ABC, 12 August 2010
"King calls Mohammed VI in the wake of Moroccan pressure on border" at Ceuta and Melilla. ABC reports that Spain’s Juan Carlos I and his opposite number in Rabat want to prevent "misunderstandings" from affecting good relations between their two countries. According to the daily, the telephone conversation marked the end of a minor diplomatic crisis, which had been prompted by a number of clashes between Spanish police and Moroccan citizens on the borders of two Spanish enclaves located in Moroccan territory. At the same time, ABC notes that the economic crisis has coincided with a "fresh wave of incoming pateras" or barely seaworthy boats used by asylum seekers to land on the Spanish coast.
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.