European Elections: Voters Reject Left-wing Open Borders, Climate Change Policies

Right-wing parties made big gains in the European Parliament elections especially in Germany and France, where voters largely reject socialism and left-wing policies. Populist, nationalist and Eurosceptic parties made significant gains, and the Green parties suffered huge losses, a rebuke to open borders and alarmist global warming policies pushed by the left.

In France, the National Rally's decisive win sent a clear message to President Emmanuel Macron who responded by calling a snap parliamentary election. He announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, with new elections set to be held on June 30.

In Italy, Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy party got 28% of the votes, boosting her position at home and arguably making her one of the strongest leaders in Europe.

In Germany, the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) pushed the Chancellor's socialists into third place, stealing more than half a million votes from them.

Far-left activists' response to the results of the elections? Riots.

French police across the country launched tear gas at far-left rioters across France who lit fires, destroyed properties and fired projectiles at officers.

Political observers say the results should put United States left-wing President Joe Biden's administration on notice; he's facing against former President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential elections in November.

Both European and American voters largely care about the same issues, namely mass migration and border security, observers say, and the EU elections showed voters taking a stand against left-wing agendas that have come to rise on both sides of the Atlantic. 

"Firstly, the elections were a political earthquake in Europe," Dr. Nile Gardiner, director of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News. "They were a massive rejection of open borders, mass migration, the far left, green agenda that is being pushed by many European governments. It was also a statement against a growing centralization also of the European Union. And it was an emphatic, euroskeptic, vote in many, many European countries. And so, voters across Europe rejected the ruling socialist or progressive liberal elites from Germany to France to Spain … to Belgium, to the Netherlands. And so this was one of the most significant electoral outcomes in recent European history." 

"I think the Biden White House should be very nervous about what's happening across the Atlantic because Europeans are voting on exactly the same issues American voters are voting on as well," Gardiner added.