Final votes cast as Europe chooses future course - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

France is among the 21 countries voting Sunday in the European elections as nationalist right and pro-EU forces battle to chart a course for the bloc

Eurosceptic parties opposed to the project of ever closer union hope to capture as many as a third of the seats in the 751-member Strasbourg assembly, disrupting the pro-integration consensus. Meanwhile, the mainstream parties are vying between themselves for influence over the choice of a new generation of top European officials, including the powerful president of the European Commission.

“We see that extremists are mobilising, we see a lot their billboards and activities all over Slovakia. We can’t let someone steal Europe from us. It’s our Europe,” Kiska told reporters.In the Netherlands, the centre-left party of EU vice president Frans Timmermans won the most votes and added two seats to the Socialists and Democrats bloc in parliament, according to exit polls.

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