One very important tourist emblem of Belgium - the Atomium, reopened on Monday its doors to the public. The event was celebrated at a small ceremony that took place at the foot of the famous 62-year-old construction.

Twitter would be welcome to move to France should the social media platform face an adverse operating environment in the US, French junior digital affairs minister Cedric O said in an interview with Radio J on Sunday.

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez will this week seek parliament's approval to extend the state of emergency one final time, which would keep the coronavirus lockdown in place until 21 June. The current emergency is set to expire on 7 June. According to Sanchez, one last two-week extension was required in order to get his hard-hit nation safely out of confinement.

Many of Italy’s most famous cultural sites have started to reopen after being closed for more than three months, with safety measures including temperature checks and mandatory face masks.

Malta will reopen its airport to passenger flights on 1 July in order to restart tourism brought to a halt during the Covid-19 pandemic, PM Robert Abela said on Sunday. Tourism accounts for almost a quarter of Malta's economy and hoteliers have been pressing the government to reopen the airport or risk mass unemployment.

From this Pentecost weekend Belgians can again travel to neighbour countries to visit family or for shopping. This possibility was banned as a non-essential movement due to the coronavirus lockdown since March 20. 

Sunday afternoon, the forecourt square of the iconic Paris Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris has been reopened to the public and the barriers removed for the first time since the ravaging fire on the night of 15April last year. It was authorised by order of the Police Prefect following the favorable notice from the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency.

Germany and the European Commission have reached agreement on a giant Berlin-funded rescue plan for coronavirus-hit Lufthansa, a Commission spokeswoman and a source close to the negotiations said Friday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declined an invitation from the US President Donald Trump to the upcoming G7 summit "given the overall pandemic situation," a government spokesman said on Saturday.

The Spanish government approved on Friday the creation of a minimum income worth €462 ($514) a month for the poorest, news wires reported. “Today is a historic day for our democracy,” Deputy PM Pablo Iglesias, leader of the leftist Unidas Podemos, said at a press conference.  Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero called the guaranteed minimum income scheme “a giant step in the fight against inequality in our country.”