Handelsblatt, 28 June 2010
It’s “the new German economic miracle”, leads Handelsblatt, and “optimism is definitely back”. “The economy’s main systems are all ‘go’,” reports the German daily: first-quarter exports are up 10.3% on 2009, businesses are announcing record profits and, over on the job market, “we’ve gone from fire to hire".
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.