France, the EU's pivotal power, saw the biggest far-right gains. That prompted President Emmanuel Macron to call a high-risk snap election that could clear the way for Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National Rally to sweep into government.
Macron may be a lame-duck president cohabiting with a hostile hard-right government by this time next month. Yet at the European level, this grim result for EU progressives could still yield a positive result for their main priorities.
Mainstream parties have refused so far to make common cause at EU level with Eurosceptic populists, offering the centrist and centre-left parties a pathway to limit the damage and re-elect centre-right incumbent Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president.
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