European Union

The national conservative Freedom Party (FPÖ) is challenging the close results of Austria's presidential election in court. On Tuesday the party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache filed a 150-page document with the country's constitutional court listing irregularities in the election. With this move the FPÖ has once again successfully cast itself as the victim, some commentators object. Others take a positive view of the probe.

The Euro 2016 European football championship kicks off on Friday. A security force of 90,000 police, soldiers and private security agents will be deployed to ensure safety at the event. Never before has there been such a focus on security at a football championship. The press also hopes the matches will play out without incident - not least because this would calm tensions in the host country.

The Swiss have clearly rejected the universal basic income in a referendum: around 77 percent opposed it while 23 percent voted for the initiative. Commentators argue that now would have been the right time to ensure that people have an income that covers their basic needs.

At least eleven people were killed on Tuesday in the third major terrorist attack to hit Istanbul within the last six months. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed the PKK for the bombing but ultimately it is he who is responsible for the wave of terror in Turkey, commentators point out.

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Pesce and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
The Commission may require Member States to remove all plants capable of being infected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium, even when there are no symptoms of infection, when such plants are in the vicinity of plants already affected by that bacterium

Pesce and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
The Commission may require Member States to remove all plants capable of being infected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium, even when there are no symptoms of infection, when such plants are in the vicinity of plants already affected by that bacterium