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Eight months before Sweden's next parliamentary elections, the country's new Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has come under fire over a cleaner working at her home. According to press reports, the cleaner had immigrated illegally from Nicaragua and was working without a residence permit for a subcontractor of the cleaning company Andersson had hired. Has the country lost control?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson allegedly held a garden party with dozens of guests in May 2020, when the whole country was in lockdown and "ordinary mortals" were only allowed to meet with two people. With the government already under investigation over a Christmas party that violated Covid restrictions, the European press wonders whether Johnson will be able to hold on to his office for much longer.

All of the five leftist candidates in the French presidential election are polling at below ten percent. After the proposal of Socialist Anne Hidalgo to elect a joint candidate was clearly rejected, former justice minister Christiane Taubira is pushing for 'popular primaries' to elect a joint candidate and has put herself forward for election. The national press is sceptical.

The first reports of a mysterious virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan emerged two years ago. Now the whole world is in the grips of Covid. Can we hope for an end after the current wave? Or will we have to live with it for many years to come? Europe's press delivers different verdicts.

Hungary will elect a new parliament in April. For the first time in years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose party Fidesz has ruled with a two-thirds majority since 2010, has reason to worry that he may not win. The long-divided opposition has united and its candidate Péter Márki-Zay is neck and neck with Orbán in the polls. But a change of power requires more than just votes, commentators point out.