European Union

The EU-Japan summit due on Wednesday in Brussels to sign a free trade agreement will take place next week in Tokyo, the European Commission announced on Monday. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe cancelled his trip to Europe after mass flooding left at least 100 people dead in Japan in recent days.

Last week the US imposed billions of dollars in punitive tariffs on Chinese goods and China retaliated with similar measures. No one will emerge victorious from this war, commentators predict, and call for an overhaul of the entire global trade system.

The British cabinet has agreed on a plan for the Brexit negotiations. Prime Minister Theresa May may achieve her goal of pushing through a free trade zone with the EU. Brexit secretary David Davis, a proponent of a hard Brexit, has resigned. Some journalists find the government's soft Brexit approach outrageous. Others believe the final word hasn't been spoken yet.

Rainbow colours, imaginative costumes, music and hundreds of thousands of people on the streets: gay pride parades organised by the LGBT movement were held in many European cities on the past weekend. The press review presents voices from the events in Budapest, Madrid and the Polish pilgrimage site Częstochowa.

Commentators are thrilled but not surprised that with Belgium, England, France and Croatia, four European teams have reached the Fifa World Cup semi-finals. They are more surprised, however, by the extraordinary success of the Croatian team, which with its win over Russia has put itself on a par with the legendary "bronze generation" team that placed third in 1998.

In the run-up to this week's Nato summit, US President Trump's critical stance has many participating states concerned about the cohesion of the defence alliance. Commentators explain how Nato can demonstrate strength and resolve despite the numerous imponderables.