European Elections
Monday June 08 2009
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP swept to an easy victory in the European elections despite his personal unpopularity, almost doubling its number of MEPs. But it was the amazing breakthrough of the Ecologists, who got within a hair's breadth of the...

Monday June 08 2009
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With voter turnout dropping to a record low of 43.01 per cent - down from 45.47 in 2004 - RFI gives a country-by-country breakdown of what the next European Parliament will look like. Click on the country below to get full national results.

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Sunday June 07 2009
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Europe has elected its angriest, most eurosceptic and xenophobic parliament ever - with a battalion of hard-right parties breaking through for the first time on a wave of anti-immigrant feeling and an unholy cocktail of both Islamophobia and ...

Sunday June 07 2009
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In Saint Denis de la Reunion, Jean-Herve and his wife Marie-Elaine will be among the first at the polling booth tomorrow morning, determined to use their vote to ensure that "France remains for the French".

As the couple - who are proud of their mixed Indian, Malagasy...

Sunday June 07 2009
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Dutch party-poopers may have leaked their results early, but the other 26 EU members are yet to declare their winners...