Hundreds of millions of people across the 27 countries of the European Union are set to cast their vote in the European Parliament elections starting in a week’s time. Here are the top issues influencing voters’ decisions as they head to the polls. The Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin demolished the post-Cold War security consensus in Europe with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In response to the invasion, the EU and the West imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia and mobilized billions of euros of financial and military aid for Ukraine….