Less than a week after Pope Francis called on people to recognise migrants as “a living image of God’s people on their way to the eternal homeland”, voters across Europe dealt a potentially serious blow to that vision by rewarding right-wing, anti-immigration parties in elections for the European parliament.
While mainstream, pro-EU forces are still expected to put together a governing majority, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proclaiming that the results show that “the centre is holding”, a major theme in the June 6-9 electionswas the strong showing of parties from the Right of the political spectrum in several nations.
