Even before the announcement that President Christian Wulff was resigning, the German press was describing today, February 17, as "historic". Following a request to have his immunity lifted from a prosecutor who wants to investigate him on corruption charges, the head of state explained that he was no longer able to carry out his purely ceremonial duties.
The press notes that, two years after the resignation of his predecessor, Horst Köhler, in May 2010, Wulff is the second president supported by Angela Merkel to leave office. The Süddeutsche Zeitung asks -
Is Germany facing a crisis of state when two presidents resign in the space of two years?... The non-partisan office risks beng discredited in the dispute between the political parties. Angela Merkel, her coalition and her government now have the task of finding a new president who will finally serve the country and its constitution honourably.
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.