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IPFS News Link • European Union

4 reasons you should care about the EU elections...

• http://www.globalpost.com, Paul Ames
This week, 380 million voters in 28 countries get to select the 751 lawmakers who sit in the European Parliament. The latest polls show a narrow victory for the center-right European People's Party, which includes national parties led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. The EPP is expected to get 28 percent. The center-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats of French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is likely to finish second with 26 percent. Behind them will come Liberals, Greens, a group led by the British Conservatives and a growing assortment of radicals on the left and right who share a common dislike for the European Union.

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