Your time is up, Italy's hard-right leader tells EU center parties as she votes in European election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The bloc's premier hard-right politician threw down the gauntlet to the traditional center parties, telling them their time to run the EU as they liked was up.
56% : EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who hopes to use Sunday's results as a launchpad for a second term at the head of the EU, has especially been stressing the respect for the rule of law as a quintessential requirement for those seeking power.
49% : In Malta, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, Von der Leyen's ally in the Christian Democrat center-right European People's Party, proudly proclaimed "Duty done" and urged EU citizens to go vote, "or others will decide for you."
47% : The result could expand Meloni's influence in the EU, as Von der Leyen has not ruled out a coalition with her group.
45% : The whole EU campaign has been cast in the light of the center and left forces seeking to hold off a surge of the far right and a fight between those who seek closer EU unity with greater powers against those like Fico, Meloni and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who seek to swing the pendulum back to the member states.
38% : He also opposes EU sanctions on Russia and wants to block Ukraine from joining NATO.

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