Faced with the lingering menace of anti-Semitism and to ease their integration, many French Jewish families opted to Frenchify their family names in the aftermath of World War II. So Rubinsteins Gallicised to Raimbauds, Rozenkopfs became Rosents, Wolkowiczes Volcots and so on. “Now, many of their children are searching for their roots and trying to ‘recover’ their original name,” reports Libération. In a class action brought by an association called La force du nom (The Power of the Name), they have just stated their case before the Council of State, the highest administrative court in the land. “Though any foreigner can Frenchify his name, the reverse is prohibited,” observes the paper. In the US, in contrast, the right to reclaim one’s name has been in force “for several decades now”.
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.