Four French dailies capture the mood with their headlines: "Capitulation" declares Libération, "At last", says L' Humanité, "Milosevic cracks" writes Le Parisien and France-Soir calls the agreement a "Technical KO"

Under the headline "Peace - perhaps" , Berlin's Tageszeitung thinks it is understandable that euphoria should be limited, saying the command structure of a peacekeeping force remains the stumbling block. The paper says the present peace plan also contains "murky formulae".

The Paris-based International Herald Tribune notes that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair reacted "warily" to the news from Belgrade.

Barcelona's La Vanguardia says such a reaction is logical since, it says, it is one thing to accept the plan, and another to carry it out, and it is in this area that lingering doubts are preventing the allies from declaring a ceasefire. The paper also notes that President Milosevic may still try to save face by saying the plan confirms Yugoslavia's sovereignty.

Vienna's Der Standard takes a somewhat original stance in saying that it is Mr Milosevic who is helping Nato to save face. The paper believes the Yugoslav president knows Nato preferred to extricate itself from the Kosovo expedition sooner rather than later.

Die Presse, another Vienna daily, asks why the Serbs did not realise 10 weeks ago that the day of defeat was bound to come. Milan's Corriere della Sera quotes the exiled Albanian writer Ismail Kadare as saying he dreams of a protectorate for Kosovo, but without the Russians, whom he says, are too friendly with the Serbs.

La Libre Belgique says one of the most important lessons from the last 10 weeks is that Europe must now establish a security force to take direct action on European soil without having to defer permanently to the United States' military might.