Jarosław Kaczyński is "PM of the 4th Republic in political exile", headlines Polska The Times. According to the Warsaw daily, the leader of Poland's main opposition the Law and Justice party (PiS), "has gone to war” as his country is poised to take the head of EU’s rotating presidency. In a move that triggers this autumn’s parliamentary election campaign, Kaczyński is seeking to “delegitimize government and president". Polska The Times adds that he “either doesn’t appear at major debates in the parliament, or conspicuously leaves just after speaking, he has refused an invitation to a National Security Council.” Having openly declared that he will never shake hands with President Komorowski, the PiS leader has stated that the victims of the Smoleńsk crash of 10 April 2010, in which his twin brother President Lech Kaczyński was killed, were "betrayed at the break of dawn". He is "[d]estroying the credibility of state institutions, he undermines democracy", complains political scientist Kazimierz Kik to the Warsaw daily.
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.