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Benjamin Griveaux, Macron's candidate for the Paris mayoral election, withdrew his candidacy on Friday after a lewd video which Griveaux had purportedly sent to his mistress was circulated online. Griveaux has filed a complaint against the Russian protest artist Piotr Pavlensky, who posted the video. The press asks just what the scandal is about.

Spain's left-wing coalition government consisting of the two parties PSOE and Unidas Podemos wants to ban by law statements that glorify the Franco dictatorship. The country's media is divided over whether this will have the desired effect.

In his annual state of the nation address, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised the success of his policies. He also attacked US billionaire George Soros and the "tired Brussels elites." Hungarian media take a critical view of the leader's statements and call attention to the issues he failed to mention.

The three-day-long Munich Security Conference ended on Sunday. This year's slogan at the summit was "Westlessness", with high-ranking participants from politics and business examining the question of what defines the "West" today and what future the concept has. Europe's press is unanimous that there are deep rifts within the alliance, but at odds over how to remedy the situation.