EU Skeptic Election Surge Set to Rattle Leaders at Home
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The European Parliament’s get-out-the-vote effort for this week’s election proclaims: “This time it’s different.”
The balloting, which runs from today through Sunday, will probably be different for the wrong reasons. Galvanized by the debt crisis and the European Union’s 10.5 percent unemployment rate, protest parties are set to surge in Greece, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, the U.K. and elsewhere -- making it harder to steer the 28-nation bloc.