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Diplomatic relations between Turkey and the West have reached a new low. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has instructed his foreign minister to prepare the expulsion of ten ambassadors of Western countries including the US, Germany and France. Commentators take very different views on the repercussions.

Despite the pressing problems, Angela Merkel's last EU summit brought no concrete decisions. The member states were unable to agree on joint measures either in the judicial dispute with Poland or on the question of migration via Belarus. A decision on the Spanish proposal to secure lower energy prices through joint gas purchases was also postponed. Commentators voice their disappointment.

Anti-Covid Vaccination rates are stagnating across Europe - and the lower the rate, the more alarming the infection and mortality figures of the fourth wave are. Austria is now considering drastic measures: curfews for the unvaccinated if the number of occupied Covid intensive care beds goes above 600. In Romania, where hospitals are once again overburdened, curfews are already in place.

The dispute over Poland's rule of law came to a head in Strasbourg last Tuesday: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threatened to block the Covid recovery aid requested by Warsaw until the country rescinds its contested judicial reforms. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accused the EU of blackmail, but at the end of the week held talks with Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.

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