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EU Commissioner Phil Hogan also attended a dinner party which has plunged the Irish government into a major scandal. Hogan was among around 80 people from the Irish political establishment who attended the Irish parliamentary golf society event. He has apologised but has said he will not be resigning from his position. Commentators also see no reason for him to do so.

Police in Austria have arrested a man who carried out a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Graz, including attacking the head of the city's Jewish community and defacing its synagogue. Since the man, who has confessed to his crimes, is a Syrian who has been living in Austria since 2013, the country's media are discussing how to combat anti-Semitism in a migration society.

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is campaigning with the promise to reunite the country. In his address to the Democratic National Convention last week, he described the Trump years as a "chapter of darkness" in the country's history. Commentators discuss whether Biden hit the right note.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the discovery of 320 billion cubic meters of gas in the Black Sea on Friday. The price of the lira, which had risen before the speech, dropped once more shortly afterwards - presumably because the estimated quantity of gas is far lower than the figures previously talked of and will only cover Turkish demand for eight years. But not all commentators share the markets' disappointment.