Voters punished governments who supported the U.S.-led war on Iraq, painful economic reforms, and in the former communist Eastern Europe they showed no sympathy for leaders who had guided them into the EU on 1 May.
Turnout was estimated to have slumped to less than 45 percent of the 350 million voters in the bloc's 25 member states -- the lowest since the first elections to the assembly in 1979.
The pan-national polls climaxed on the fourth and final day yesterday with voting in 19 states after elections over the three previous days in other EU nations.
In Britain, the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party made a breakthrough by taking 12 seats.
Ruling parties won the elections in Spain, Greece, and Slovakia.
(compiled from wire reports)
Turnout was estimated to have slumped to less than 45 percent of the 350 million voters in the bloc's 25 member states -- the lowest since the first elections to the assembly in 1979.
The pan-national polls climaxed on the fourth and final day yesterday with voting in 19 states after elections over the three previous days in other EU nations.
In Britain, the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party made a breakthrough by taking 12 seats.
Ruling parties won the elections in Spain, Greece, and Slovakia.
(compiled from wire reports)