Bloomberg Brexit upended Britain’s established political order in European Parliament elections, with both the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party scoring their worst results in decades. Voters backed politicians with clear pro- and anti-European Union agendas, fuelling demands for a second referendum on one side of the divisive national debate, and a hard, no-deal split from the EU ...

Bloomberg Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is on track to be ousted on Monday after his erstwhile coalition partners in the nationalist Freedom Party lined up behind a motion to dismiss him. The Freedom Party’s acting chairman, Norbert Hofer, told public broadcaster ORF that his group “will probably support” the no-confidence vote against Kurz and his cabinet that was expected to ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner vowed to shake things up in the government but stopped short of threatening to immediately pull out of the alliance after Germany’s Social Democrats suffered a double blow at the polls. SPD leaders pleaded for patience as they analyse the results of the elections, which saw them drop to third behind the Greens ...