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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Europe\u2019s\u00a0drift to the right<\/a>\u00a0has been a long journey that\u2019s seen the continent\u2019s mainstream increasingly accommodate people with Euroskeptic views that were once fringe.\n <\/p>\n \n The\u00a0projected gains for the hard\u00a0right in the\u00a0European\u00a0parliamentary elections<\/a>\u00a0may seem modest in terms of pure\u00a0numbers,\u00a0but\u00a0they are significant.\n <\/p>\n \n The results<\/a>\u00a0represent a major challenge to the pro-Europe mainstream officials who dominate the institutions\u00a0of the European Union.\n <\/p>\n \n The advances chalked up by far-right parties may not be unexpected, and they don\u2019t pose an existential crisis for the EU. But they\u00a0show how the Euroskeptic right could, in the coming years, tighten\u00a0its\u00a0grip on the direction\u00a0of the union.\n <\/p>\n \n Over the next 24 hours,\u00a0the parties of the center \u2013\u00a0projected to remain the largest bloc in the European Parliament \u2013\u00a0will likely talk of a \u201cgrand coalition\u201d to counter the rise of the far right.\u00a0And while the far right is on course to make large gains, the center parties remain ahead.\n <\/p>\n \n On paper, these pro-EU parties can claim victory. On numbers alone, the centrist coalition has held. The center-right European People\u2019s Party, the center-left Socialists and Democrats, and the liberal Renew Europe are the three largest groups in the European Parliament. When you throw the pro-Europe Greens into that, the center is by far the largest block.\n <\/p>\n \n Read the full analysis here.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n