One minute after midnight on Saturday, Italy suspended the Schengen Agreement, bringing back border controls at airports and ports, reports the Corriere della Sera. This disposition is valid until July 15 and is part of security measures implemented for the G8 meeting, July 8-10 in L’Aquila.
Over 15,000 police officers are involved in the operation. The government claims it needs to prevent violent groups from infiltrating otherwise peaceful protests and expunge memories of what happened in Genoa in 2001, where damage to property and clashes between police and "black bloc" anti-globalisation groups led to the killing of Carlo Giuliani, a 23-year-old demonstrator, and a violent police raid on the Diaz school with 61 injured.
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.