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00:00Polls show Europe's far-right parties are struggling to find cohesion ahead of the EU elections.
00:10As the European elections loom, the main concerns for Europeans are the economy and security issues,
00:16as they expect more stability from the upcoming parliament.
00:20Russia hit the city of Dnipro on Tuesday, a key front line between Russian and Ukrainian troops.
00:32Ukraine managed to shoot down two missiles, but debris injured six people, including a one-month-old baby, and damaged homes.
00:42A school was also hit in another Russian strike.
00:47Down south, the Kremlin continued its shelling on Kherson.
00:52Sixteen settlements on the right bank of the region were under fire in the past 48 hours,
00:58and several houses were damaged following a strike on a residential neighbourhood.
01:04Moscow's ground offensive in the north has opened a new front and put more pressure on Ukraine's forces in the south.
01:13The US and Germany recently authorised Kiev to carry limited strikes on Russian territory,
01:20but it's still unclear how effective they will prove.
01:28Slovenia's parliament formally recognising an independent Palestinian state with a majority vote.
01:3652 members voted for the recognition during Tuesday's extraordinary 90-seat parliament session.
01:42No one voted against it.
01:45The vote made Slovenia the latest European country to recognise Palestine after Spain, Ireland and Norway in May.
01:53The latest move is seen as part of a wider effort to coordinate pressure on Israel to end the conflict in Gaza.
02:02A candidate of the far-right German AFD party was stabbed in Germany's southern city of Mannheim.
02:09Heinrich Koch, a candidate in the local elections, allegedly saw an individual tearing up campaign posters and tried to stop him.
02:19The 25-year-old suspect allegedly assaulted him with a cutter.
02:25The victim was not critically injured.
02:29The alleged attacker has been arrested and is said to have psychiatric disorders.
02:4047 million Italians are eligible to vote in the next European elections that will be held next Saturday and Sunday
02:46to choose 76 members of the European Parliament across five main constituencies.
02:51Alongside these, nearly half of Italy's municipalities will go to the ballot for local elections.
02:56With more at stake, this year's vote is crucial.
02:59It will both shape the future of Europe at one of the most critical times in the Union's history
03:04and it will be the first political test for Italy's right-wing government.
03:07Border turnout, which hit a record low of 54% in 2019, has long troubled EU elections in Italy
03:14and a growing disaffection towards European politics has taken a toll.
03:18Besides regular voters, some analysts argue that the election campaign focuses too much on domestic issues
03:24causing some to lose interest.
03:48I don't feel represented in any way.
03:51Then you can be taken by moral conscience and at the end you have to go and vote.
03:56But I don't know.
03:58Let's say I don't feel represented by any of the candidates.
04:02So they talk and talk and then in the end...
04:08Among voters aged below 35 years old, the situation is much more polarised.
04:13Those who said they will go to the polls, they consider the EU elections as important as the general ones.
04:19All European policies look not only at the present but also at the future.
04:24So I think they look more at us young people than at the current citizens
04:28because they are policies that are made specifically to last in time.
04:33So yes, it is certainly important to vote.
04:35The real problem is that politics speaks more to adults than to young people.
04:43And above all, another problem is that there is no minimum clarity on the functioning of institutions.
04:50Latest polls suggest Italy's main opposition party could make some gains
04:54while confirming Maloney's Brothers of Italy as the leading political force.
04:58If confirmed, this could strengthen her power both nationally and in Europe
05:02making her a kingmaker of right-wing parties in the EU.
05:06Giorgia Orlandi for Euronews in Rome.
05:15Europe's ultra-conservative parties are being forced to seek out more moderate political allies
05:21in an attempt to secure enough votes to influence future EU legislation.
05:26According to the Euronews Superpolls,
05:28while the Conservatives are expected to see significant gains in the upcoming elections,
05:33they are still too divided to produce a viable EU Commission leader.
05:39If we think about Giorgia Maloney, for example, the Italian Prime Minister,
05:44we have to understand that when we look at the leadership in the European right,
05:49we have also to see, to take into account that we are talking about leaders
05:54that in some cases are also head of government, so they have different interests.
06:01According to the Euronews Polls Centre's simulations,
06:05if the Conservatives decide to go into coalition,
06:08their best option would be to join up with the Liberals of the Renew Party.
06:12This way, they could match up parliamentary seat distribution
06:15with the Realpolitik of the EU government.
06:18Coalition between the Conservative groups would be difficult
06:21as it would be too weighted towards the right.
06:24There are also many issues the two main far-right parties,
06:27the European Conservatives and Reformists, led by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney,
06:32and the Identity and Democracy Party, led by France's Marine Le Pen, are not united on.
06:39At the moment, the only issue that can create some cohesion within the right
06:43is the struggle against immigration.
06:45But even then, solutions to the matter differ between the southern flank
06:49and the eastern and northern parts of the EU.
06:54But the centre of gravity will certainly move to the right.
06:58And this is something the EPP, which will then be the central player,
07:01will be able to use as a blackmail potential vis-à-vis the Liberals
07:05and the Social Democrats, if not the Agreens.
07:08I don't believe that the EPP is serious about working with identity and a democracy.
07:14That would also be political suicide at the national level.
07:17But they will certainly use it.
07:20According to the Euronews Poll Centre,
07:22Europe's mainstream political parties are likely to face the difficult task
07:27of creating a ruling parliament using votes from the fragmented radical right bloc.
07:36Unraveling the threat of social networks and revealing the real from the fake.
07:40But above all, to detect the manipulation of information.
07:44That's the job of this analyst,
07:46who works discreetly for the Domestic Intelligence Service.
08:07In April, European figures from the conservative right and far-right met in Brussels.
08:12The Foreign Intelligence Service scrutinised the exchanges.
08:43The risk of foreign attempts to manipulate public opinion are high during elections.
08:48In Poland, a special commission has already begun to investigate
08:51Russian and Belarusian influence in the country.
08:58Citizens go to the polls.
09:00The polls are held in the capital of Poland,
09:02in the capital of the Republic of Poland,
09:04in the capital of the Republic of Poland,
09:06in the capital of the Republic of Poland,
09:08in the capital of the Republic of Poland,
09:11Citizens go to the polls during the European elections
09:14with an expectation for change, for improvement.
09:17According to Boyd Wagner, chief analyst of the Euronews Poll Center,
09:22data shows that the main concerns for Europeans are the economy and security issues.
09:27They are expecting more stability from the upcoming parliament.
09:35Number one would be the economy,
09:37would be things like purchasing power and the inflation.
09:40I think secondly the one that is very common across every country is migration,
09:46remains to be an important issue.
09:49The economy, migration and climate policies are some of the top concerns
09:53that people in Brussels have as the EU elections loom.
09:57Climate Change
10:05If you want to do anything about the climate, you have to pay.
10:11So, economically it's important.
10:13It's important that we manage to become climate neutral as the EU
10:18and to find a way to start,
10:24but still be socially acceptable.
10:27We have to make it so that it doesn't mean that only the rich can afford it
10:33and the poor get poorer and poorer.
10:55At the political level, the focus is on competitiveness,
10:59while for European citizens it's about their daily lives
11:02and for some it's two sides of the same coin.
11:06On the other hand, the issues of defense also appears to be a key priority for Brussels.
11:13If politicians worry about competitiveness, this is about the budgets of the states
11:17and the budget of the states is then of course necessarily also translates into the money of the people.
11:23So, there is of course a strong connection.
11:25Now, when it comes to defense, then we see that people also worry about that,
11:30but that very much depends on where they live.
11:33Water expectations vary across member states,
11:36but they all unite in the hope for better management of both present and the future.