Voters in 21 of the European Union's 28 nations voted on Sunday, and the far-right and Euroskeptic parties are making huge gains in Britain and France, although the pro-Europe establishment will retain the majority.  But, the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe Front National appears to be winning the most seats in France in a political “earthquake”.

Marine Le Pen, the National Front’s (FN) leader, said: “The people have spoken loud and clear.  They no longer want to be led by those outside our borders, by EU commissioners and technocrats who are unelected.”  She’s calling for the ruling Socialists to step down and call new elections, claiming the government elected in 2012 is now “unrepresentative of the French people”.

The Socialists are dismissing that.  But Prime Minister Manuel Valls admits that the results are “an earthquake”.

Le Pen has for now succeeded on putting a respectable face on the FN, which was considered racist and extreme during the days her father Jean-Marie ran it.  She is not about to risk that by associating with a new entrant into the European Parliament, Greece’s neo-nazi Golden Dawn, which won ten percent. In fact, across Europe, skeptic parties are issuing statements on how they won’t work with each other.  Many are, after all, xenophobes.  Anyway, Greece’s Leftist party Syriza ran on an anti-bail-out ticket, and won the majority of votes.

The Le Pen’s success at home poisoned their Dutch counterpart Geert Wilders whose right-wing Euroskeptic Party for Freedom surprisingly dropped from second to fourth place.  It seems that Jean-Marie’s recent praise for the Ebola virus was too much for Dutch voters to take.

Fresh off a stronger-than-expected showing in local council elections, Britain’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) now tops the results in the EU elections.  While it’s not good news for the established parties, it should be noted that UK voters went for the pro-Europe Labour party locally, and cast protest ballots in the EU elections.  Nuance.

In Denmark, the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party had won its country's EU elections.  Hungary’s ruling right-wing Fidesz party came out on top, but the even further right, fascist Jobbik party came in a close second – the Left was routed.

Germany’s center-right and Center-Left parties scored more than 60 percent.  And the main skeptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) isn’t all that skeptical – it opposes the Euro currency, but not the union.