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State Premier Reiner Haseloff's Christian Democrats (CDU) won a clear victory in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, securing 37.1 percent of the vote. The right-wing populist AfD remained the second strongest force with 20.8 percent. Europe's press takes different views of the results, also as regards the ramifications for Germany's upcoming general election.

The Danish parliament has approved a new law proposed by the country's Social Democratic-Green government which would allow asylum seekers to be moved to countries outside the EU and kept there in asylum centres while their applications are processed. According to media reports, talks with Rwanda are already underway. News of the legislation has triggered indignation far beyond Denmark's borders.

Joe Biden sets out on his first foreign tour as US President tomorrow - and is heading to Europe for a week. The G7 summit is just one of many stops on this agenda. Europe's press spotlights the Nato summit on Monday, Biden's meeting with Erdoğan on the fringes of that event, and the much-publicised Biden-Putin rendezvous in Geneva next Wednesday.

The films The Brother and The Brother 2 by Russian director Alexei Balabanov, made in 1997 and 2000 respectively, are now available on Netflix and have triggered fierce debate in Ukraine. The main protagonist insults blacks, Caucasians and Ukrainians, provoking angry reactions from viewers. At the same time, pro-Russian forces are alienated by Netflix's decision to describe extreme right-wing Ukrainians with a vague, intransparent term in the film's subtitles.