The great British taxpayer is under attack again, clamours The Daily Mail, as the UK government forks out “£1million for a jail in… Nigeria”. The “comfortable” prison is destined to house 400 Nigerian inmates incarcerated in British prisons who cannot be deported to complete their sentences. “Jails in Nigeria,” the London daily complains, “are considered so rough that any prisoner (…) could oppose their removal on human rights grounds.” The UK government hopes that by upgrading a Nigerian prison to British standards, the prisoners could then be repatriated. While Lin Homer, the UK Border agency chief, has said the plan would save taxpayers' money, pressure group TaxPayers' Alliance calls it an “an absolute scandal”. Elsewhere, human rights groups say current conditions in Nigerian prisons are “appalling”, with more than 50% of prisoners still awaiting trial – “some for up to ten years.”
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.