Frankfurter Rundschau, 8 September 2010
"Europe is glowing" announces Frankfurter Rundschau. The front page of the daily features a nighttime satellite photograph showing the spread of illumination over the entire continent, which is only interrupted in Slovenia. In 2007 and 2010, the country of two million inhabitants introduced ground-breaking legislation to curb light pollution. To prevent artificial lighting from reaching the horizon, FR explains that the government in Ljubljana has imposed a ban on light fixtures that illuminate the sky -- in particular sky beamer searchlights which can be visible over long distances. It has also progressively replaced white-light street lamps with lower intensity yellow-light fixtures.
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.