ROME – “The constructive pro-European center has held“: the president of the EU Parliament, Roberta Metsola, said this in the evening, speaking in front of journalists. His speech was broadcast live by the Assembly’s media services, including on social networks. Metsola commented on the first results of the European elections by answering a reporter’s question about an advance of right-wing and nationalist forces. On the political level, the president of the EU Parliament refers to the Party group European popular.