"Never, since the Second World War, has Europe been as essential. Yet never has Europe been in so much danger."

Estonians head to the polls on Sunday with incumbent center-left Prime Minister Juri Ratas the frontrunner, although he would face a difficult task forging a parliament majority due to expected far-right gains.

"Bad politics brought us were we are," says Colombe the co-founder of Volt - a pan-European party hoping to win at least 25 seats across seven EU countries in May's elections. We met three of the members, who met as students, in Brussels this week.

The Italian far right the League’s is expected have the biggest increase of its MEPs, followed by 5 Star movement, the French National Rally, the Hungarian Fidesz and AFD in Germany. And EU-US ties remain strained.

Dominant groups on centre left and centre right will be hit as new movements gain ground, according to EU Parliament projections.

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The study warned that if these parties do gain more seats in the European Parliament, their ideas could shape European policy in the medium-term, and "paralyse decision-making" in the long term.

"The party was founded with my full support and with the intention of fighting the European elections on May 23 if Brexit has not been delivered by then," said Nigel Farage.

The Hungarian government wants the EC Vice-President responsible for applying rule of law policies to step down from his position during the upcoming EP elections.