El País, 7 November 2010
"I had to decide if we were going to assassinate the leadership of ETA, and I said no. I am not sure that I made the right choice”. El País headlines with a quote from a long interview with former socialist prime minister Felipe González, who speaks of "a once in a lifetime opportunity to order the liquidation of the entire leadership” of the Basque terrorist organisation at a secret meeting in France at the end of the 1980s – a period marked by a particularly violent ETA campaign. El Mundo interprets this remark as an implicit acknowledgement of the ex-PM’s commanding role in the “dirty war" waged against ETA by the secret paramilitary GAL organisation, whose existence was revealed by the conservative daily in the early 1990s.
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.