Stacks of ballot papers sit on a table during the count of the Dublin Constituency for the European Parliamentary elections at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland.
The votes have been counted in Europe and the results are in. As expected, the European Parliament elections , which ran from May 23 to 26, resulted in a fragmented legislature; the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and the center-right Socialists and Democrats (S&D) lost ground to emerging forces, including the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the Greens and the Euroskeptic Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF). Here are the main takeaways of the vote: A More Fragmented Parliament For decades, the EPP and the S&D controlled a joint majority of seats in the European Parliament, which meant that an agreement between them was all it took to pass legislation. That will no longer be the case in the next legislature because the EPP and the S&D will have to canvass smaller parties to pass legislation .
