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On Monday, Ukrainian entrepreneur Rinat Akhmetov announced that all the TV and print licences of Media Group Ukraine will be transferred to the state and that the company's online media operations will be discontinued. Media Group Ukraine owns eleven TV stations, the news site Segodnya.ua and the online TV service OLL.TV. The move was provoked by the threat of Akhmetov being included in the oligarch register. Ukrainian commentators voice concern.

The summer has barely begun but already Europe is experiencing several emergency situations as a result of global warming. Heat waves in June broke several temperature records, acres of forest burned in Spain, France and Germany, Italy is struggling with persistent droughts and the next heat wave is already on the way. Europe's press discusses solutions to this pressing problem.

The euro is weaker than it has been in twenty years. This week it fell to parity with the US dollar. Economists blame the effects of the Ukraine war and the fight against inflation for the drop in the currency's value. Commentators examine the development from different perspectives.

Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Marić signed the document sealing his country's entry into the Eurozone on Tuesday: at the Ecofin meeting the head of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, and the finance ministers of the Eurozone congratulated Croatia, which will convert to the single currency on the first of January 2023. What could or must change now for Zagreb?