"Presidency has violated the law protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources," headlines Le Monde, announcing its intention to file formal charges in order to ensure that "the freedom of the press will be strictly respected". The daily claims that the government's counter-espionage services were called in to identify the source – in this case, a highly-placed official – who was the informant for one of its journalists covering the Woerth-Bettencourt affair. "To simply ignore the law was the solution envisioned by the Sarkozy administration to contain the blaze. But just like a wildfire, every day, or nearly so, it just gets bigger. It becomes rather convenient to accuse reporters of starting the fires", reads the editorial of Le Monde.
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.