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In his inaugural speech, Joe Biden promised to be "a president for all Americans. He issued a call for unity and urged people to listen to one another. The ceremony inspired hope in many observers that the new administration will be able to reunite the country. Others fear that it will be exclusive in its own way.

The situation could certainly be easier for the newly inaugurated 46th US president: Joe Biden is taking over a politically destabilised and economically weakened nation that is in the grips of a pandemic. Europe's press sees Biden and his team facing a whole series of urgent challenges.

The withdrawal of Matteo Renzi and his party from the governing coalition will not prompt new elections in Italy for the time being. The Senate gave Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte a vote of confidence on Tuesday, and the Chamber of Deputies followed suit. With 156 votes, however, Conte fell short of an absolute majority. Commentators are both relieved and disappointed.

One day after Navalny's arrest, his team has released a full-scale investigative documentary on Putin's wealth, including a bombastic palace of jaw-dropping luxury in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea and the corruption schemes that financed it. Navalny is making a risky gamble, commentators find, and see the confrontation between him and Putin coming to a head.