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Prime Minister May defended her Brexit plan at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham: if the party fails to support her either Labour will take over or Brexit won't take place, she said. While some commentators say her dynamic performance has convinced people that she can bring Brexit to a successful conclusion, others fear the outcome is beyond her control.

The Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans has once again called on the Romanian government to renounce its planned judicial reform. The Commission sees the independence of the judges and the separation of powers in danger. Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has rejected the accusations. What fate awaits Romania now?

French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Gérard Collomb. Collomb had already announced in mid-September that he intended to run for the post of mayor of Lyon and would resign as minister for that reason. Macron has lost control of his cabinet, commentators write.

Putin has called the poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal a "scumbag" and a "traitor". The research network Bellingcat reported last week that one of the men suspected of the attack was Anatoliy Chepiga, a colonel in the Russian military intelligence agency GRU. Is Putin losing his temper now that he feels he's been cornered?