Like London buses, you wait an age for one big consequential European election and then several come along at once.
Up to last week, the continent’s midsummer election spotlight was all on the UK (where the polls still point to a thumping Labour victory on 4 July). But that was before President Emmanuel Macron’s calling of a snap parliamentary vote in France – in light of a strong far right showing in this month’s European elections – which many experts fear could give Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) a real political grip over the country.
