“Corruption catwalk”, leads El Mundo one day after the biggest corruption case in the history of Spain opened. 95 defendants in the so-called "Malaya case" paraded down to the court of the southern city of Málaga, among them two former mayors and 15 councillors of Marbella’s town council. The accused allegedly ran the jetset resort on a cash-for-votes basis, pulling in €670m in bribes and pilfering municipal funds over a three year period. At the centre of the trial is council employee Juan Antonio Roca, known as Marbella's “Mr Big”. According to court documents, Roca received over €30m in bribes from building developers responsible for concreting over the once pleasant resort. The trial could drag on for over a year, while the accused face sentences from ten to up to thirty-five years.
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.