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Donald Trump has won a sweeping victory in the first Republican caucus for the US presidential election. With 51 percent, he took more than half of the votes in Iowa, followed by Ron DeSantis with around 21 percent and Nikki Haley with roughly 19 percent. Fourth-placed Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. Europe's press braces for hard times ahead.

Representatives from the worlds of politics and business have been convening since Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the 54th World Economic Forum. Despite another high-ranking line-up, commentators question, not for the first time, what purpose the forum fulfils today.

The right-wing populist Chega party organised a conference on the weekend to prepare for the upcoming election campaign in Portugal. According to polls it could win around 15 percent of the vote in the snap parliamentary election on 10 March. Portuguese media analyse the reasons for the party's growing popularity and potential consequences.

The farmers' protests in Germany against the traffic light coalition government's plans to cut subsidies came to an end on Monday with a large rally in Berlin. The main issue was subsidies for diesel, which the government under Olaf Scholz still plans to axe despite the protests. Commentators from other European countries assess the mood in the country based on the protests.