Rarely has an academic thesis been read by such a wide audience. In the wake of last week’s revelations that the German Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, plagiarised a large part of his doctoral thesis on constitutional law, large numbers of Germans have been searching to find further pasted text in the document. The results of their efforts are presented in the form of a diagram on the front page of Frankfurter Rundschau, which leads with the headline “Dr. G.’s guide to fiddling.“ The daily explains that the internet community has found confirmed instances of plagiarism on 270 of the 407 pages of the thesis, the equivalent of 68.7% of the text. The minister, who has admitted that he was in serious breach of the rules, gave up his title of “Doctor” on 21 February, but has refused to resign from the German cabinet. In the wake of controversy over his management of the German military, the scandal over his thesis comes as another blow to the high-profile minister who was hoping to succeed Angela Merkel.
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.