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Emmanuel Macron has called for the EU to adopt a new policy towards Russia and wants the Russian offer of a moratorium on medium-range missiles to be given serious consideration. Nato, however, has so far rejected the proposal. Commentators are also less than enthusiastic about the French president's initiative.

In Germany, SPD party members have elected a new leadership. In a surprise outcome Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans prevailed against Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz. The two newcomers want to take the struggling party in a more leftist direction. Commentators are concerned, or in some cases delighted, at the prospect of this new course resulting in the collapse of the coalition government with the CDU and CSU.

Social Democrat (SPD) party members have elected a new leadership. In a surprise outcome Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans prevailed against Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz. The two newcomers, who will lead the party together, want to put the struggling SPD on a leftist course and have announced plans to renegotiate the coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU. Europe's press is sceptical.

After a man stabbed two people to death and injured two others in an attack in London on Friday, terrorism has become the number one topic in the election campaign. The suspect had already been convicted of terrorist crimes in 2012 and spent six years in prison before being released on probation in 2018. Now the Labour Party and Tories are piling blame on each other. Europe's media find other reasons for the terror.