As a relatively cool Wednesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, the E.U. border agency Frontex fears a new wave of illegal migration into Europe.
From The Portugal News, a firefighter from Alfândega da Fé, Portugal is accused of starting 18 fires.
From El País, Spain deals with another invader, which has wings and six legs.
From France24, the battle against the coronavirus exposes cracks in France's health care system.
From RFI, France might extend its coronavirus measures in the overseas territories of Guiana and Mayotte.
From SwissInfo, the Swiss parliament calls on voters to reject a nationwide burka ban.
From ANSA, half a million Italian students start taking their high school final exams in "unique circumstances".
From the Malta Independent, Malta plans an "unprecedented" fireworks show to celebrate the reopening of its airports to commercial flights.
From Malta Today, the Maltese island of Gozo gets a new bishop.
From Total Slovenia News, how to give your Slovenian tourist voucher to a relative.
From Total Croatia News, another earthquake hits Zagreb, Croatia.
From Euractiv, the Croatian county of Međimurje declares a natural disaster after 50 million bees are poisoned.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the signers of the Prespa Agreement celebrate its two-year anniversary on social media.
From Balkan Insight, Croat and Bosniak parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina strike a deal on governing the city of Mostar.
From Ekathimerini, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou is briefed on Greece's coronavirus situation as its borders reopen.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Israel's Holocaust Memorial and finds the name of his aunt at the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations.
From Novinite, long lines continue at a border crossing between Bulgaria and Greece.
From The Sofia Globe, could the optimism of Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova be infectious?
From Radio Bulgaria, according to Health Minister Kiril Ananiev, Bulgarians with health insurance do not need to pay for PCR coronavirus tests.
From Romania-Insider, Romania's National Council for Combating Discrimination fines Google Romania for an "attack" on the country's biggest Orthodox cathedral. (If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media and Știrile Pro.)
From Russia Today, according to Interfax reports, the U.S. and Russia are considering a prisoner exchange.
From Sputnik International, the Russian military monitors the movements of a U.S. naval destroyer that entered the Black Sea.
From The Moscow Times, the "disinfection tunnel" that protects Russian President Putin from the coronavirus.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's Constitutional Court upholds a law against scare-mongering.
From Hungary Today, a statue of Winston Churchill in Budapest is defaced with words such as "nazi" , "racist" and "BLM". (Calling him a "nazi" is ironic, since in reality he led the U.K.'s fight against the real Nazis of Germany. If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)
From About Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban urges ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian region of Vojodina to vote in the country's elections.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak politician Peter Pellegrini announces his new party, into which he takes 10 parliamentcritters from his old one.
From Radio Prague, Czech President Miloš Zeman condemns the defacing of a statue of Winston Churchill in Prague.
From Polskie Radio, Polish President Duda and U.S. President Trump will meet at the White House on July 24th.
From the CPH Post, a roundup of news in Denmark, including all parents being given the right to bereavement leave.
From Deutsche Welle, over 600 people at a German slaughterhouse test positive for the coronavirus.
From Voice Of Europe, a left-wing extremist in Germany is arrested for allegedly making a fake right-wing death threat. (If you read German, read the story at Die Welt.)
From Breitbart, Arab clans in Duisburg, Germany threaten to kill any police officers who enter the area of Marxloh.
From the NL Times, a Dutch fishing vessel rescues 26 migrants in the North Sea.
From Dutch News, the Van Gogh Foundation buys the only letter written by painters Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin.
From VRT NWS, more than 400 people in Belgium have registered to test a potential coronavirus vaccine.
From The Brussels Times, Belgium's parliament votes to create a commission on the country's colonial past.
From EuroNews, E.U. leader Ursula von der Leyen announces a team that will hold a debate on racism in Europe, who are all white.
From the Express, Oxford University is set to remove a statue of U.K. imperialist Cecil Rhodes.
From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is involved in a car crash after a protester runs toward his convoy.
From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. civil servants are shocked and angered by Johnson's decision to merge the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland's two-meter social distancing rule is waived for pubs if customers stay for only 90 minutes.
From the Irish Examiner, gardaí seize 22 dogs at three locations in Ireland's County Cork.
From The Conservative Woman, a resounding "yes" for Winston Churchill's column in London's Parliament Square.
And from Snouts in the Trough, some inconvenient truths, some coming from former President Obama, about African Americans for BLM.
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