The Latest on the European Parliament elections taking place Saturday (all times local):
10:15 a.m.
A far-right party in Slovakia that openly admires the country's wartime Nazi puppet state could win seats in the European Parliament for the first time.
A woman runs her hand through her hair, backdropped by a European Union flag, during a 2020 USR PLUS alliance European Parliament elections rally, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 24, 2019. Romanians will vote on Sunday, May 26, in the European Parliament elections. (AP PhotoVadim Ghirda)
Slovaks are among four countries voting Saturday in the Europe-wide vote, which finishes Sunday.
Polls favor the leftist Smer-Social Democracy party, the senior member of Slovakia's current coalition government to win the most votes.
Polls suggest People's Party Our Slovakia, a far-right party that has 14 seats in Slovakia's parliament, will win seats in the European legislature for the first time.
Manfred Weber, leading candidate of the EPP in the 2019 European elections, speaks during the closing rally of the EPP, CDU and CSU parties for European elections in Munich, Germany Friday May 24, 2019. (Sven Hoppedpa via AP)
Party members use Nazi salutes, blame Roma for crime, consider NATO a terror group and want the country out of the alliance and the European Union.
The election reflects a continental struggle between nationalists who want to wrest power back from the EU and moderates who want to make the EU stronger.
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Five-Star Movement leader and Italian Deputy-Premier Luigi Di Maio addresses a rally ahead of Sunday's European Elections, in Rome, Friday, May 24, 2019. Some 400 million Europeans from 28 countries head to the polls from Thursday to Sunday to choose their representatives at the European Parliament for the next five years. (AP PhotoAndrew Medichini)
Voters in Slovakia, Malta, Latvia and the Czech Republic are casting ballots in European Parliament elections.
The stakes for the European Union are especially high in this year's elections, which are taking place over four days and involve all 28 EU nations.
Many predict nationalists and far-right groups will gain ground. They would try to use a larger presence in the legislature to claw back power from the EU for their national governments.
More moderate parties want to cement closer ties among countries in the EU.
Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands have already voted. The Czech Republic started voting Friday and continues Saturday. Slovakia, Malta and Latvia are holding their European Parliament elections Saturday — and all the other nations vote Sunday.
Results are expected Sunday night.