ABC, 23 June 2010
“Government solitary in its labour reform”, announces ABC one day after the labour reform was passed in the Chamber of Deputies, thanks to the abstention of the opposition. Amongst the most heavily criticised reforms are the reduction in redundancy pay and the simplification of contracts, purportedly to promote employment, but which may make it easier to sack employees. The conservative daily considers that Prime minister José Luis Zapatero has introduced “an insufficient reform (...) clouded in incertainty" without "social or political support" and "presented in a hurry as a requirement of the European Union".
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.