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British opposition leader Keir Starmer has said he will seek to renegotiate the Brexit trade agreement between London and Brussels in the event of a Labour election victory. Starmer said he wants to secure a better deal. During visits to The Hague and Paris he also expressed openness to new deals with the EU on migration policy. A sensible initiative or delusional?

Spanish - or Castilian - is no longer the only language that can be used in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. Since Tuesday the regional languages Catalan, Basque and Galician may also also be spoken there, as is already the case in the Senate. The amendment is a concession to the Catalan separatists, whose votes Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez needs to secure another term in office. The press takes stock of the situation also at the EU level.

According to a study by an independent team of historians from the University of Zurich, since the 1950s there have been at least 1002 cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Switzerland. The historians had been given access to confidential files from the church's archives for the first time. What can be done to put an end to such mistreatment?

Ukraine has said it will sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia before the World Trade Organisation on the grounds that the refusal of these countries' to lift restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, announced last Friday, is illegal. Brussels has allowed restrictions imposed in May to help individual EU states take measures to protect their markets against cheap food imports from Ukraine to expire.