“Conservative Victor Orbán to govern Hungary as his party, Fidesz, crushes left wing opponents,” leads Gazeta Wyborcza. Having won more than two-thirds of the Hungarian parliament’s 386 seats, centre-right Fidesz now has the absolute majority required to bring amendments to the constitution, as well as electing a new president. Far-right Jobbik won 47 seats. Central Europe has not seen such landslide support since 1989, the Warsaw daily notes, with Orbán’s power now comparable to “the times of communist János Kádár”. Gazeta attributes the victory to eight years of socialist government marked by corruption, ineptitude and arrogance. Orbán, however, now faces the challenge of healing an ailing economy and rebuilding public faith in government.
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.