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A record-high 64.8% of eligible voters in Germany turned out for the European Parliament elections, the highest since reunification, a top official said early Monday. The figure was 3.4 percentage points higher than in 2019, which at the time had been the highest turnout since German reunification in 1990. After tallying all 400 constituencies, the proportion of invalid votes was 0.8%, according to Federal Returning Officer Ruth Brand. The most populous EU country accounts for 96 of the 720 seats in the European Parliament, with around 65 million eligible voters.In Germany’s first post-reunifi…

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