US President Donald Trump has announced a massive additional package of tariffs. On top of a flat rate of 10 percent on all goods imported into the US, variable tariffs set at 20 percent for the EU and 34 percent for China will apply. Europe's press debates how big the impact will be and how it can be countered.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Europe for the first time since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip. He arrived today in Budapest, where he will be received by Viktor Orbán - despite the fact that Hungary, as a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is obliged to arrest Netanyahu under an international arrest warrant. The Hungarian government has announced its intention to leave the ICC instead.

Three Yale professors, historian Timothy Snyder, Eastern Europe expert Marci Shore and fascism researcher Jason Stanley, have announced that they are leaving the US and moving to the University of Toronto, citing concerns over the political and social climate in the US. European academic institutions are also receiving an increasedumber of requests for positions from US scholars.

After a heated controversy in the Dutch parliament, the right-wing populist asylum and migration minister Marjolein Faber has survived a vote ofo confidence but has been sharply criticised from within the government. Faber is boycotting the awarding of a royal distinction to five former asylum volunteers by withholding her signature. Theational press comments.