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The EU finance ministers are discussing Italy's plans to bail out the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena with taxpayers' money. This would be a breach of EU banking rules according to which the owners and creditors must agree to pay part of the costs of a bailout. Do the rules really need to be adjusted?

The Euro 2016 has ended with the victory of the Portuguese team. Commentators disagree: does football help to overcome crises?

The participants at the Nato summit in Warsaw have agreed to station 4,000 soldiers in Poland and the Baltic states to protect these countries from Russian aggression. Is this military build-up the right way to deal with Moscow?

David Cameron did not lay out concrete plans for a start to official exit negotiations at the EU summit. How fast should Britain leave the EU, and what must change in the Union after the Brexit?

Many in Britain are questioning the result of the Brexit referendum. A petition calling for a second referendum on EU membership has gathered more than three million signatures. The old have ruined the future of the young with their vote, some commentators argue. Others criticise that Brexit voters are being depicted negatively in the media.