Having made its way past anti-nuclear demonstrators skirmishing with police, the radioactive waste convoy which left France on 5 November has finally arrived at a temporary storage site in Gorleben, Germany. Süddeutsche Zeitung reveals that in future, "Nuclear waste will be sent to Russia." The Munich daily reports that Moscow and Berlin are about to conclude an agreement for the shipment of 18 “Castor” containers in three convoys. The nuclear waste which has been stored since 2005 in a former salt mine in Lower- Saxony is to be transferred to Mayak in the southern Urals. Germany’s Green Party, which has seen its approval ratings soar in the wake of recent anti-nuclear protests in the country, has announced that the government is intent on cutting costs at the expense of safety.
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.