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Incumbent Zoran Milanović has won a second term as Croatia's president in the runoff vote on Sunday. He secured more than 74 percent of the vote, easily beating former minister Dragan Primorac, who was supported by the conservative ruling party HDZ. Milanović comes from the Social Democratic Party. He was prime minister from 2011 to 2016 and has held the office of head of state since 2020.

US President-elect Donald Trump plans to meet with President Vladimir Putin soon to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine. Talking from his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump said he knew that Putin wanted a meeting and that a conversation was being prepared for the near future, stressing: "We have to end this war." Commentators are divided.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has announced last week that content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads will no longer be reviewed by third-party fact-checking teams. Instead, as with Elon Musk's X platform, the company will rely on user comments as a corrective. The change will initially only apply for the US. Europe's press sees it as symptomatic of a global trend and discusses appropriate responses.