“Super Thursday, and the stakes are high,” headlines the Independent, referring to today’s referendum on changing Britain’s electoral system. Proposed by the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in Britain's coalition government, as a compromise between the current first-past-the-post system and the party’s ultimate goal of proportional representation, enthusiasm is low and a No vote is expected. The Lib-Dem leader “Nick Clegg anxiously awaits the public's verdict on his party's long-cherished goal to scrap the first-past-the-post system,” reports the newspaper. A strong supporter of voting reform, it suggests a number of “Reasons to vote Yes,” including comments from readers and quotes from liberal bêtes noire such as far right leader Nick Griffin, Conservative grandee Norman Tebbit and strip club owner Peter Stringfellow, on why they oppose change.
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.