Trouw, 16 November 2010
"Lenient sanctions for Party for Freedom (PVV) MP to avoid weakening government," headlines Trouw. Party leader Geert Wilders has decided not to expel Eric Lucassen from the PVV in the wake of revelations of his involvement in an a 2002 sexual abuse scandal. However, Lucassen will no longer be the party’s spokesman on defence and neighbourhood policy. Lucassen, who is also accused of violence and intimidation by his former neighbours in Haarlem, remains essential to the government's wafer-thin majority of 76 (which includes 24 PVV MPs) in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
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.