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If European values ​​are subjected to pressure in individual member states, this must be resolved in dialogue between member states and EU institutions, German head of diplomacy, Heiko Maas, said ahead of his second visit to Poland in an interview with EURACTIV Poland's media partner Gazeta Wyborcza.

Greece will now be “a normal country” but the reforms and the ambitious fiscal targets agreed with its lenders must be respected,  the Commissioner for economic affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said on Monday, the day the Hellenic nation exited its bailout programme.

"Poland sets the standards, ideas and proposals that are copied by the whole of Europe," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during an election campaign event for the local elections which are scheduled for 21 October. EURACTIV Poland reports.

Austria's Federal Economic Chamber represents the interests of the country's economic operators but is also a cornerstone of the social partnership enshrined in the constitution.  Its president, Harald Mahrer, spoke to EURACTIV Germany about Austria's economic goals in a changing global economy.

For the first time since the start of the Ukraine crisis German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks. At Meseberg castle outside Berlin they discussed Syria, Ukraine and Nord Stream 2 for over three hours. Details about any agreements have not yet been disclosed. What interests were Merkel and Putin pursuing at their meeting?

Russian President Putin spent around 90 minutes at the wedding party of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl on Saturday. The invitation was harshly criticised by politicians and media at home and abroad. But there are also those who praise the Russian leader's performance at the wedding.

The loan programmes of the euro bailout fund the ESM come to an end this Monday, meaning that for the first time in eight years Greece will have to finance itself on the markets from today. The country's economic data has improved of late but one in five of its inhabitants is still unemployed and the national debt is still 180 percent of its GDP. Has Greece really been saved?

The Hungarians commemorate today the founding of the Hungarian state by King Stephen I, who was canonised on 20 August 1083. He was the first Christian king of the Hungarians and his crown is featured on the country's national coat of arms. Hungarian commentators take widely diverging views of the significance of this day.