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The Allianz stadium in Munich will not be lit up in rainbow colours when Germany plays against Hungary tonight. Munich's mayor and city council had written to the Uefa president asking for the stadium to be lit up as a "highly visible signal of our common understanding of values", but Uefa refused. A number of commentators stress that the decision should not be denounced offhand.

Despite strong opposition across the country, the Spanish government has pardoned nine imprisoned Catalan separatist leaders. They will be released on parole on Wednesday after more than three years behind bars and are banned from holding political office. While Spanish commentators are divided over whether this was the right decision, media from other countries approve.

On 22 June 1941, the German Reich under Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. A non-aggression pact was in force between the two powers at the time, so the USSR was ill-prepared for the attack. By the end of the Second World War, 27 million Soviet citizens had lost their lives - the highest death toll of any nation. To this day, the commemoration of the invasion testifies to widely differing perspectives.

The death of Caroline Crouch, a British woman, is making headlines in Greece. The Greek husband confessed to killing her last week and is now being tried by a court in Athens. He had previously lied to investigators for almost two weeks, claiming his wife was killed by a foreign gang in an armed robbery. Commentators are incensed by the country's handling of femicides.

Sweden's Social Democratic Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has lost a vote of no confidence in which the conservatives, the Left Party and the hitherto isolated right-wing populist Sweden Democrats voted against him. The latter initiated the vote, taking advantage of a dispute over rent policy in which the Left Party, as a supporter of the Red-Green minority government, had insisted on more influence.