LONDON -- This weekend the European Union faces its five-year parliamentary makeover as voters across an enlarged union go to the polls. Results will be shaped by three impulses:
The tendency to deliver a verdict on government by punishing those in power in proportion to their longevity.
A continued fracturing of political alignments, electoral disengagement and the growth of personality politics.
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