Pravda, 18 June 2010
Slovakia’s right wing, which won the recent general election, is dragging its feet on the euro rescue plan, reports Pravda. According to SDKÚ-DS (Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party) leader Iveta Radičová, who is likely to be the country’s next prime minister, the plan "is just a smokescreen to satisfy the market for the time being, and it goes to show that countries can go on behaving irresponsibly”. The plan won’t take effect unless it is ratified by every country in the eurozone.
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.