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With just under three months to go before the EU elections French President Emmanuel Macron has stressed Europe's importance and proposed an action plan for revamping the European Union. His guest commentary has appeared in leading newspapers in all 28 EU member states. Can Macron's impassioned appeal reboot the EU project?

Roughly six weeks after the deadly knife attack against mayor Paweł Adamowicz the people of Gdańsk have elected Aleksandra Dulkiewicz as his successor by a large majority. She was already deputy mayor, and served as acting mayor after his death. What does her election portend?

A year ago the Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the English city of Salisbury with the chemical nerve agent novichok. Moscow refutes any involvement in the attempted murder even though it has been proven that Russian agents were in the city on the day the poisoning occurred. It wasn't just the former agent and his daughter who suffered as a result of the poisoning, commentators conclude.

After three years in opposition the liberal Reform Party won Estonia's parliamentary elections on Sunday with just under 29 percent of the vote. Its leader Kaja Kallas is now set to become the country's first woman prime minister. Journalists discuss not just Kallas' victory but also the rise of the national conservative party Ekre, which came third with almost 18 percent of the vote.

In the shadow of the Brexit and with nationalist parties on the rise many observers see the European elections at the end of May making or breaking the EU. While some commentators focus on the rivalry between pro and anti-Europeans, others say there's more to the vote than that.