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Israel's parliament on Monday approved key parts of the controversial judicial reform proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing ultra-orthodox government. Under the new legislation the Supreme Court would no longer be able to prevent laws from being passed on the grounds that they are unconstitutional. After mass protests, Netanyahu had halted the reform in March in favour of further discussions. Now new massive demonstrations have erupted.

In the run-up to the Nato summit taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius. Now that Sweden has been granted accession, the big question remains when Ukraine will become a member. While countries like Poland, the Baltic states, France and Ukraine itself are calling for the country to be admitted as soon as the war ends, others like the US want to offer comprehensive security guarantees rather than swift accession.

The path for Sweden to join Nato now appears to be clear: after months of blockading, Turkey's President Erdoğan has announced that he will submit the accession protocol to the Turkish parliament for ratification as soon as possible. Erdoğan made the announcement following a mediation meeting, Nato Secretary General Stoltenberg said. What does this mean for Sweden?

On 11 July Poland commemorates the victims of the Volhynia Massacre. Between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists murdered tens of thousands of Polish civilians in what is now western Ukraine but was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the time. After the two countries adopted a more conciliatory tone on the issue for the first time last year, this year Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Head of State Andrzej Duda attended a joint commemoration ceremony in Lutsk to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Massacre.

After resigning as Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte has now also announced his withdrawal from politics. His government collapsed on Friday over disagreements about family reunification for refugees. Commentators take stock of the country's longest-ruling prime minister and ask what the future holds.