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Israeli authorities have reopened the only border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for a limited number of people. More than two months after the UN resolution on the peace plan, Europe's press takes a sceptical look at the situation on the ground.

Several winners at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday used their acceptance speeches to criticise the actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE and to make other political statements. Afterwards, US President Donald Trump described the event as "garbage" and announced that he would be taking legal action against its presenter.

In the Czech Republic, President Petr Pavel and Andrej Babiš's right-wing coalition government are locked in a fierce dispute after Foreign Minister Petr Macinka tried to force the head of state to appoint Filip Turek, the Motorist Party's honorary president, as minister of the environment. At least 80,000 people took to the streets in Prague on Sunday to support Pavel.

For the first time since 2019, the freezing temperatures mean that motor vehicles could travel across the ice from Estonia's mainland to its islands. However, the authorities are refusing to set up ice roads on the grounds that they are too expensive, too risky, and that no money has been allocated to such roads in the budget. Locals are now driving across the ice at their own risk in some places.

After the US deployed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other warships to the Middle East last week, it remains unclear whether there will be an attack on Iran. According to the Iranian state news agency Irna the country's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has called for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Media reports suggest that talks on a new nuclear deal are taking place behind the scenes. European commentators warn of the dangers of a military strike.