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Iceland has already introduced the four-day week and former Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev already predicted in 2019 that it would become standard. Covid is now giving the concept another boost: according to surveys many people not only want to continue working from home at least in part but would also prefer a 30-hour week to higher earnings. Observers are divided as to how quickly change will come.

The Finnish prosecutor's office filed charges on Friday against three journalists from the daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat who published an article about military intelligence in 2017 based on classified documents. Finnish newspapers see the trial as a threat to their work.

Scepticism prevails shortly before the 26th UN World Climate Conference which begins on Sunday in Glasgow. According to a new UN report the world's governments plan to produce twice as much oil, gas and coal by 2030 as the Paris Agreement allows. Commentaries in European media are also filled with fatalism, but there are still those who see potential for success.

A British trawler has been detained by the French coastguard on the grounds that it doesn't have a licence to fish in French waters. London reacted by summoning the French ambassador to demand an explanation. The incident brings the dispute over post-Brexit fishing licences for the English Channel to a head. "This is not a war, but a fight," said France's Maritime Minister Annick Girardin. What are the dimensions of the row?