“Ruby: Berlusconi on trial,” leads La Repubblica, in the wake of a ruling by a Milan judge that the head of state should be sent straight to trial without committal proceedings. The judge believes that there was sufficient evidence to prosecute him for paying underage prostitute Karima El-Mahroug, a.k.a Ruby Heartstealer for sexual services, and pressuring Milan’s police chief to release her when she was arrested for theft last May. Given the “very serious” charges faced by the Italian premier, the director of the left-wing daily Ezio Mauro argues that the only possible solution to the political crisis prompted by the trial, which will open on 6 April, will be for Italy’s citizens “to go to the polls.” In the Corriere della Sera conservative columnist Sergio Romano insists that on the contrary, Berlusconi should remain in office while he goes on trial so that the fate of his government “is not decided in a court room” and to show “that politics is not a matter for the courts, but for parliaments and polling stations.”
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.