Libération, 5 July 2010
"The screw tightens," observes Libération, announcing the resignation of two members of the government who had misused public funds. For the Paris daily, the heads of the Secretary of State of Cooperation and the Secretary of State for the Greater Paris region rolled in order to save that of Eric Woerth. Implicated in the affairs of alleged tax-dodging billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, the Minister of Labour is the key architect of the delicate proposal of retirement reform, a project of great importance to Nicolas Sarkozy, which is to be presented to the parliament next September.
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.