The Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders took a closer look at the results of the European Parliament elections. He finds there's reason to believe the Europeans aren't actually partying like it's 1933.

That would be the analysis of former U.S. diplomat Gary Sick.

The Globe and Mail had one article on Saturday saying the worst of the recession might be over.

And on Sunday night? An article suggesting the economic rollercoaster is just climbing up before going into another dive.

In voting for the European Parliament, citizens punished left-leaning parties, with conservative -- and in some cases, disturbingly far-right parties -- making gains as voter turnout came in between 43 and 44 per cent.

Toronto author Anna Porter revisited her birth country of Hungary recently to explore the disturbing signs of rising right-wing extremism there, part of a book she is writing on Europe since the rusting of the Iron Curtain.

Saturday, June 6 marks the 65th anniversary of D Day, the storming of the beaches of Normandy to push the Germans out of France.

Was it also a time of looting and sexual assault by some Allied troops as well as stoic heroism?

The BBC looks at the issues raised by new books: D Day, by Anthony Beevor and Liberation, The Bitter Road to Freedom, by William Hitchcock.