"UN roundly condemns Belgian asylum policy,” headlines De Standaard. With nearly 7,000 asylum-seekers still homeless in Belgium, and the emergency housing the government promised for 4,000 of them yet to materialise, Belgium is accues of dragging its feet in a humanitarian crisis already denounced weeks ago by the UN. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is now demanding the government come up with a solution without further ado, and is counting on the population to get involved, explains the Belgian daily. "Ten years ago, Belgium was capable of handling over 40,000 applications for asylum [per year], now it can’t even accommodate half as many,” denounces a UN spokesperson quoted by the paper. The Belgian Secretary of State for Social Integration is scheduled to meet with the ministers concerned and the mayors of Brussels to discuss the matter on 30 November.
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.