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A commercial by the airline SAS has caused an outcry, particularly online. It celebrates exchange through travel and the enrichment of Scandinavian culture through foreign influences. The Midsummer Festival and the traditional Plundergebäck pastry for example are also "imported", it claims. SAS temporarily took the video offline on Wednesday - and suspects right-wing forces behind the storm of protest. For the media, the ad hit a sore point.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reshuffled his cabinet in his own favour. The most prominent of those who lost their jobs were Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith. Javid resigned saying he could not accept Johnson's demand that he fire his team of aides. Johnson is surrounding himself with yes-sayers, Europe's press comments.

Spain is allowed to continue summarily deporting migrants from Morocco who try to cross the border into its exclaves of Melilla and Ceuta under a ruling delivered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday. Two refugees who were transferred from Melilla back to Morocco without being given a chance to explain their circumstances in 2013 in a practice known as "hot returns" had brought the case before the court.

In recent years a growing number of shops on Prague's popular tourist routes have begun openly selling souvenirs that glorify the Nazi era. Most recently a Czech publishing house brought out a new edition of an old children's book featuring Nazi propaganda and describing Jews as "poisonous mushrooms". Commentators demand an end to the practice.

The left-wing senator Bernie Sanders has won the second Democratic primary contest in the US. With 26 percent of the vote he secured a narrow victory over pragmatic and moderate candidate Pete Buttigieg, who won the Iowa primary by a razor-thin margin. Europe's commmentators examine Sanders' chances and look back at the US presidential election four years ago.