Their friends in the press, especially in the Prisa group which owns, among other organs, Spain's best-selling newspaper, El Pais, are in full investigative cry.
Nor is it surprising that Russia's best-selling newspaper is still the doggedly unpolemical weekly Argumenti i Fakti, which became prominent under Mikhail Gorbachev, and once had a world-record circulation touching 34m.
According to Britain's biggest sellingnewspaper, The Sun, the man it urged millions of Britons to vote for at the last election is threatening to destroy the country's economy by taking it into the single European currency.