Political attention ahead of the EU elections has focused on the big political parties – especially with the prospect of right-wing groupings on the rise. But there’s one caucus that’s been growing in recent years, as part of a trend that’s likely to continue – the dozens of homeless MEPs who don’t belong to any political grouping at all. In February 2020, just after UK MEPs left due to Brexit, there were only 28 EU lawmakers sitting as independents, unaffiliated with any of the parliament’s seven organised political parties. Now there are 50 and, according to an Ipsos poll for Euronews, they …