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In this photo taken on Sunday April 28, 2019, Jan Zahradil, the leader of Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe, answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Prague, Czech Republic. Zahradil is hoping that voters embrace the idea of a scaled-down European Union. Zahradil is a moderate critic of the bloc, not a firebrand like French euroskeptic Marine Le Pen, and he is campaigning for a more flexible EU. Zahradil has told The Associated Press in a recent interview that “we want the European Union to simply do less and to do it better.” (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

AP Interview: EU elections could be boon for conservatives

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Youngsters play basketball in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Europeans from 28 countries will head to the polls May 23-26 to choose lawmakers to represent them at the European Parliament for the next five years. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Migration and Trump on the menu as EU candidates face off

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Trucks travel along Sofia's ring-road on Monday, May 13, 2019. The future of Bulgaria’s vast number of low-wage truck drivers has become a top campaign issue in the country heading into European Parliament elections, with debates raging on how new EU rules could threaten the workers and deepen divisions between rich and poor nations in the bloc. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Truck drivers become key EU election issue in Bulgaria

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, April 7, 2018, file photo, a man walks by an anti-migration billboard from the Hungarian government, on a street in Budapest, Hungary. With a campaign centered on stopping immigration, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party is expected to continue its dominance in the European Parliament election at the end of May. While Hungary has been practically closed to immigrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa since Prime Minister Viktor Orban had border fences built in 2015, he continues to warn voters about the threat of a “migrant invasion” that would put at risk Europe’s Christian culture. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Hungary stems migrant flow, but issue remains big in EU vote

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

European Union leaders pose for a group photo at an EU summit in Sibiu, Romania, Thursday, May 9, 2019. European Union leaders on Thursday start to set out a course for increased political cooperation in the wake of the impending departure of the United Kingdom from the bloc. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

EU elections primer: How they work, what could happen

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

UK opposition campaigns, govt lies low, in EU election

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi speaks to reporters as he leaves the San Raffaele hospital where he underwent laparoscopic surgery for an intestinal obstruction last week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, May 6, 2019. Berlusconi himself is running for European Parliament elections, the first time he has been allowed to run for public office following a ban imposed after a 2012 tax fraud conviction (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italy’s Berlusconi picks up EU campaign outside hospital

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

People stand outside Milan's San Raffaele hospital where former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Berlusconi is in the hospital suffering from renal colic on the day he planned to present his candidates for European Parliament elections.(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Berlusconi a no-show at EU election event due to renal colic

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Protestor flags fly opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, April 11, 2019. European Union leaders on Thursday offered Britain an extension to Brexit that would allow the country to delay its EU departure date until Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

What Next? EU gives UK an extension but impasse remains

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron,left, greets British Prime Minister Theresa May before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris Tuesday, April 9, 2019. A top official at the French presidency says France doesn't rule out granting a further delay to Brexit, just before a planned meeting between Prime minister Theresa May and President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The Latest: EU, UK agree to delay Brexit until Halloween

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Italian Interior Minister and Vice Premier Matteo Salvini answers reporters during a media conference at the G7 Interior Ministers meeting in Paris, Friday, April 5, 2019. The world's security challenges are on the top of the agenda of foreign and interior ministers of the Group of Seven countries who are gathering in France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Euroskeptic, populist parties form alliance in Europe

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A pro EU protestor waves flags opposite the House of Parliament in London, Thursday, April 4, 2019. Meetings are planned Thursday between the British government and the opposition Labour Party in an urgent search for a compromise solution to the country's departure from the European Union. The upper House of Lords is also set to consider legislation that would force Prime Minister Theresa May to seek a delay from the EU. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

The Latest: Labour rues lack of progress in Brexit talks

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers in the House of Commons, London, Friday March 29, 2019. U.K. lawmakers on Friday rejected the government's Brexit divorce deal with the European Union for a third time. (Mark Duffy/House of Commons via AP)

The Latest: EU official: Hard Brexit ‘nearly inevitable’

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EU lawmakers back wide ban on disposable plastic products

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech about the Brexit ahead of a meeting of the European council, at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The Latest: Dutch PM: Britain could walk out without deal

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Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters, take part in a protest outside the House of Parliament in London, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Prime Minister Theresa May's mission to secure Britain's orderly exit from the European Union appeared headed for defeat Tuesday, as lawmakers ignored her entreaties to support her divorce deal and end the political chaos and economic uncertainty that Brexit has unleashed.(AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

The Latest: EU official says ‘no-deal’ vote wont halt Brexit

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British Prime Minister Theresa May, background, is welcomed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Strasbourg, France, Monday, March 11, 2019. May flew to Strasbourg, France, late Monday to try to secure a last-minute deal with the bloc. (Vincent Kessler/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: EU chief says new Brexit deal is ‘best possible’

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A poster from a Hungarian government campaign showing EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros with the caption &quot;You, too, have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do&quot; is displayed on a phone booth in Budapest, March 4, 2019. Hungarian officials said the campaign claiming that EU leaders like Juncker, backed by Soros, want to bring mass migration into Europe, would end by March 15. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi)

Hungarian leader may turn to Polish party in EU Parliament

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A man walks past European Union flags outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Britain's chief law officer says Brexit negotiations with the European Union will continue through the weekend, as the U.K. scrambles to secure changes to the EU divorce deal before a vote in Britain's Parliament next week. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: EU Parliament’s Brexit chief against long delay

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EU takes step toward nixing summer-wintertime clock change

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