"I killed for the Revolution," headlines România liberă, publishing a statement by former international sharpshooting champion, Corneliu Stoica, on his role in the revolution of 1989. Nearly 21 years after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s communist regime, the civil society group "21 December 1989" has published some of the statements made to magistrates investigating the deaths of 1,200 demonstrators who died after 22 December. Stoica affirmed that under instructions from Dan Iosif, a close associate of revolutionary leader Ion Iliescu, he shot several gunmen who opened fire on demonstrators on 22 December, the day Ceauşescu fled Bucharest. România liberă notes that his testimony appears to confirm the theory of a coup d’état ordered by Iliescu and Iosif.
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.