Election law causes headache for parliament

Although partial European election results will be available from Thursday 10 June, the European Parliament will only publish these three days later - in order to avoid a legal conflict with the European Commission.

Partial results from the Netherlands - counting 95 percent of the final votes - will already be available on 10 June, but the European Election Law prohibits the Parliament secretariat from publishing these before the last ballot has closed in the EU - on 13 June at 22.00.<...