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Tuesday will go down as one of the most dramatic days in British parliamentary history. After just weeks in power, Boris Johnson now wants a snap Brexit election - but will the Labour opposition let him?

The EU commission says the backstop is the only solution to avoid a hard border. Brussels also frees up emergency funds for EU member states struggling with any unforeseen economic fallout of a no-deal Brexit.

With all 27 EU countries - except the UK - having nominated their candidates, it is now clear what the next European Commission will look like.

On Thursday at 10AM, the members of the new Italian government will be sworn in, but the names are already known. Roberto Gualtieri, currently chair of the European Parliament's committee of economic and monetary affairs, becomes minister of the economy. Former deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio is Italy's new foreign minister. Matteo Salvini will be succeeded at the interior ministry by the independent female lawyer Luciana Lamorgese.

Speaking at a conference in Brussels, the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, and his successor Quim Torra, called for "massive participation" in demonstrations that will take place on the National Catalan day (11 September). They also lamented that the seats of the Catalan politicians elected for the EU Parliament remain empty. "The vote of the Catalans [is] not worth less than the rest of the Europeans," Puigdemont said.

British MPs will vote on Wednesday whether to delay Brexit once again, but the government aims to call an election to stop that.

The Riga-based Nato Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence says it has uncovered loopholes on how social media is gamed to sway voters in the European elections.

Germany has comfortable margins to abandon - at least temporarily - its fiscal orthodoxy and support its society and Europe in a time of global economic uncertainty and slower growth.

Supporters of the Five Star Movement (M5S) votes yes to a new government lead by Giuseppe Conte, with 79 percent support through an online voting system, where 117,000 people were subscribed. On Wednesday Conte will go to president Sergio Mattarella to present a new government of M5S and the Democratic Party (PD). Former deputy prime minister and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio will become Italy's new foreign minister.

Paolo Gentiloni Silveri will become Italy's new European commissioner. He was nominated the moment the Five Star Movement (M5S) voted yes to a new government with Paolo Conte as its prime minister. Gentiloni is a founding member of the Democratic Party. He was Italy's foreign minister between 2014 and 2016, and its prime minister from 2016 until 2018. He played an important role in making the new Italian coalition possible.

The European Council has decided to allocate €101.4m from its 2020 budget to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, to start building a force of 10,000 border guards. This number should be reached by 2027. The council stated that "in the field of security and migration, the EU budget will continue to support member states". Frontex foresees an operational staff of 5,000 people by 2021.

North Macedonia's foreign minister, Nikola Dimitrov, said he expects to receive from the EU a date for the start of accession talks in October, Reuters reports. He added this is important in order not to discourage the Balkan states from reform and for young people not to migrate to the EU. The Former Republic of Macedonia became North Macedonia thanks to an agreement with Greece after a two-decades dispute.

British prime minister Boris Johnson faced a stormy debate on Brexit as parliament met for the first time since summer recess Tuesday. He said plans to delay Brexit until January, mooted by some MPs, were a "surrender bill" to the EU. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said Johnson's only idea was a "reckless" one to crash out of Europe. Tory rebels said Johnson's plan was to blame the EU for no-deal.

In its annual report, the EU's anti-fraud agency said it concluded nine investigations into Hungary and found irregularities in seven cases. In total, the agency recommended the recovery of €371m EU-wide.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson lost his already razor-tight House of Commons majority of one on Tuesday, as a Conservative MP dramatically defected to the opposition Liberal Democrats. Philip Lee, a Conservative MP since 2010, dramatically crossed the floor of the chamber to join the opposition benches during Johnson's statement on the G7 summit, saying later the party he was leaving "was no longer the party I joined in 1992."

Spain's acting PM Pedro Sánchez insists he can solve the country's political deadlock without repeating elections or agreeing on a coalition government. Instead, he is trying to get the backing of the left-wing party Unidas Podemos with over 300 proposals.

Boris Johnson's political advisor, Dominic Cummings, has said the ongoing Brexit talks with the EU over the Irish backstop are a "sham", according to the Daily Telegraph, citing two sources. Many MPs, both Labour and Conservative, believe the UK government is privately only interested in a no-deal Brexit on October 31 - despite Johnson promising German chancellor Angela Merkel last month he would present new ideas on the Irish backstop.

Brexiteers want trade policy to be made in the UK, not the EU. But do they know how international trade actually works?

Boris Johnson issued a Brexit ultimatum to rebel MPs by promising to call a snap general election if parliament pushes ahead with a bill to block a no-deal Brexit.

MEP Laszlo Trocsanyi, from Hungary's ruling Fidesz party, stood down as a candidate for the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee co-chair, a Fidesz statement said Monday, as he was nominated to be Hungary's new commissioner. The vote in the parliament is scheduled for Tuesday and had been controversial due to Fidesz's rule of law track record. A new Fidesz candidate will be put forward, the statement said.