The far-right head of Italy's anti-immigration League party cites common values with populist leaders in US, Israel, Brazil, Poland and Hungary

Picture of a fractured assembly for next five years completed as many turn backs on centrist parties in favor of factions led by populists Salvini, Le Pen and Farage

Highest voter turnout in 20 years registered during four-day elections in 28 countries for 751-seat European Parliament

Euroskeptic populists, who want to slash immigration and return power to national governments, expected to make gains, but mainstream parties tipped to hold onto power

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, whose League party leads in EU parliament elections, accused of tolerating -- and even encouraging -- neo-fascist politics

With starkly different visions for bloc's future, parties across the continent vie for the votes of 400 million people, in the most hotly anticipated such vote in recent memory

Italy's interior minister positions himself at forefront of movements campaigning under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner

As leaders of several European nationalist factions rally in Milan, Italy's Salvini rejects 'far-right' label

Polish-born 89-year-old poet Halina Birenbaum greeted by a standing ovation at Turin event after her campaign to boycott compelled organizers to exclude far-right publishing house

Populist parties expecting major gains in upcoming EU parliament vote, amid sharp rise of anti-migrant and anti-European Union movements across the continent