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Greece officially concluded its ESM financial assistance programme on Monday. This means that it will have to finance itself on the markets for the first time in eight years. Although the country's economic data has improved of late, one in five Greeks is still unemployed and the national debt is still at 180 percent of GDP. Has Greece really been saved?

In der Nacht zum 21. August 1968 beendeten Truppen des Warschauer Paktes die Demokratisierungsversuche des kommunistischen Systems in der Tschechoslowakei, die als Prager Frühling in die Geschichte eingingen. Die Auswirkungen des Einmarsches sind nach Ansicht von Kommentatoren bis heute sichtbar - nicht nur in Osteuropa.

The euro bailout fund ESM's programme of loans to Greece has ended this week, meaning that for the first time in eight years Greece will have to finance itself on the markets. The country's economic data has improved of late but one in five of its inhabitants is still unemployed and the national debt is still 180 percent of GDP. Has Greece really been saved?

Ahead of his trip to Ireland Pope France has called for "zero tolerance" for sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. In a letter to believers around the world he described it as a crime, demanded investigations and condemned what he described as an "abnormal understanding of authority in the Church". Will his words change anything?