Election warning
Eurosceptic parties are on course to take a third of seats in May’s European Parliament elections and could form alliances to destroy the EU from within, a think-tank has claimed. Anti-establishment parties could band together to block or curb EU legislation if they won 33 per cent of the 751 seats, the European Council on Foreign Relations said in a report. Far-right parties were predicted to win 132 seats (19 per cent), traditional “conservative Eurosceptics” 65 seats (9 per cent) and other antiestablishment parties, including the hard-left, 53 seats (8 per cent).