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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has withdrawn his support for the EPP's leading candidate Manfred Weber in the European elections. He gave as his reason Weber's comment that he would not want to become president of the EU Commission if it depended on Fidesz votes. Commentators interpret this as a final break with the EPP and speculate about the future for Orbán and Weber.

President Erdoğan has described the decision of the Supreme Electoral Council to annul the mayoral elections in Istanbul as a move to 'strengthen the democracy'. Opposition supporters took to the streets again on Tuesday and their parties are seeking a common strategy for the rerun. What are their chances?

Italy's government made up of Lega and the Five Star Movement is at odds over what to do about a junior minister in the Transport Ministry who is accussed of corruption. Five Star has demanded the resignation of the Lega minister and the cabinet is to reach a decision this Wednesday. But the case of the junior minister is just a pretext, observers suspect.

May 8 is celebrated as Liberation Day - the day that marked the end of the Second World War and liberation from the Nazis - in a number of European countries. In Russia May 9 is celebrated as Victory Day. The question of how this day should be commemorated is still contentious and some commentators are very unhappy about the current approach.

On 12 May Lithuanians will decide in a referendum on whether to change the constitution to allow dual citizenship. As the commentators explain, the issue is more complicated than it sounds.