“Europe of the excluded,” headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, bewailing the Franco-German decision to include eurozone members only at the March 11 summit in Brussels where eurozone reform as well as the Competitiveness Pact will be up for discussion. Previously, Berlin and Paris had suggested observer status for countries like Poland, but this U-turn, according to the Warsaw daily, means “marginalisation” and “exclusion” from crisis management for those remaining outside the common currency area. This is particularly painful for Poland which pushed hard to be present, even hinting at a contribution to the European Financial Stability Fund. “Konrad Adenauer, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman convinced the world that Europe without borders could be safe. Today we learn that only Europe behind closed doors is safe”, complains the daily in its editorial.
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.