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With just days to go before the vote on the Brexit agreement with the EU, Prime Minister May has suffered another blow in the House of Commons. MPs decided by a narrow margin that she must present a plan B within three days if her current proposal is voted down next Tuesday. Europe's press sees the PM on the brink of an abyss.

The refugees who spent the last few weeks waiting on rescue ships off Malta's coast were able to disembark on Wednesday. From there they will be distributed to eight EU states. But for many commentators the affair is far from over.

The Democrats are to blame for the shutdown and for illegal immigrants posing a threat to the US - at least that's what Trump's first televised address to the nation would have us believe. The US president once again called on the opposition to release 5.7 billion dollars for the construction of a border wall. The Democrats see the project as a waste of money. For journalists too, Trump is on the wrong track.

Andalusia is to be governed by a centre-right coalition with support from the far right. After its success in the regional elections in December the far-right party Vox has said it is willing to vote in favour of the formation of a governing coalition between the conservative Popular Party and the liberal Ciudadanos party. What consequences will the first pact in Spain with the far right since the Franco dictatorship have?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras today in Athens. Relations between the two countries have been far from good in recent years, above all due to Germany's insistence on the austerity programme during the euro crisis, which hit the Greeks particularly hard. All water under the bridge now?