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Turkish media report that hundreds of Turkish citizens who entered Germany visa-free using grey "service passports" have since gone into hiding there. In one case, a businessman from Hanover acted as the inviter and four civil servants in the AKP-ruled province of Malatya have been suspended for their complicity. The fugitives are said to have paid up to 8,000 euros for the grey passports.

"Retweet if you've drunk a litre of Evian today," the French mineral water company tweeted on 13 April, the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Some users were offended and complained about racism. This in turn has provoked Islamophobic reactions, escalating the debate. Evian then felt compelled to apologise. The French press looks on in disbelief.

The Shanghai-based Fudan University plans to open a campus in Budapest in 2024, with a capacity of around 5,000 students and 500 teaching staff. Hungary's Minister of Innovation and Technology, László Palkovics, signed a corresponding agreement with the university's president in Shanghai in 2019. The plan has triggered a heated debate in Hungary.

With Russian troops concentrated on the border with Ukraine, the leading Russian opposition figure imprisoned and his health rapidly deteriorating, and the Czech leadership now accusing Moscow of being behind a terrorist attack in the Czech Republic, commentators look at how the West should react to the mounting tensions in its relations with Russia.

Angela Merkel has been German Chancellor since November 2005 - the only chancellor to hold office longer was Helmut Kohl. But in the elections to the Bundestag this autumn, she won't stand for office, and the CDU has been unable to agree on who should step into the ring instead. The Greens have chosen Annalena Baerbock as their candidate. Commentators are full of anticipation.