More than two decades after the fall of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian Parliament adopted, on Tuesday, the so-called Lustration Act. The bill is targets who participated in the repressive apparatus of the country's Communist Party (PCR) and states that "former leaders of the PCR, ministers, prosecutors, those in the secret police can no longer be appointed to public office," once the bill goes into effect, explains Bucharest daily Evenimentul Zilei. According to Adevărul leader writer Grigore Cartianu, this law is useless because it comes too late :
Adopting it now that it cannot produce significant results is akin to someone trying to commit suicide by jumping on the tracks after the train has already passed.
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.