Why drop this news story now with the EU elections?
Hundreds of German soldiers ‘unfit for service’ following missions abroad – report
Published time: 26 May, 2019 17:08
Foreign deployments have seemingly taken a heavy toll on the German Army, which has been already struggling with personnel shortages as hundreds of soldiers return from the missions physically or mentally crippled, a report says.
https://www.rt.com/news/460319-german-soldiers-foreign-missions-traumas/
EU elections over: Exit polls show surge for right-wing & green parties amid high turnout
Published time: 26 May, 2019 21:00
Edited time: 26 May, 2019 21:21
The EU Parliament’s three-day elections have concluded across Europe. The polls attracted a record number of voters, not seen in over two decades, while exit polls signal the expected rise of right-wing parties is accurate.
The turnout for the union-wide elections has become the largest in two decades, with an estimated 51 percent of voters showing up at the polling stations. It's the greatest turnout since 1994, when over 56 percent of Europeans partook in the polls. The previous 2014 elections, on the other hand, showed the lowest-ever turnout at only 42.5 percent.
On an EU scale, the pro-European bloc EPP and the Social-Democratic alliance S&D have apparently retained the largest representation, yet their number of seats is expected to shrink significantly – from 221 and 191 back in 2014 to 177 and 147, respectively.
https://www.rt.com/news/460324-eu-elections-exit-polls/
kek - but 'not wank' still got it wrong
>Williams had been checking the disputed ballots as part of his duties as an election agent, and also found one ballot which had ‘wank’ written in every single box apart from the Green party. The voter left a note saying ‘not wank’ for the environmentalist party which was deemed permissible.