Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In lots of places, shopping centers and high streets aren't the vibrant scene they once were.

Online shopping has chipped away at foot traffic and the value of commercial premises.

But many tech firms still need real estate, and the investors providing it are increasingly a hot property.

For a while there, quinoa was the must-have grain,

an exotic South American import

with serious health credentials.

But then, the quinoa bubble burst.

Now it's making a comeback,

in part on American farms.

You'll soon see more of it in processed foods.

But first...

The second largest democratic exercise in the world has concluded.

Votes in the European parliamentary election have been counted,

and the union's legislature is set for a bit of a shake-up.

My colleague Anne McElvoy has been digging into the numbers.

Over the last few days, voters across Europe have been at the polls, with elections across 28 countries.

They determine the makeup of the European Parliament, and they'll help shape the continent's

politics for the next five years.

Now all the results are in, and in Britain it was Nigel Farage's Brexit party that topped

the polls.

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