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Britain has announced that it intends to recognise Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly at the end of September. Just a few days earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron made a similar announcement. However, British PM Keir Starmer has said he will only make this move if Israel fails to take significant steps to improve the situation in the Gaza Strip. The media take stock.

For more and more Europeans, summer holidays are becoming an unaffordable luxury. In recent years, inflation has pushed up the cost of travel services and accommodation, and prices at restaurants and bars have also increased. This negative trend prompts a mixture of nostalgia and anger from commentators.

Following several new clashes, the ceasefire agreed between Cambodia and Thailand under pressure from the US after days of heavy fighting is apparently under threat. The conflict centres on the two historic temples Ta Muen Thom and Preah Vihear in the border region, to which both countries lay claim. Commentators examine the reasons behind the dispute and see little hope of it being resolved any time soon.

The EU and the US have settled their tariff dispute: tariffs of 15 percent will apply to most EU exports to the US, and Europe will not impose any new counter-tariffs. On Sunday in Scotland, Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen also agreed that the bloc would make massive purchases of energy and defence equipment from the US. The European press comments on different aspects of the deal and draws its own conclusions.