A man looks at the ballot papers before casting his vote in the local and European elections at the Deaf Village in Dublin, Ireland, Friday June 7, 2024. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)
An election poster of Germany's Free Democratic Party's top candidate Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. In background "the hammering man" a statue by US artist Jonathan Borofsky. Letters read "spine: from now on EU norm". (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Paolo Damilano speaks at the closing of his election campaign at the electoral committee headquarters in Piazza Carlo Felice in Turin, Italy, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (Giacomo Longo/LaPresse via AP)
A woman walks past campaign posters for the upcoming European election in Colombes, west of Paris, Thursday, June 6, 2024. The European Election will take place on June 9. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
FILE - The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, left, and Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, address the media during a joint press conference on Sept. 17, 2023. It seemed like a throwaway line by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, yet it encapsulated what is at stake for many in this week's European Union parliamentary elections — What to do with the hard right? And should it be trusted? (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
FILE - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, speaks with Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni during a round table meeting at an EU Summit in Brussels, on March 21, 2024. It seemed like a throwaway line by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, yet it encapsulated what is at stake for many in this week's European Union parliamentary elections — What to do with the hard right? And should it be trusted? (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
President of Republic of Ireland Michael D Higgins casts his vote in the local and European elections at St Mary's Hospital in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, Friday June 7, 2024. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)
FILE - Leader of the French far-right National Rally Marine Le Pen, left and lead candidate of the party for the upcoming European election Jordan Bardella during a political meeting on June 2, 2024 in Paris. It seemed like a throwaway line by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, yet it encapsulated what is at stake for many in this week's European Union parliamentary elections — What to do with the hard right? And should it be trusted? (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
A picture of the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, with red eyes, is displayed on a European election campaign billboard of a minor Portuguese populist party, in Lisbon, Thursday, June 6, 2024. The National Democratic Alternative, ADN, has so far failed to elect any member of parliament in Portugal. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)