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The German Ministry of the Interior has banned the right-wing extremist magazine Compact. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser justified the ban saying it was a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist milieu that incites hatred against Jews, people with a migration background and parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner. Commentators are not unanimously in favour of the decision.

On 15 July 1974, Cypriot officers, supported by the Greek military junta, staged a coup against the democratically elected government in Nicosia with the aim of making Cyprus part of Greece. Turkey then occupied the northern part of the island, invoking its right to intervene as the protecting power of the Turkish Cypriots. That the occupation of the north continues to this day, long after those who staged the coup were overthrown, is as much of a violation of international law as the coup itself.

The question of how to deal with Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine was at the heart of the Nato summit that ended on Thursday. Kyiv will receive 40 billion euros in military aid over the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and five air defence systems. Russia was described as the "greatest and most immediate threat", and China as its "decisive accomplice". While Ukraine did not receive a formal invitation to join, its path into Nato is "irreversible", the alliance has stressed. The reactions in the press are mixed.

After being kicked out of the ID group, the MEPs of the German AfD party were left without a group in the EU Parliament. And in the new parliament none of the major right-wing groups wanted to work with them either. Now 14 AfD members - without Maximilian Krah - have reportedly joined forces with eleven other MEPs from seven countries to form a new group called Europe of Sovereign Nations.

After Joe Biden's weak performance in the televised debate with Donald Trump and gaffes at the Nato summit, calls for him to withdraw from the US presidential race are growing louder. Current polls put the incumbent behind Trump. Despite Biden's repeated avowals that he won't step aside, the debate in Europe's press continues.