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Seventy-seven years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, victims of the Holocaust are being commemorated in many European countries: the mass murder of millions of Jews and the conditions that made it possible are never to be forgotten. We are all called upon to counter anti-Semitism, commentators stress.

Portugal will elect a new parliament early on Sunday after the socialist minority government failed to achieve a majority for its 2022 budget. Prime Minister António Costa's Socialists were ahead in the polls but now the liberal-conservative PSD has caught up with them. The far-right Chega party also looks set to make significant gains. Some welcome the open race, others fear chaos.

A group of military officers seized power in Ouagadougou and arrested the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Kaboré, on Monday. The new rulers have links to the Russian mercenaries of the notorious Wagner Group. This is the third ousting of a head of state in West Africa within a few months, which leads commentators to conclude that the causes go beyond the situation in Burkina Faso.

The Partygate scandal is gathering momentum: Boris Johnson allegedly held a birthday party at 10 Downing Street at a time when private indoor meetings were prohibited. The government has not denied this, and Scotland Yard has initiated investigations against the PM. Commentators agree that much damage has been done - but not about whether Johnson will be forced to step down because of it.