Despite a surge on the radical right, the pro-European parties are likely to retain a majority at the polls from 6 to 9 June. Nevertheless, writes Pascale Joannin, General Manager of the Robert Schuman Foundation, "whatever their political hue", the representatives chosen "will have to commit to the progress of Europe and continue its construction, successfully begun seventy-four years ago. And not, out of anger or frustration, indulge in an experiment they might bitterly regret." |