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Belgium has introduced an unprecedented fee of €50 months per semester for the security check of journalists attending EU summits. Moreover, the fee discriminates against journalists permanently residing in Belgium and those from abroad, who don’t need to pay the fee.

The Polish Senate approved the amendments to the Polish electoral law for the European elections in 2019 – an issue that could become another flashpoint in the rule of law dispute between Warsaw and Brussels. EURACTIV Poland reports.

Migration is to be the key topic of the European elections and the "1968 elite" must be voted out of office: these demands were made by Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Hungarian minority in Romania's annual Tusványos Festival. Commentators see Orbán's words as groundbreaking. For some this is good news, for others it is bad.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has criticised Italy for the growing number of attacks on migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and Italian citizens of foreign origin. In the most recent case, discus thrower Daisy Osakue was hit by an egg hurled at her from a passing car. Italy's press believes Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is mainly to blame for the recent spate of attacks.

More refugees are now arriving in Spain than in the past twelve years, and the number has for the first time exceeded those arriving in Italy. Commentators discuss what is behind the increase in refugee flows between Morocco and Spain.

The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that in future doctors will be able to remove life-support for patients in a permanent vegetative state with the consent of their relatives. Up to now this had only been possible if the relatives took the case to court. Some journalists praise the decision while others see it as transgressing a moral boundary.

Steve Bannon, former aide and political guru to US President Donald Trump, has a new mission: he wants to unite right-wing and populist parties in the European Union.