“Exhumation in Valle de los Caídos ruled out,” headlines ABC on the Spanish national holiday, referring to the Franco-built site near Madrid which hosts the dictator's tomb as well as the remains of close to 40,000 combatants from either side of the Spanish Civil War. The daily reports that on 6 September a team of forensic scientists sent by the government analysed the remains – “without stirring a single bone” – concluding that it was impossible to identify the bodies owing to their poor state of preservation. The scientists were sent at the request of several families of republican soldiers invoking the 2007 Historical Memory Law, which allows for the identification of the remains of republican soldiers who died in the war and the honouring of their memory. The law has sparked right-wing protests and intense political debate in Spain, with the conservative ABC deploring the recent initiative undertaken “without a court order” and “due transparency”.
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.