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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against right-wing populism in Rome on Saturday. The rally on the Piazza San Giovanni was the biggest event so far of the "Sardine" movement which was founded in protest against the Lega party just a month ago. Italy's press discuss why so many people are attracted to the protest movement and what the long-term political consequences could be.

Boris Johnson's Conservatives obtained an absolute majority in the UK's general election last week, winning 365 of the 600 seats in parliament. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, pro-independence parties won the most votes. Europe's commentators discuss how the vote can change the continent - not just in political terms.

The Labour Party's results dipped to a historic low in last Thursday's general election: its share of parliamentary seats went down from 262 to just 203, the lowest number in 80 years. But this wasn't because the Tories were so convincing, European media conclude.

Ahmet Davutoğlu was once considered to be Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's political protégé and for a long time was one of his closest allies. Now the former head of government has founded his own party with an allegedly more progressive and democratic agenda than Erdoğans AKP, and he is harshly critical of the president. Is he a serious rival for the Turkish president?

The final text released after a marathon talks harked back to a deal made in Paris that placed no requirement on most countries to raise their targets until 2025. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.

The new Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union for 2021-2027 will focus even more on climate and environmental issues, particularly affecting Polish and European agriculture. EURACTIV Poland provides you with its Special Report.

The deputy Turkish minister of foreign affairs, Faruk Kaymakci, said Saturday that the EU should spend more than €6bn to support Syrian refugees in Turkey, Reuters reported. "As long as the crisis is there we have to work together. The €6bn will not solve the problem when it is finally all spent," Kaymakci said. According to the EU, more than €5.6bn have already been allocated, €3.5bn contracted, and €2.4bn disbursed.

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on EU states to take in migrants and asylum seekers from the Greek islands, which are currently overcrowded. "We need to develop a European asylum and migration pact, like what the [European] Commission promised, we need more burden sharing," he said in an interview with the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper, adding that some asylum applications should be processed in other countries.

The outcome of the UN climate conference in Madrid (COP25) has been described as a "catastrophe" by environmental groups, since countries failed to agree on article six of the Paris Agreement, referring to the carbon markets system.