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Previously in sixth place, the Greens are now the fourth strongest force in the European Parliament. Their group is expected to secure 69 seats - 17 more than at the start of the 2014 electoral period. Roughly a third of voters under 30 voted green. Commentators look at the reasons for this success and predict that Green parties will soon become even stronger.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a snap election after the conservative opposition party Nea Dimokratia left his Syriza party trailing nine percentage points behind in the EU elections. The vote could take place as early as June 30. The country's media sees the decision as inevitable.

Romania's supreme court on Monday upheld a prison sentence against the leader of the Romanian ruling party PSD, Liviu Dragnea. He will now spend three and a half years behind bars. His party also suffered major losses in the European elections, coming in second behind the liberal PNL. The media is not surprised by the PSD's dismal results.

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Acting Austrian chancellor Hartwig Loeger will attend Tuesday's EU summit of national leaders, in the wake of Sebastian Kurz's losing power in Vienna on Monday, following a vote of no-confidence by both his scandal-hit hard-right coalition partners, the Freedom Party, and the centre-left SPO socialists. Loeger is Austria's finance minister, as well as acting chancellor.

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Formula One’s electric cousin came to Berlin’s defunct Tempelhof Airport on Saturday (25 May), in the latest round of a rapidly advancing sport. Formula E’s fortunes have progressed hand-in-hand with those of electric vehicles in general.

EU leaders flock to Brussels for a top jobs summit on Tuesday, with Germany's main candidate under fire by France and Spain.

A hundred-meter queue stretches on Boulevard du Régent in Brussels where foreign embassies are located. Occasional shouts – "Let us vote!” – pierce through the usually quiet neighbourhood.

Spanish ministers Teresa Ribera (energy) and Maria Jesus Montero (budget) sent a letter last week to the European Commission proposing an assessment of a carbon tax for all imports, Reuters reported Monday. "Custom duties are traditional own budgetary resources; therefore, a carbon border tax would perfectly fit within the traditional EU approach on this field," the letter said. French president Emmanuel Macron also supports a carbon border tax.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn now supports a second referendum on Brexit, he said a day after his centre-left party did poorly at European Parliament elections. "We are ready to support a public vote on any deal," Corbyn wrote to MPs the Guardian reported. Labour received 14 percent of the votes and ended third, behind the Brexit Party and the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.

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