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At least 47 people were killed and 80 injured in a head-on collision between two trains on the Athens-Thessaloniki line on Tuesday. Employees of the Hellenic Railway Company OSE explained that traffic on the line has been controlled manually since 2000 due to a damaged signalling system. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has blamed human error for the tragedy. Greece's press says he is evading his own responsibility with this statement.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti met with EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell in Brussels on Monday to discuss the Franco-German plan to normalise the situation in Kosovo. Although nothing has yet been signed, the proposal can be considered accepted, Borrell said, adding that all that remains to be done is to implement it. Commentators are less certain about that.

"We are experiencing a turning point. And that means that the world after this point will no longer be the same as the world before it." These words said by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a year ago in the face of the war against Ukraine raised many expectations in Europe. Would Germany end its restraint in military matters, change its policy towards Russia and reposition itself as a leading Western power? Commentators remain sceptical.