two biggest powers, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President...