The recent elections for the European Union Parliament showed significant wins for conservative parties in several countries—as some of us had predicted. One thing those parties have in common is their opposition to mass illegal migration, and experts believe this is a sign that voters throughout Europe are beginning to reject the open-borders mindset—and many other failed parts of the globalist liberal agenda—that have pervaded the continent for decades.

Conservatives from Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, and Italy gained seats in the European Parliament.

In Belgium’s case, it caused the prime minister to resign.

For decades, “Germany’s socialist-green coalition has been one of the great promoters of the EU’s current governance model of environmentalism, globalism, and uncontrolled immigration,” the National Review wrote. In Sunday’s EU elections, the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party won even more seats in the European Parliament, ascending to second place for the number of seats held within the German delegation, beating the current German chancellor’s own Social Democratic Party, which is part of the socialist-green coalition governing Germany.

In France, President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party got only half the vote of Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally Party. In response, Macron called a snap election for the French Parliament in a few weeks. The National Rally Party has gained support over time under Le Pen, daughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, and boy-wonder Jordan Bardella by distancing itself from antisemitism and other historical baggage and by reaching out to young voters. Bardella, not yet 30, grew up in working-class Paris, has charisma, and uses social media with skill.

The Heritage Foundation’s Nile Gardiner saw Sunday’s results as “a firm rejection of socialist ruling elites.” Gardiner told The Daily Signal that immigration is “probably the most important issue for European voters.” He believes “European voters emphatically rejected … the open borders mindset that has been dominant in Europe for so many decades.” Voters were also concerned about crime and “the Islamification of Europe,” Gardiner added.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker, EU voters have “had enough of the bipartisan........

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