Daily Mail: Battering for mainstream parties across Europe as Marine Le Pen's party calls for 'powerful' group of far-right parties to join forces in EU Parliament - despite gains for pro-EU Greens
* Centrist and ruling parties suffered heavy losses across much of Europe as EU Parliament results confirmed
* Voters elected anti-EU and anti-immigration parties in record numbers, with Marine Le Pen winning in France
* Conversely, left wing and Green parties surged, with Merkel's CDU losing to them rather than right-wingers
* Despite anti-EU gains, the legislature is still controlled by a two-thirds majority of Pro-EU parties
* Ms Le Pen's National Rally party came just ahead of Emmanuel Macron's En Marche in French vote
* Her party toasted 'emergence of new forces' that 'open the way for formation of a powerful group' in Brussels
* Spain bucked the trend with ruling Socialists on top but Greek PM called a snap General Election after losses
* Italy's Matteo Salvini told supporters 'A new Europe is born', while Silvio Berlusconi was re-elected at 82
* Turnout across the continent is the highest in 25 years - up by around eight percent on 201
Far-right and Eurosceptic parties have won more European Parliament seats than ever before after voters across the continent left their nations' rulers with bloody noses.
Conversely, left wing and pro-EU Green parties also surged amid the highest turnout in 25 years as the 40-year majority held by the two largest centre-right and centre-left groups of parties was broken.
Marine Le Pen's National Rally inflicted a painful defeat - but not a knock-out blow - on pro-European French president Emmanuel Macron before her party called for a 'powerful' group of far-right parties to join forces in the EU Parliament.
In Italy, the League party of hard-line Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, was one of the biggest winners in the European elections, with soaring support that bolsters his role as the flagbearer of the nationalist and far-right forces in Europe and could also shake up politics at home.
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