While most front pages in the French press are devoted to the latest developments in the Sarkozy/Bruni “rumours scandal”, Le Soir is asking questions about the way the presidential couple is attempting to quash the story of their alleged infidelities. “At the same time that the regional elections showed a country in disarray, the president was mobilising counter-intelligence services to investigate the source of malicious gossip that the French public could not care less about. Was that really the top priority? The fact that France is suffering is certainly not just a rumour”. Le Soir also alludes to the fact that the Journal du Dimanche – the newspaper whose website first broke the rumours – is now toeing the line, and that a preliminary investigation has already been opened on the issue. "What an impressive mobilisation of resources!" writes the Belgian daily. "Clearly, when it comes to his private life, Nicolas Sarkozy loses all sense of proportion".
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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.