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The Dutch government has paid 680 million to boost its share in Air France-KLM to 12.7 percent and plans to put its stake on a par with that of the French government, at 14.3 percent. The press speculates on The Hague's motives and the consequences of this move.

In reaction to recent acts of anti-Semitism in France, President Macron has announced to the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions that he plans to extend the official definition of anti-Semitism to include anti-Zionism, in line with the definition given by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Commentators take opposing views of the step.

Ukraine's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is becoming a crucial test. Singer Maruv had won the public vote to be the country's entrant but the fact that she goes on tour in Russia has sparked a political dispute. The public broadcaster UA:PBC and Maruv got into an argument about the terms of her participation in the contest, and as a result the singer will not travel to Tel Aviv. A hot topic in Eastern Europe's press.

European digital services are successful, well-managed and ambitious businesses. They operate on a market that has a highly skilled workforce and more than 500 million consumers. Yet, they lag behind entities from the US and China when it comes to their global expansion and market value, writes Magdalena Piech.

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The conditions set by the Portuguese Government for the reprivatisation of TAP are compatible with EU law with the exception of the requirement to maintain and develop the existing national hub

Israel is trying to annex Palestinian lands by making friends with far-right extremists in Europe and the US, an Israeli NGO has warned MEPs in Brussels.

Some 17 EU states have signed a letter to EU Council president Donald Tusk urging him to protect single market freedoms in the face of Franco-German initiatives, such as one last year to limit the rights of temporary workers in other EU states, Polish daily Rzezpospolita reports. The coalition includes Baltic states, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, as well as Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden.

The European Parliament's budget control committee backs Laura Codruta Kovesi for the EU chief prosecutor post after Tuesday's hearing, despite being the second-favourite of member states. The main committee in the case will vote on Wednesday.

The QS World University Rankings published on Tuesday rank universities in the United States and the United Kingdom as among the world's best. The top listing went to MIT, followed by Stanford, Harvard and Caltech in the US. Oxford placed fifth, followed by Cambridge. For EU member states, the second highest listing went to France's PSL university, which placed 50th.

Albanian police used teargas Tuesday (26 February) to disperse hundreds of opposition protesters who tried to prevent ruling Socialist MPs from entering parliament.

The Guardian newspaper citing unnamed sources reported on Wednesday that Hungary's Viktor Orban could face expulsion from the European Parliament's centre-right European People's Party (EPP) political group. The EPP is set to discuss Orban and his Fidesz party on 20 March. The EPP is the parliament's largest group but has been wrangling over Orban's increasingly populist and anti-EU rhetoric.

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that the organic production logo of the EU cannot be placed on meat derived from animals that have been slaughtered in accordance with religious rites without first being stunned. The case initially stems from France where farm animal rights group, the Oeuvre d'Assistance aux Betes d'Abattoirs (OAB), argued against labelling Halal meat products as organic.

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Setting a target for low-carbon gases such as hydrogen or biomethane is going to be tricky even though the idea is supported by industry, a senior EU official has said, warning against a one-size-fits-all approach.