“The Spanish senate to debate in five languages”, leads Madrid daily El Mundo. The ruling socialist party along with regional nationalists voted to use all the country’s official languages – Spanish/Castillian, Catalan, Basque, Gallician and Valencian in parliament’s second chamber. The daily ironically that the simultaneous translation service to be put in place will be "just like the one in the UN or the European Parliament". Regional nationalists have hailed the initiative as part of “democratic normality” but opposition Popular Party (PP) has described it as “absolutely foolish” and “ridiculous on the international scene (...) with senators wearing earphones to understand each other in a chamber where everybody speaks the same language”.
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.