European voters reject socialism, far-left policies in EU Parliament elections: 'Political earthquake'

The results of the European Parliament elections saw voters – in Germany and France, especially – largely reject socialism and left-wing policies.

Experts who weighed in on the election told Fox News Digital the results should put President Biden's administration on notice. Both European and American voters largely care about the same issues, namely mass migration and border security, they said, and the EU elections showed voters taking a stand against leftist agendas that have come to rise on both sides of the Atlantic.

"Firstly, the elections were a political earthquake in Europe," Dr. Nile Gardiner, director of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News Digital. "They were a massive rejection of open borders, mass migration, the far left, green agenda that is being pushed by many European governments. It was also a statement against a growing centralization also of the European Union. And it was an emphatic, euroskeptic, vote in many, many European countries. And so, voters across Europe rejected the ruling socialist or progressive liberal elites from Germany to France to Spain … to Belgium, to the Netherlands. And so this was one of the most significant electoral outcomes in recent European history."

"I think the Biden White House should be very nervous about what's happening across the Atlantic because Europeans are voting on exactly the same issues American voters are voting on as well. The biggest single issue in Europe right now is mass migration and the lack of border security. It's the number one issue in America," Gardiner said. "What you saw in Europe is an effective rejection of liberal left-wing ruling elites, exemplified, of course, by the Biden