cyprus and luxembourg six each. remember, they don t sit according to nationality, they sit within broad international groupings. there are seven groupings in all the left, the greens, the socialists & democrats, renew europe. renew europe is the liberals. then comes the biggest group of them all the centre right european people s party, to the right of them the european conservatives and reformists, and then on the hard right, the identity and democracy group, in which marine le pen s meps will sit. so, let me show you the first projection issued in the last half an hour. you will see there the big gainers are definitely the hard right. it is only an early projection, this, but the losers on this chart very much the losers on this chart very much the greens and the liberals, which include emmanuel macron s renaissance party. neck, when you look at that chart, what do you see and what are the implications of it? i what do you see and what are the implications of it? what
of the european parliament. to hear more, let s go to christian fraser, whojoins us live from brussels. this is the second biggest election in the after india? it does put it into some perspective. we will all be focusing on america in november, 240 million voters there. we are in the european parliament, above the hemicycle where the politicians normally sit. you can see behind me a huge screen where we will start to get the first exit polls. i told you that has been a shift to the right. we are starting to see that some of the first exit polls. let s concentrate on some that reflect that trend. germany, the cdu gaining six seats in these exit polls. but the hard right, the afd, finishing second with 17 seats. the spd of 0laf scholz finishing third on a record low i4%. the greens at nearly cut in half in germany. tears in the room next door, where the greens are having an election party of sorts. in the netherlands, gate of elders party had no seat in 2019, they gained seven
pubs need to get a special licence, which takes five working days. since england only won their semi on wednesday, there was never going to be enough time for that to happen. parliament could give blanket permission, but they re on summer break. meaning it s now down to local councils to approve temporary licences on a case by case basis and in record time. so what do pubs without permission do? they can open for coffee, for breakfast, for bacon sarnies. so you can come along to pubs, bars, get in the spirit and in the mood in advance. have a morning coffee, come and watch the match and then have a drink to celebrate when, hopefully, the women do win the world cup and take it home. as the cliche goes, on sunday, the lionesses will be hoping to bring football home. millions of their fans will be hoping they can watch them do that down the pub.