For this week’s in-house Daily, Markus Hippi and Carlota Rebelo discuss differing memories of the Second World War across Europe; republicans eye a historic win in Northern Ireland; and the Eurovision Song Contest with special guest and superfan Fernando Augusto Pacheco. Plus: Sergiy Petukhov reflects on the war in Ukraine ahead of Russia’s ‘Victory Day’ and Monocle’s Europe editor-at-large Ed Stocker speaks to a Ukrainian refugee in Berlin.

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