Surfing the Green wave? Climate party hopes ride high in EU vote


  • World
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Members of the European Greens party Gabor Vago and Bas Eickhout campaign for the European Elections in Budapest, Hungary May 3, 2019. Gabor Banko/LMP/Handout via REUTERS

BUDAPEST/BRISTOL (Reuters) - An ebb in support for mainstream parties is raising hopes among Europe's Greens that they could act as kingmakers in the next European Parliament, with growing concerns over climate change likely to hand them their strongest showing yet.

With the centre-left and centre-right bloc set to lose their joint majority in elections across the European Union this week, the Greens hope to increase their influence as parties jostle to create new alliances in the next EU legislature.

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