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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.

At a meeting with Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, the US president said that other EU countries should adopt the same tough line on migration.

EU states have spoken out in strident terms against the Israeli demolition of another Palestinian community - but what are they prepared to do to stop the war crime?

Elmar Brok, a senior MEP with the centre-right German CDU party, said it was a "mistake" for pro-EU politicians not to have been involved in the campaign before the Brexit referendum. "We should have faced the lies of the Brexit advocates much more aggressively," Brok said in a FAZ newspaper interview published Tuesday. He also expressed support for a second referendum on the UK's future.