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Our latest national Insight comes from Denmark, where unlike in many other countries, the Social Democrats came out on top. It can be read here.
In the political Groups, the far-left GUE/NGL Group has chosen a leader to succeed French communist stalwart Francis Wurtz, one of the few MEPs who had spent 30 years as a deputy in Brussels and Strasbourg. The new leader is Lothar Bisky, a member of the Left Party in Germany, now the biggest faction in the GUE/NGL. Mr Bisky is currently leader of the Party of the European Left.
The Group’s vice-presidents will be Eva-Britt Svensson (Sweden), Ilda Figueiredo (Portugal), Kartika Liotard (the Netherlands), Takis Hatzigeorgiou (Cyprus) and Miloslav Ransdorf (the Czech Republic).
Meanwhile, there remain tensions in Parliament’s newest Group, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), with a number of British Conservative members (both outgoing and returning) questioning the make-up of the new formation, according to the Daily Telegraph.