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Why European Voters Are Shifting to the Right

Today on the Big Take: The rise of the far right in Europe, and what the outcome of Poland’s recent election says about the continent’s future.

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the Polish presidential runoff election in Warsaw on June 1Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Poland’s election of a Trump-backed conservative nationalist president early this week is part of a larger shift to the right across the European continent: Much like in the US, conservative, nationalist and right-wing parties are gaining traction.