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The authorities in several northern European countries are preparing their populations for increasingly likely emergency scenarios such as war, environmental disasters and other threats. Swedish households have received brochures, Finland has a dedicated website providing key information, and Norway has also recently published guidance on preparing for such scenarios. The press focuses on what matters in emergency situations.

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference in Baku has come to an end. For two weeks, delegates from around the world grappled over a new financial equalisation formula between industrialised and developing countries in global climate protection funding. In the end, they agreed on 300 billion dollars per year as of 2035. The estimated required sum was 1.3 trillion, however.

Before the Romanian presidential election, speculation was rife about whether George Simion of the far-right AUR party would make it to the runoff vote. Now, another far-right candidate has surprisingly taken the lead: Călin Georgescu, who was charged with Holocaust denial in 2022 and has sharply criticised Romania's Nato membership. Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu apparently came in third, just a few votes behind the centre-right candidate Elena Lasconi, which means he won't be in the runoff vote.

Protests and events are taking place around the world today to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Commentators in Europe's press denounce the many forms and structures in which this violence is manifested.

With minimal growth of just 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2024, the German economy has only narrowly avoided a recession. The ECB's new Financial Stability Review predicts a fragile environment for Europe as a whole, marked by geopolitical uncertainty and tensions in global trade. Europe's press sounds the alarm.