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The Gaza aid ship Madleen was intercepted by Israeli forces on Monday morning. The Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv described the boat as a 'selfie yacht' and announced that the activists on board, including Greta Thunberg, had been taken into custody and would be deported on Tuesday. The European press criticise the action and the reaction.

The representatives of around 130 countries, including numerous heads of state and government, are currently meeting in Nice in the south of France to discuss ways to protect the world's oceans. The key topics of the Ocean Conference are climate change, overfishing and pollution. European commentators pin their hopes on the event.

The Sudeten German Congress, the traditional annual meeting held to commemorate the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after WWII, could take place in the Czech Republic for the first time next year. A proposal to this effect, together with an invitation to Brno, was announced at this year's congress in Regensburg. Czech commentators see a significant shift in Czech-German relations.

The attacker, a former student armed with a pistol and shotgun, killed nine before taking his own life.

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about India eyeing major concessions on the EU trade deal, Italian referendums collapsing after a right-wing boycott, and so much more.

Supreme Court probe finds evidence Spain’s top prosecutor leaked confidential data in a politically sensitive case tied to Madrid’s regional government.