Lidové noviny , 14 July 2010
"Nečas' fifteen cheapskates" have made the front page of Lidové Noviny. Petr Nečas centre-right coalition government which came to power on July 13, a month and a half after the legislative elections, has taken up the challenge of reducing the deficit to under 3% of GDP in 2013 and fully balancing the budget by 2016. Among the austerity measures: a 10% cut in public sector salaries (teachers included), reduction in social-services benefits for the poor, shortened maternity leave and price hikes for medical care.
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.