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Following a frenetic back-and-forth, Sam Altman is once again CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI after being sacked in a surprise move by the company's board of directors last Friday. Shortly after his dismissal it was announced that he was switching to Microsoft. But apparently the threats of many OpenAI employees that they would quit unless Altman was reinstated had an impact. The press observes the circus with concern.

Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has announced that seven of the country's eight border crossing points with Russia will be closed. The Deputy Chancellor of Justice Mikko Puumalainen had so far prevented a complete closure of the borders. In November alone, several hundred migrants - mostly from the Middle East, Africa, Iraq and Yemen - have already crossed the Russian border into Finland without valid documents.

The ultra-liberal populist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential runoff election by a clear margin on Sunday. The candidate of the La Libertad Avanza party came out on top with just under 56 percent of the vote, leaving Economy Minister Sergio Massa of the left-wing Unión por la Patria trailing behind with 44 percent. Commentators discuss the reasons - and what to make of Milei's radical reform plans.

A ruling by Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has left the country's government financially strapped: 60 billion euros originally earmarked for combating the Covid crisis should not have been reallocated to climate protection projects in the 2021 supplementary budget, the court has ruled. Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) must now cancel the projects. The press has mixed feelings.