Right-Wing Surge in European Elections Threatens Ukraine’s Western Path

In Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, pro-European candidates swept the balloting. But in Europe that day, voters flocked to parties that want to close Europe’s doors.   The strong right-wing showing in the recent European Parliament elections may claim an unexpected victim: Ukraine and its European ambitions.   Almost one-third of the members who will sit in the Brussels-based parliament until the end of this decade come from parties hostile to the European Union and...

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