“Germany has a new government,” announces the Gazeta Wyborcza headline. The news is especially welcome in Warsaw because the agreement signed by the new coalition pledges ”to ensure that Polish-German cooperation will contribute to a renewed drive to develop Europe." As the report in the liberal daily explains: "Never before have German politicians mentioned relations with Poland in a document of such a high status." According to the coalition agreement, the new cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel will strive to reactivate the Weimar Triangle, a forum of Polish-German-French cooperation.
For one Polish diplomat who wished to remain unnamed "this is an unprecedented initiative, which shows how much Berlin values greater cooperation with Warsaw." Bartosz T. Wieliński, the daily's Berlin correspondent, insists that progress can now be made: "Once the new German government has been formed, Berlin and Warsaw should set aside historical disputes and focus on Europe together." Even if they have different views on relations with Russia or the US, these issues should not affect their cooperation within the European Union. "Given that Germany is the largest state of the old Europe and Poland the largest state of the new Europe," the Polish-German axis should play a key role in the drive to motivate the wider European community, believes Wieliński.
The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies. 
Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either? 
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.