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The Danish parliament has approved a new law proposed by the country's Social Democratic-Green government which would allow asylum seekers to be moved to countries outside the EU and kept there in asylum centres while their applications are processed. According to media reports, talks with Rwanda are already underway. News of the legislation has triggered indignation far beyond Denmark's borders.

Joe Biden sets out on his first foreign tour as US President tomorrow - and is heading to Europe for a week. The G7 summit is just one of many stops on this agenda. Europe's press spotlights the Nato summit on Monday, Biden's meeting with Erdoğan on the fringes of that event, and the much-publicised Biden-Putin rendezvous in Geneva next Wednesday.

The films The Brother and The Brother 2 by Russian director Alexei Balabanov, made in 1997 and 2000 respectively, are now available on Netflix and have triggered fierce debate in Ukraine. The main protagonist insults blacks, Caucasians and Ukrainians, provoking angry reactions from viewers. At the same time, pro-Russian forces are alienated by Netflix's decision to describe extreme right-wing Ukrainians with a vague, intransparent term in the film's subtitles.

The finance ministers of the G7 countries agreed on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent on Saturday. Under the deal, multinationals will pay more taxes in the country where they generate turnover rather than in the country where they have their headquarters, as has been the case so far. Participants at the meeting celebrated the decision as a historic reform. Commentators acknowledge this, but some doubt that it will truly curb tax avoidance.