The Latest | Far-right projected to make big gains as voting wraps on last day of EU elections

A first projection provided by the European Union indicates far-right parties have made big gains at the European Parliament, as voting was wrapping up Sunday on the final day of elections for the next five-year term. In France, President Emanuel Macron said he was calling early legislative elections after his party suffered a heavy defeat from the far-right National Rally party. In Germany, support for Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats sank to a projected 14%, behind the extreme-right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place. Millions of Europeans have been casting their ballots this week for a new European Parliament, the legislative branch of the 27-member trade bloc, in one of the world’s biggest democratic elections.