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À la Une : les Européens en quête de solutions pour réduire leur dépendance à l'équipement militaire américain, la République tchèque appelle l'UE à réagir après les coupes annoncées par Donald Trump dans Radio Free Europe.

Der designierte deutsche Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz trifft am Dienstag in Berlin mit Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron zusammen. Das bestätigte ein Sprecher der Christdemokraten. Das Treffen findet im Vorfeld des kommenden EU-Gipfels statt.

More than 100,000 demonstrators marched against corruption under President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade on Saturday. Observers talk of this being the biggest popular rally since the fall of Slobodan Milošević 25 years ago. The months-long unrest was triggered by the fatal collapse of a roof at Novi Sad train station, which has been blamed on shoddy construction and cronyism. Europe's press chimes in.

US President Trump is giving Nato the cold shoulder, alienating the US's allies and negotiating with Putin on the war in Ukraine without involving the Europeans. Both the EU and the individual member states are mobilising funds for defence, Paris is extending its nuclear umbrella and London is forming new alliances. The media discuss Europe's security model in transition.

Donald Trump has issued a presidential order decreeing massive cuts to Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other US international broadcasters. According to media reports, around 1,300 employees have already been placed on administrative leave. Since the Cold War, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has played a key role as an independent voice in autocracies and dictatorships worldwide. Ukrainian and Russian commentators fear the worst.

In the early spring of 2020, Europe became a hotspot of the Covid-19 pandemic that first broke out in China. Most countries responded with restrictions that brought massive changes to people's everyday lives. Commentators in Europe's press recall how Covid - and the countermeasures - changed life and society with effects that are still being felt to this day.