European elections: Crisis of Europe's Left is the most important outcome

"The most important aspect of the European elections that ended yesterday is the serious crisis affecting Europe's Left," the conservative Spanish daily ABC writes: "The Left was defeated in the most important countries where it is in government, as was the case in Spain and Portugal, or it was badly thrashed, as in Austria, or it was simply humiliated, as in the UK and Hungary. And where it is in the opposition - in Italy or France - or wants to be an alternative, like in Germany, its losses were also crippling. … The European People's Party has emerged strengthened from this election and become the most important European group: with its current members it holds 300 of the 736 seats. It is now up to it to put a halt to the growing Euroscepticism."

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