The GERB party of former prime minister Boyko Borissov (EPP) won convincingly the country’s early parliamentary elections and the European vote but the country registered its second lowest-ever turnout of 31.8%. 

Liberal opposition party Progressive Slovakia (PS/Renew) emerged victorious in the European elections in Slovakia with 27.8% of the vote and six seats, beating Robert Fico’s Smer-SD (NI), initially seen as the frontrunner, which secured 24.8% of the vote and five seats. 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party came out on top in the European elections in Hungary on Sunday, the party's weakest ever EU election result, as the opposition made gains.

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO, EPP) scored 37.4% in the European elections in Poland on Sunday the vote, with Law & Justice (PiS, ECR) trailing close behind with 35.7%, meaning both are expected to send 20 MEPs to Brussels.

The Partido Popular (PP/EPP), the main opposition party, received the most votes, 34.19% of the ballots cast, giving them 22 seats, while the socialist party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) came second with 30.18%, 20 seats, and the far-right VOX party, third with 9.62%, six seats.

A 25-year-old independent candidate who became known as an influencer on YouTube and TikTok was the big surprise of the EU elections in Cyprus as he managed to rank third and become elected as an MEP.

US President Joe Biden said on Sunday (9 June) he had reached an agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron on the use of profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.

Greece’s centre-right ruling New Democracy party (EPP) won the elections but lost more than one million votes compared to the national elections last year, while the opposition could not catch up.

The Portuguese centre-right party (S&D) and the Liberal party (Renew) were the winners of Sunday's European elections in Portugal, which, unlike most other EU countries, saw the defeat of the far-right Chega party (ID). 

A few hours after French President Emmanuel Macron called for snap elections in France, his Renew Europe colleague Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced that her government would not fall as a result of the EU election results and the loss of a key MEP in her Reform Party (RE).

Unlike in other European countries like France, Austria, and Germany, where the sweeping gains of far-right parties shook the grounds of incumbent governments, Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni remained comfortably in the driver’s seat - with Fratelli d’Italia (ECR) bagging 28.87% of the votes as of 06:15 CET, when over 95% of the ballots had been screened.

Denmark's centrist government was put to the test during the EU elections, facing voters for the first time since national polls at the end of 2022.

The ruling centre-right coalition Jaunā Vienotība (JV/EPP) won Latvia's elections with 25.7% of the vote, followed by the opposition Nacionālā Apvienība (NA/ECR) with 22.08%, securing two MEP seats each for the EPP and ECR groups in the European Parliament, provisional results of Saturday's vote that the Central Election Commission announced on Sunday read. 

The ruling Homeland Union-Christian Democrats of Lithuania (EPP) has won the EU elections, securing three seats in the European Parliament with 21.3% of the vote, while the centre-left Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (S&D), which led pre-election polls, came in second with 18% of the vote and two of Lithuania's 11 seats, according to the country’s Central Election Commission (VRK).

Russian forces appear to be making headway towards their longstanding goal of capturing the strategic Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, according to reports on Sunday (10 June) from both sides of the more than two-year-old conflict.

The Swedish Greens have unexpectedly come out ahead of the Sweden Democrats (SD, ECR), and the ruling Liberals have narrowly avoided being thrown out of the European Parliament, according to provisional results published by the Swedish government.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo celebrated victory amid a record voter turnout in the European elections on Sunday, with the expected far-right surge failing to materialise.

Counting for the European elections in Ireland ended on Sunday evening with no candidates confirmed as elected.

The Eurosceptic parties Vlaams Belang and N-VA have won around a third of the vote in the European elections with around 14% each, giving the far-right ID and ECR a combined six seats out of Belgium’s 22 in the European Parliament.