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The Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias wants to take advantage of the current tourism boom in the country and extend the holiday season from March to November. This has lead to enormous price increases on the already heated housing market. Teachers who move to work on islands popular with tourists, for example, can no longer find accommodation and are forced to sleep in tents or their cars. Commentators are outraged.

With just a few days to go before Italy's parliamentary elections, the post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) led by Giorgia Meloni continues to lead the polls while the social democratic Partito Democratico is trailing behind by a wide margin. This opens up the possibility of the right-wing bloc comprising the FdI, Lega and Forza Italia achieving a comfortable majority. What would this mean for the future of Europe?

Alla Pugacheva, a pop star and icon in Russia since the 1970s, has released a statement requesting that she be classified as a "foreign agent" in solidarity with her husband, comedian Maxim Galkin, who has been put on Russia's list of foreign agents. Her husband is an honest patriot who wishes his country "freedom of expression and an end to our boys dying for illusory aims which are turning our country into a pariah state", she said.