On 8 July, Nadia Comaneci – the first ever gymnast to obtain a perfect score of 10, in the 1976 Olympics – inaugurated a new clinic that will bear her name in Bucharest, reports Cotidianul. According to the daily, the former champion financed the project "with funds from her advertising contracts." The idea for the clinic, which was built by convicts in one of Bucharest's prisons, was inspired by a priest who is close to the 48-year-old Romanian-American. The facility will provide free medical and counselling services to the city's orphans and street children.
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.