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Slowly but surely, the number of people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus is rising. Should these people be issued vaccination certificates to enable them to return sooner to a more normal way of life, as for example Denmark is planning to do? Perhaps even before other sections of the population have had the chance to be vaccinated? Press voices across Europe say solidarity should take precedence over individual freedom here.

During an official trip to the island of Icaria, Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his staff were filmed having lunch with 30 people. This is not the first time he has violated the coronavirus rules introduced by his own government. A telling scandal or nothing to get in a huff about?

A Bucharest district court has sentenced Holocaust denier Vasile I. Zărnescu, whose views have been known for decades, to a prison sentence of 13 months on probation. This is the first time the option of punishing Holocaust denial with a prison sentence of up to five years, which has existed since 2002, has been used. But the country's commentators say tougher action is needed.

After Astrazeneca became the third western vaccine manufacturer to announce that it will deliver fewer vaccine doses than originally promised to the EU, it is clear that there will be severe shortages, at least in the first quarter. Commentators are discussing how Europe can get hold of more vaccines. Both alternative vaccines from Russia and China and the idea of longer intervals between the first and second doses meet with scepticism.