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Joe Biden sets out on his first foreign tour as US President tomorrow - and is heading to Europe for a week. The G7 summit is just one of many stops on this agenda. Europe's press spotlights the Nato summit on Monday, Biden's meeting with Erdoğan on the fringes of that event, and the much-publicised Biden-Putin rendezvous in Geneva next Wednesday.

The films The Brother and The Brother 2 by Russian director Alexei Balabanov, made in 1997 and 2000 respectively, are now available on Netflix and have triggered fierce debate in Ukraine. The main protagonist insults blacks, Caucasians and Ukrainians, provoking angry reactions from viewers. At the same time, pro-Russian forces are alienated by Netflix's decision to describe extreme right-wing Ukrainians with a vague, intransparent term in the film's subtitles.

The finance ministers of the G7 countries agreed on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent on Saturday. Under the deal, multinationals will pay more taxes in the country where they generate turnover rather than in the country where they have their headquarters, as has been the case so far. Participants at the meeting celebrated the decision as a historic reform. Commentators acknowledge this, but some doubt that it will truly curb tax avoidance.

Budapest's left-wing mayor Gergely Karácsony has launched a bid to become the lead candidate of a coalition of opposition parties aimed at unseating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. To this end he announced the establishment of Alliance 99 (the 99 stands for 99 percent of the citizens). Hungary's main opposition parties on the left and right had already decided last year to run together against Orbán's Fidesz, which has been in power since 2010, in the 2022 parliamentary elections.