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    Euro elections: Incumbents do well if they’re conservative

    I have no elaborate theory that explains why incumbent parties did well in the weekend’s elections to the European Parliament, as long as they were centre-right incumbent parties. UMP in France, CDU in Germany, Civic Platform in Poland: a good night. Spanish Socialists, the Gordon Brown rump in Britain: Not so good. It really is a pretty robust trend across the continent, as Le Monde‘s nifty map shows.