One of Ours

The success of a host of euroskeptic and populist parties on both sides of the former Iron Curtain suggests that disillusionment with Brussels has reached a new and more concrete level than before, analysts said Monday.

"These elections have brought to the fore a new political divide in Europe - the pro and anti-European divide, which transcends the traditional left-right gap," said Jean-Philippe Roy, professor of political science at Tours University. "If politicians don't take this new phenomenon into account the disconnect between them and the voters will grow ever wider."

The most resounding triumph came in Britain, where the U.K. Independence Party, which is calling for the country's withdrawal from the European Union altogether, won 17 percent of the national vote and 12 seats in the European Parliament, four times as many as in the last election five years ago...