“Presidency in nappies,” quips Dziennik Gazeta Prawna lamenting delays in preparations ahead of Poland’s EU presidency which begins in 100 days (on July 1). The Foreign Ministry has not selected a company responsible for arranging conferences nor completed the recruitment of translators, liaisons officers, logistics and diplomatic protocol experts. What’s more, the plan for transporting 10,000 EU officials who will come to Poland, as well as the security system, are not yet ready. “When Belgium, France or Sweden were getting ready for their presidencies, all technical matters had been arranged six months before the ‘zero hour’, “ complains political scientist Grzegorz Kostrzewa-Zorbas quoted by the Warsaw daily. Even though the Foreign Ministry is confident everything will be ready for July 1, this may not be so easy after all. According to a recent report by the Supreme Audit Office (NIK), over the last year the Ministry has changed nearly 30% of the officials dealing with preparations for the presidency.
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.