"Government's about-turn on Tibet," headlines Politiken. Now that Obama is meeting the Dalai Lama, Danish authorities have suddenly decided to embrace a new position on Tibet. The daily recalls that as recently as December, "Denmark announced that it was opposed to Tibetan independence" in a declaration published on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit "to sweeten relations" with China, which protested against the Dalai Lama's visit to the country the previous spring. "Now however, the government has changed its tune," notes Politiken. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Møller has proposed that the Danish parliament call for a Sino-Tibetan dialogue "to establish Tibetan autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution, and in accordance with the principles of respect for human rights and freedom of religion."
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.