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Just last week, EU leaders promised continued deliveries of weapons, ammunition, power generators and mobile heating stations to Ukraine. However Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country may veto a proposed financial package worth 50 billion. Slovakia's new Prime Minister Roberto Fico has also criticised the package. Are Orbán and Fico joining forces against Kyiv?

Almost half of Black people living in Europe experience racism in their daily lives, according to a new study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Voices in Finland's press are concerned to see that Finland showed the highest levels of discrimination and harassment after Germany and Austria.

Turkey celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic on Sunday. President Erdoğan honoured the state's founder Atatürk with a wreath. There were military parades and firework displays, but other celebrations were cancelled against the background of the war in the Gaza Strip. Starting in 1923 Atatürk pushed through Western-style secular reforms which critics accuse Erdoğan of reversing step by step. Europe's press takes stock.

After calling the radical Islamic terrorist organisation Hamas a liberation group last Wednesday, at the weekend Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went on to accuse Israel of war crimes in its operations aimed at destroying Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which the West condones. Israel reacted with anger and withdrew all diplomatic representatives from Turkey. Europe's press is also appalled.