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The 29th World Climate Conference began yesterday in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. The focus is on the financing of global climate measures and the international community's overall commitment to climate protection. Commentators also take a look at oil and gas exporter Azerbaijan as host.

Pro-Palestinian rioters targeted and attacked Israeli fans after a football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, leaving between 20 and 30 people injured, according to police reports. For Europe's press, the violence is further evidence of an antisemitic trend that must be stopped.

Exactly 180 years after crude oil was successfully drilled for the first time ever in Baku, the COP29 world climate conference is taking place there. The focus is on the question of how to finance global climate measures - especially now that the US is considered an uncertain partner following Donald Trump's election victory.

On the evening of 9 November 1989, the authorities of the communist German Democratic Republic opened the border crossing points to West Germany and West Berlin. Less than a year later, Germany was unified and the East-West conflict seemed to be a thing of the past. The historic date prompts Europe's press to take a critical look at old and new dividing lines.