European Union

British MPs will vote once again on the Brexit deal with Brussels on 12 March. If the deal is rejected the parliament is to vote two days later on postponing the country's exit from the EU in order to avoid a disorderly Brexit. Commentators discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a postponement.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against racism and the government's populits policies in Milan on Saturday. The demo's slogan: "People first" plays on the "The Italians first" slogan of Lega leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who takes a hard line against migrants. Commentators see the demonstration as an important signal.

After three years in the opposition the liberal Reform Party won Estonia's parliamentary elections on Sunday with just under 29 percent of the vote, and will once again return to government. Opinion polls put the social-liberal Centre Party in front, however the high number of e-voters benefited the Reform Party in the end. Leader Kaja Kallas now stands to be the country's first woman prime minister.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has pledged to put up new anti-migrant posters - despite hopes in his centre-right EU family that he might "apologise and put an end" to the campaign.

Several Balkan capitals were hit by anti-government protests over the weekend, adding to talk about a 'Balkan Spring' rising against EU-backed leaders who activists say erode rule of law. Thousands of people rallied in Serbia, Albania and Montenegro, demanding that corrupt leaders resign, while several hundred Croatian journalists took to the streets in the capital Zagreb against a wave of lawsuits filed against them.

The president of Italy's Lazio region, Nicola Zingaretti, was Sunday elected leader of the centre-left Democratic party with 67 percent support among 1.6 million party members participating in the vote. The party was formerly led by ex-prime minister Matteo Renzi and is currently polling at 18.2 percent, according to Italy's YouTrend. The governing right-wing League party has 35.9 percent support and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement 21.2 percent.