"Country shows its true colours in WikiLeaks!" headlines Revista 22, as revelations about the hidden side of American-Romanian relations reach Bucharest. What with "the saga of Mircea Geoana" – the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and current President of the Senate, who considers himself to be "the best politician" in the country and who "uses a Romanian business magnate’s private jet to travel to Moscow" – and the files implicating Adrian Nastase (PSD) in a corruption scandal, the "cablegate on the Dâmboviţa" [the river running through Bucharest] "paints a savage portrait and leaves a bitter taste," affirms the Bucharest weekly. "What a shower! What stupidity! What corruption! The real Romania is a state that has been divided up by a handful of oligarchs who control banking and the media, and politicians for whom the national interest is no more than a bargaining chip!"
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.