“Europe for Poczobut” headlines Gazeta Wyborcza a day after the Warsaw daily’s Belarusian correspondent and Belarusian opposition activist Andrzej Poczobut was formally indicted for insulting and slandering President Alexander Lukashenko. Arrested 38 days ago, Poczobut faces up to four years in prison. Echoing EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton and European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek, MEPs have called on the Minsk regime to drop the charges and release him. The Belarusian authorities have so far refused to yield either to release Poczobut on bail or on a personal guarantee from 40 people. “Lawlessness dressed in prosecutor’s and judge’s robes remains lawlessness just the same… It is only more hypocritical and perverse”, concludes Gazeta Wyborcza’s leader.
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.