Dan Michaels
Dan Michaels is a staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal. After covering Central & Eastern Europe, focusing on business, politics and society, he settled in Paris, where he covers the global airline, aviation and aerospace industries, with a particular focus on Europe.
Updated: 13 May 2011
Often considered too low-brow, the Eurovision song contest, which unfurls this Saturday 14 May, is increasingly appreciated by European academy, who glean in its antics the emergence of a "New Europe".