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The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, has tasked her security advisor Dorin Recean with forming a new government after the government led by Natalia Gavriliță resigned on Friday. Gavriliță's pro-EU government had been under pressure for months due to massive increases in energy and food prices. What role are pro-Russian forces playing here?

After meetings in London and Paris, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the EU Parliament in Brussels on Thursday. Ukraine needs more arms and in particular fighter jets from the West to defend democracy in Ukraine and all Europe, he said. Europe's press is divided on the issue.

The recovery work after the severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria continues. Europe's press comments on the first political repercussions of the disaster and speculates on those yet to come - not only, but also in the Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for May.

Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut was sentenced to eight years of hard labour in a penal colony on Wednesday by a court in Minsk. He has been in pre-trial detention since March 2021. The Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent was convicted on charges of endangering national security through his anti-government reporting. Poland's press is shaken.