Adevărul reports that European People's Party MEP László Tőkés, who is credited as "the man who sparked the 1989 revolution," has been voted in as one of the European Parliament's 14 vice-presidents. The savage response to demonstrations to prevent Tőkés from being transferred from his parish in Timisoara was one of the key factors which led to the downfall of the Ceauşescu regime. Tőkés, a Protestant pastor and the President of the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania, will take over the vice-president's post vacated by Pál Schmitt, who was elected Speaker of the National Assemby of Hungary on 14 May.
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.