"In 2010, 43 women were killed by domestic violence in Portugal." Público sounds the alarm and devotes its front page to a list of the names of women killed by their partners (for the most part) or former partners last year. Commenting on the surge in the number of deaths, an increase of 29 over 2009, the newspaper describes the scale of the phenomenon as "devastating," and remarks on the contrast with neighbouring Spain – 71 deaths in a population 4.7 times greater – where the drive to end what is considered to be a national scourge resulted in the adoption of a specific law in 2004. Público notes that the existence of shelters and special police units has not been sufficient to halt the violence and emphasises the fact that "this legacy" of the past "has now been passed on to a new generation:” most of the victims were less than 40 years old.
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.