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Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been featured in a cover story by fashion magazine Vogue. The pictures taken by star photographer Annie Leibovitz show Zelenska with her husband standing in front of soldiers and against a backdrop of destruction wreaked by the war. Europe's press discusses whether the piece struck the right tone.

More and more people are rooting for professional female athletes in all kinds of sports, and fans are eagerly anticipating the Uefa European Women's Football Championship final on Sunday. Not only the members of the German and English teams that made it through to the final, but all professional female athletes should no longer be compared to their male counterparts but celebrated in their own right, commentators underline, pointing to signs of real change.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Austria on Thursday. Chancellor Karl Nehammer's decision not to cancel the visit after Orbán's scandalous speech in Romania has sparked a fierce debate.

Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, announced on Tuesday that the country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station ISS collaborative project after 2024. Commentators voice concern about the future of the space station and fear the move could be a step towards the militarisation of space flight.

The climate crisis, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine are having an ever stronger impact on the global economic situation, according to the IMF. Rising costs - particularly for energy and food - are hitting people hard and curbing production, which has already decreased as a result of interrupted supply chains. Poorer countries are facing hunger. Europe's governments are trying out different strategies to help their citizens cope.