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...first European Parliament elections since E.U. expansion, citizens yawned at the grand experiment: 45.5% - an all-time low - took part. Turnout was worst in the new E.U. states; 21% of Poles and 17% of Slovaks cast ballots. Voters punished ruling parties and boosted Euro-skeptics across the E.U. Austria Voters said Ja to reform in the European Parliament, giving two seats to a list led by whistle-blower Hans-Peter Martin The far-right Freedom Party lost four of its five seats, sparking an emergency change in leadership Belgium Popular with Flemish voters but vilified by the mainstream parties...
...NILS LUNDGREN, Euro-skeptic Swedish M.E.P...
...system of "qualified majority voting" on issues like the environment, transportation and agriculture: if 55% of members, making up at least 15 states and representing 65% of the E.U. population, agree, the measure passes. But those moves toward a closer and more powerful union had Euro-skeptics howling - not just in Britain, the ancestral home of the skeptics, but also in places like Denmark and Poland, where some are suspicious that an E.U. speaking with a single voice will drown theirs out. Does this constitution, as the Euro-skeptics claim, push the E.U. far down the path to a single...
...want for their country within the European Union that they were expected to hand more than 10% of the parliamentary vote to an anti-E.U. splinter group called the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP). And the UKIP was likely to pull votes from the famously (but more moderately) Euro-skeptical Tories - who stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing Euro- hatred - they want Britain out of the E.U., period - was projected to show up in results from other countries too, including...
...POLAND President Aleksander Kwasniewski nominated the leftist former Finance Minister Marek Belka as Prime Minister, again. Belka has two weeks to rally support ahead of a vote of confidence in parliament, which bounced his first nomination in May. A second rejection would trigger a general election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament...