Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on the final day of voting for the European parliamentary elections to choose their representatives for the next five-year term. Polls opened in 20 EU countries early Sunday for the June 6-9 elections for a new European Parliament, the legislative branch of the 27-member bloc.
An election commission worker prepares a polling station in Bankya, on the outskirts of Sofia, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Voters in Bulgaria are going to the polls on Sunday in national and Europe an elections that have been overshadowed by political instability, economic inequality and growing concern over the war in nearby Ukraine.
The war just across the border in Ukraine has created fears that if Russia were to prevail, Poland and neighboring nations that were once under Moscow’s control could be targeted next. On the minds of some Poles is the nature of the EU itself. In a nation under foreign rule for long spans in the past, some Poles fear that the 27-member bloc is taking away too much power from individual nations.
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