Azerbaijan
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The front page: 20 December 2012
20 December 201228PresseuropEl Mundo, Evenimentul zilei, Svenska Dagbladet & 4 others -
The front page: 3 September 2012
3 September 201227PresseuropCinco Días, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland & 5 others -
Eurovision 2012: Baku intent on buying respectability
25 May 20128020 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Eurovision: Rambo Amadeus, the cliché slayer
18 May 2012261 Tportal Zagreb -
Eastern Partnership: The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111061 Polityka Warsaw -
Eastern Partnership: A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011147 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Diplomacy: 5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 201127PresseuropEl País -
Natural Gas: Moscow scores against Brussels again
12 October 201032PresseuropLa Tribune -
Europe / Asia: Stalin’s dream to come true
7 October 201012PresseuropRomânia libera -
Romania: White Stream II aims to sideline Nabucco
15 April 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Editorial: All quiet on the Eastern front
11 December 2009Presseurop -
Romania: Torn between two pipelines
2 October 2009PresseuropRomânia libera -
Gas: All pipelines lead to Ankara
30 September 200925 Die Zeit Hamburg
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country that is far from being a model democracy. An Estonian journalist takes a critical look at the deferential treatment enjoyed by the regime in Baku. 
The joyfully subversive turbo-funk singer will represent Montenegro at this year’s Eurovision with “Euro neuro” — a humorous and highly accurate enumeration of clichés about the Balkans and their relationship with the EU. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project. 
Ankara is the neighbour Europeans still won’t let into their club. And yet the country behind the Bosporus is soon to become the communication hub for energy supplies bound for Europe. Die Zeit doubts the EU can go on snubbing the Turks indefinitely.