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EU's centrist coalition projected to fall short of a majority

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 819 words · By Luca Bertuzzi
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What to know about Decline of Centrist Politics

A new Europe Elects projection suggests Europe’s mainstream parties could lose their EU-level majority, reflecting the growing strength of right-wing and populist forces.

Claims checked 12
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

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Center83%
Right17%

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What happened

A new Europe Elects projection suggests Europe’s mainstream parties could lose their EU-level majority, reflecting the growing strength of right-wing and populist forces.

Why it matters

The next European Parliament majority may not be a centrist coalition, according to new data.

Common ground

The three parties — the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the centrist Renew Europe, and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) — which have formed a parliamentary majority since its creation would fail to secure one for the first time.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/12/eus-centrist-coalition-might-fall-…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The next European Parliament elections are not due until June 2029”
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Claim 2: “The Greens/EFA group... would be further reduced, losing 14 seats.”
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While the Greens/EFA group is verified as a political entity via Wikipedia, the specific projection of losing 14 seats is not corroborated by the provided evidence snippets, though it appears to be part of the same report as other verified claims.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist, separatist and minority political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full politi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Alliance
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Green Party (EGP), also referred to as European Greens, is a European political party composed of national parties from across Europe who share Green values. The European Greens works clo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Party
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green political parties. The group consists of European Green Party (EGP), part of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greens–European_Free_Alliance
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Claim 3: “The seat projection was published on Wednesday by Europe Elects, an election data platform”
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Web search results confirm that Europe Elects is an election data platform that provides seat projections for the European Parliament.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1989 European Parliament election was held on Wednesday June 15 to Sunday June 18 across the 12 European Union member states. It was the third European Parliament election but the first time that …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_European_Parliament_elect…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union (EU) and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament. Majorities in the Parliam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_Europe…
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Claim 4: “Spain's Popular Party and Poland's Civic Platform would become the largest national delegations, ending the German Christian Democratic Union's decade-long dominance of the group.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the national delegations of the Popular Party, Civic Platform, or the CDU's dominance.
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Claim 5: “The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)... is due to remain largely stable, with three additional MEPs.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the ECR's projected gain of 3 MEPs.
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Claim 6: “Patriots for Europe (PfE)... is projected to gain 12 seats”
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The projection that Patriots for Europe (PfE) would gain 12 seats is explicitly stated in the web search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Patriots for Europe (PfE or Patriots) is a right-wing to far-right sovereigntist political group, formed as the third-largest group ahead of the tenth European Parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_for_Europe
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web search NEUTRAL — Patriots for Europe.Patriots for Europe, PfE) – grupa polityczna w Parlamencie Europejskim, utworzona 8 lipca 2024, złożona z prawicowych i eurosceptycznych partii[3][4].
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrioci_za_Europą
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web search NEUTRAL — Patriots for Europe (PfE), which includes Marine Le Pen's National Rally, is projected to gain 12 seats, driven by Spain's Vox and Austria's Freedom Party.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/eus-centrist-coalition-might-fall-…
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Claim 7: “The 2024 European Parliament elections already saw a significant shift in the political barycentre to the right, with right-of-centre parties gaining almost 60 MEPs”
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The specific phrasing 'significant shift in the political barycentre to the right, with right-of-centre parties gaining almost 60 MEPs' is found directly in the provided web search evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR Group or simply ECR) is a national conservative, soft eurosceptic, and anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Ref…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR Party or simply ECR), formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR, 2009–2016) and Alliance of Conservatives and Refor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Ref…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist, separatist and minority political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full politi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Alliance
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Claim 8: “the hard-right Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group... would gain 19 seats.”
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The existence of the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group is verified via Wikipedia, but the specific projection of gaining 19 seats is not explicitly corroborated in the provided evidence snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Europe of Sovereign Nations (party). European Conservatives and Reformists Group.Their one remaining MEP joined the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_of_Sovereign_Nations_Gr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Europe Elects’ European Parliament projection offers an indication of how voters in the European Union would vote should there be an EU Parliament election today and how this outlook changes on a mont…
https://europeelects.eu/2025/05/31/may-2025/
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web search NEUTRAL — Sovereignty as bedrock. The Europe of Sovereign Nations group firmly opposes an overreaching European Union on the fundamental issue of sovereignty for European nations and peoples.ESN STATUTES. natio…
https://esn-group.eu/
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Claim 9: “The three parties — the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the centrist Renew Europe, and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) — which have formed a parliamentary majority since its creation would fail to secure one for the first time.”
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The claim that the centrist coalition (EPP, S&D, Renew) might fail to secure a majority for the first time is explicitly stated in the web search results. Additionally, the historical context of the EPP and S&D holding a de facto large majority until 2019 is supported by the 'History of the European Parliament' Q&A.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian democratic, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. Founded by primarily Christian-democratic parties in 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_People's_Party
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Patriots for Europe (PfE or Patriots) is a right-wing to far-right sovereigntist political group, formed as the third-largest group ahead of the tenth European Parliament. The group includes MEPs from…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_for_Europe
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Renew Europe (or simply Renew) is a liberal, centrist to centre-right, pro-European political group of the European Parliament founded for the ninth European Parliament term. The group is the successo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renew_Europe
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Claim 10: “The EPP has about 21% support now in Europe.”
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Claim 11: “Europe Elects projects the S&D would suffer the largest loss, shedding 18 MEPs, followed by the EPP with 15 and Renew with nine.”
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The specific projections for S&D (-18), EPP (-15), and Renew (-9) are explicitly mentioned in the web search results attributed to Europe Elects.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Europe of Sovereign Nations Group (ESN; French: L'Europe des Nations Souveraines, ENS; German: Europa der Souveränen Nationen) is a political group in the European Parliament sitting on the far-ri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_of_Sovereign_Nations_Gr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliam…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_of_Social…
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Claim 12: “The far-left group The Left is also projected to gain 19 seats”
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The projection that 'The Left' group would gain 19 seats is explicitly stated in the web search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. A total of 720 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_European_Parliament_elect…
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web search NEUTRAL — The far-left group The Left is also projected to gain 19 seats, driven largely by leftist parties in France and Germany — a sign the political trend favours not just the right, but anti-establishment …
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/eus-centrist-coalition-might-fall-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Europe Elects, a nonpartisan poll aggregator, predicted that the EPP and two right-wing groups would gain 19 seats in total, while the center, center-left groups, and the Greens political group would …
https://anr.news/world-news/what-to-expect-in-european-parli…
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