Hundreds of millions head to polls on final day of European elections

The four-day election cycle began in the Netherlands on Thursday. Voters queue at a polling station at The Hague Central station. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock

Hundreds of millions of voters are going to the polls in European parliament elections that are expected to tilt the assembly further to the radical and far right, shaping the continent’s future course.

Voters in most EU member states, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland, are called to the polls on Sunday, the final day of a four-day election cycle that began in the Netherlands on Thursday.