"Ceausescu’s DNA!" headlines Adevărul. More than 20 years after their execution, the remains of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were exhumed on 21 July in Bucharest. The initiative to confirm the identity of the bodies of the dictator and his wife “is a victory for the perseverance of two men, their son Valentin, and their son-in-law Mircea Oprean,” explains the daily. The state’s reluctance to reveal details of exactly what happened in December 1989 has prompted comparisons between the Ceauşescus and the family of Tsar Nicolas II who were executed by the Bolsheviks. “Like the Romanov family, the Ceauşescus were condemned by an ad-hoc trial and summarily executed on Christmas day in a procedure,” Adevărul remarks, “that had all the sophistication of an African tribal court.”
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.