As was widely presumed, Europeans were in a mood for change and shifted to the right in European Parliamentary elections this past weekend. Voters decided they had had enough of uncontrolled immigration, lack of public safety and slow economies, possibly setting a radically new direction for the European Union over the next five years.

In Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholtz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party was left in third place, among German parties, behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in first place. More embarrassingly, the far-right Alternative for Germany finished second. In Italy, voters decided that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s centre-right party, the Brothers of Italy, are not, in fact, the fascist radicals they had been derided as when she came to power and reinforced her mandate. Spain too veered right.