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Democracy for sale? Why the EU must break with Serbia's Vučić | The recent student-led mass protests in Serbia have shown the EU’s cooperation with the country's president Aleksandar Vučić to be deeply misguided. The EU must realise that Vučić can no longer offer stability. Vučić has enjoyed relative support from the European Union since he came to power in 2014. Criticism of his r... | Luke Bacigalupo | If the EU stands for democracy rather than just for lithium, it must take a new position in Serbia soon. In the wake of student-led mass protests, support for president Vučić is no longer support for stability if it ever was, writes political analyst Luke Bacigalupo from Belgrade. | [
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-04-02T12:31:01.434Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/are778ca53 |
How the EU’s competitiveness agenda ignores Europe’s true strength | Last year was the hottest year on record. In fact, every year for the past 10 years has been a record-breaking year, a not-so-subtle reminder to all of us that climate change is by no means under control. The vast majority of Europeans agree that environmental issues have a direct effect on their daily life and their h... | Social Platform, | We can’t boost our competitiveness without future-proofing our foundations. Securing a just transition to fair, sustainable societies is essential, but noticeably lacking in the EU Commission’s recent proposals. | [] | * | 2025-04-01T12:35:42.217Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar97c2442c |
What would it take for euro to dethrone king US dollar? | Could the euro finally be pushed to rival the dollar as a global reserve currency? Until recently , that seemed a distant prospect. But US president Donald Trump’s trade aggression has already wiped out trillions from stock markets in recent weeks, sending the dollar lower against nearly all major currencies as investo... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | As Trump ramps up his trade war, two economists outline how Europe could finally turn the euro into a global currency. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-04-01T09:29:00.526Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arbbd7567a |
Why the UN aid summit is the EU's best shot at financial justice | Counterintuitive as it may seem, a crumbling world order offers the EU a golden opportunity to champion justice, multilateralism, and the fight against inequality. Last month’s public commitment in this direction by EU leaders in their exchange with UN secretary-general António Guterres is a wise move . But so far, the... | In these troubled times, EU countries must move from words to action. | The upcoming UN summit in Seville, Spain, is a pivotal moment for the EU to fight extreme wealth concentration and the climate crisis burning our futures. | [
"Green Economy",
"Opinion"
] | green-economy | 2025-04-01T08:41:46.704Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar6f070fa5 |
When home turns unsafe: war toll on Ukrainian women | Last week, severe bombardment of Kyiv continued despite talks of ceasefires. By the following morning, the news of three more lives tragically lost — a five-year-old girl, her father, and an 80-year-old woman— had spread across a city already battered by years of war. Streets covered with debris, neighbours going throu... | Ulla Müller | A pause in fighting may spare families from the immediate horrors of war. Yet attacks are only part of Ukraine’s crisis: If the weapons were silenced tomorrow, the psychological and social damage could remain for generations. | [
"Ukraine",
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] | ukraine | 2025-03-31T11:02:27.805Z | https://euobserver.com/ukraine/ar5f874c89 |
Serbia's alarming path toward media suppression | Following last weekend’s historic protests, the Serbian government has intensified its crackdown on independent media, using state-backed disinformation, intimidation tactics, and commercial pressure to undermine journalistic integrity. Independent outlets have been directly targeted by a government-led smear campaig... | N1 Serbia | Instead of engaging in democratic dialogue, the Serbian authorities have responded with intimidation, legal threats, and open hostility toward independent journalists. President Aleksandar Vučić has labelled independent media and their reporters as enemies of the state and accused them of criminal activity — without ev... | [
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-28T11:02:19.857Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ardd7db9e1 |
Why EU's 'suspend, not lift' Syria sanctions policy will backfire | You have probably read that last week European states wanted to help Syrians rebuild their country after the fall of the Assad regime, generously throwing a few billion euros to address skyrocketing humanitarian needs. What you may not have heard, however, is that the EU 27 have actually decided to let Syria down, at t... | Crisis Action | By deciding to suspend rather than lift sanctions on Syria, Europe is losing a historical opportunity to help stabilise the Middle East. There is a fundamental difference between "suspending" and "lifting" sanctions — and European businesses will not invest in bridges, hospitals and schools if sanctions are not lifted. | [
"EU & the World",
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] | * | 2025-03-27T15:15:12.400Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar9499a187 |
Enough red flags have been ignored, EU must reconsider Rwanda relations | The European Union’s response to the armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has not matched the rapid advance of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group. But the March 17 targeted sanctions give hope that Europe is finally waking up to the seriousness of the abuses taking place, Rwanda’s role, and the EU’... | Human Rights Watch | The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, should pause disbursement of any further European Peace Facililty funds to Rwanda until safeguards, including genuine vetting of troops deployed, are met, and commanders and troops who served in Congo are excluded from EU-funded operations, write Human Rights Watch. | [
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] | eu-political | 2025-03-27T11:44:32.121Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar210f528c |
Prepare a 72-hour crisis survival kit for citizens, EU tells capitals | EU governments will be expected to develop a 72-hour survival kit for citizens to face new crises, the European Commission said on Wednesday (26 March), as it set out plans for EU wide stockpiling strategy for food and medical supplies. The proposal is part of the Commission’s Preparedness Union Strategy which also cal... | Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya. | EU governments will be expected to develop a 72-hour survival kit for citizens to face new crises, the European Commission said on Wednesday — as it set out plans for EU wide stockpiling strategy for food and medical supplies. | [
"EU & the World",
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-26T15:37:24.741Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar06978a57 |
Why it's time for Norway and Iceland to join EU | The United States' potential retreat from its role as Europe’s security guarantor, combined with growing assertiveness toward its allies, poses existential geopolitical challenges for Europe — beyond the immediate question of defending against Russian aggression. Washington’s territorial ambitions in the Arctic, direct... | German Marshall Fund of the United States | Iceland and Norway are deeply integrated into the EU’s internal market through the European Economic Area and the Schengen zone, yet formally outside the Union. Both have a history of EU candidacy. Both face a hostile Russia and in increasingly hostile US. | [
"EU & the World",
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-26T11:54:48.981Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar4eed4e61 |
Wars, inequality, neoliberalism: the challenges facing the Ukrainian Left | Andrii has arranged to meet me in a bar in Pozniaky, a district of Kyiv on the so-called 'left bank' of the Dnieper, the river that flows through the Ukrainian capital. The right bank is home to the historical and political centre, the most chic and fashionable neighbourhoods, and the seat of government. Andrii is a 30... | is a journalist, editor and translator at | What does it mean to be leftwing and find yourself facing an invasion that you didn’t choose or want, that forces you to revise your principles, while continuing to defend a more just society? A discussion with activists on the Ukrainian Left. | [
"Ukraine"
] | ukraine | 2025-03-26T09:25:27.030Z | https://euobserver.com/ukraine/ar24d7ddd2 |
Trump trade war could trigger financial collapse, economists tell EU | The chaos unleashed by US president Trump’s haphazard foreign policy and flurry of tariff announcements is upending the rules of global trade. Spare a thought for Maroš Šefčovič, the EU’s trade chief who is traveling to Beijing this week for trade negotiations but had to squeeze in a last-minute detour to Washington to... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | Economists warned the European Parliament that Trump’s aggressive trade tariffs could spiral into broader financial and monetary conflict — urging the EU to prepare for a potential ‘trade armageddon.’
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-25T17:16:01.361Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar70dd1315 |
From dog racers to PM: US second lady unwelcome in Greenland | Even the dog race the second lady is to see has distanced itself from her, amid a growing backlash against the Trump administration's latest trip to Greenland. "We did not invite them [but] ... they may attend as spectators," the organisers of Greenland's top sled-dog race, Avannaata Qimussersua, told the New York Time... | Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. | Even the dog race the US second lady is to see has distanced itself from her, amid a growing backlash against the Trump administration's latest trip to Greenland. | [
"EU & the World",
"Nordics"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-24T17:06:27.995Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar03846564 |
The case for splitting Ukraine's critical minerals three ways: US, Ukraine and EU | To date, the EU and US approaches to striking a deal with Ukraine for access to their critical minerals have been starkly different. The Trump administration started by trying to pressure the beleaguered state into an agreement as payback for US support in the war with Russia. It’s now stalling since a clash between pr... | Chatham House | Rather than competing for access to Ukraine’s minerals, the US and EU should pursue a tripartite deal. A joint deal would mean the US wasn’t solely responsible for providing security guarantees to Kyiv, while the EU is far more invested in Ukraine’s long-term economic development. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy",
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-24T11:15:06.934Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arf019c50d |
Why defunding NGOs would lock in a European 'Greenwash' Deal | The Strasbourg vote on defunding green NGOs in May will be more than a classic far-right free speech chiller. It certainly leans into the Trump playbook — hijacking public revulsion at the EU’s democratic deficit, and misdirecting it toward the smouldering embers of our checks and balances. But the EPP’s wide-eyed fing... | writes about the environment for the Guardian, Open Democracy, Equal Times and others. He was formerly the | Environmental NGOs — understaffed, underpaid and undervalued — are the only actors fighting back to accelerate the green transition. A bonfire of their budgets, led by the same politicians that parrot industry talking points about red tape, administrative burden and competitiveness, would only help to cynically railroa... | [
"EU Political",
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] | eu-political | 2025-03-21T11:02:36.005Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar5f89f3a7 |
A breakdown of how the EU migration crackdown isn't working | In 2024, European leaders took credit for a drop in irregular migration. At an October Brussels summit, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen declared that partnerships with third countries were working, pointing to a 64 percent decline in Central Mediterranean arrivals. She reinforced the EU’s focus on counteri... | Mixed Migration Centre, Europe | Are arrivals really down? Yes — but only on some routes, and likely only for now. Is demand for irregular journeys declining? No. Has smuggling been disrupted? No. | [
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] | migration | 2025-03-20T11:42:37.171Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ar613bb89a |
The EU's planned '28th regime' is Bolkestein revisited | In 2004, Frits Bolkestein — a Dutch liberal politician and EU commissioner for the internal market — introduced a controversial piece of legislation that would forever carry his name . The “Bolkestein Directive” would allow companies to provide services in other EU countries under the labour conditions of their home co... | UNI Europa | The EU's plan for a so-called “28th regime” could make unfair competition the norm at the expense of Europe’s working people. Just like the Bolkestein Directive, it risks becoming a free pass for companies to bypass national collective bargaining agreements, union rights, and social protections. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
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] | * | 2025-03-19T11:06:34.035Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar6749e82f |
Macron told you so, again and again – but he's not convincing the French | When Donald Trump took office in January, with a mission to shake up the world order, European leaders seemed somewhat caught off guard — except for the French president Emmanuel Macron. For him, it was as though he had been preparing for this geopolitical chaos from the very beginning, and now his stance has been prov... | Emma Sofia Dedorson | 'Europe cannot trust the US for protection. We must be sovereign and stick together, especially in military matters.' Like a broken record, this has been Emmanuel Macron’s message since he took office in 2017. Now, his greatest 'I told you so' moment is here. There’s only one problem: he seems incapable of convincing t... | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-19T11:03:40.202Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ara4aa7ffc |
The turbo-charging of EU defence — explained | Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shook the EU's approach to defence, prompting a swift reevaluation of the EU’s military landscape. As the European Commission sets out its vision for a single market for defence in its white paper due on Wednesday (19 March), we take a close look at global and European tren... | . | As the European Commission sets out its vision for a single market for defence in its white paper due on Wednesday, we take a close look at global and European trends and the industry’s readiness to meet new challenges. | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political",
"Ukraine"
] | * | 2025-03-19T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar0fa3f12f |
Belarus forces accused of raping women fleeing to Poland | Testimonies are emerging of sexual violence against women and girls attempting to enter Poland from Belarus, in a wider report on illegal pushbacks of prospective asylum seekers. Published on Tuesday (18 March) by Oxfam and its Polish partner Egala , the 66-page report sheds light into what the campaigners say is a sys... | Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010. | Testimonies are emerging of sexual violence against women and girls attempting to enter Poland from Belarus, in a wider report on illegal pushbacks of prospective asylum seekers. | [
"Migration",
"Health & Society"
] | migration | 2025-03-17T23:01:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/arf740e957 |
Syrian women must have a seat at the transition table | Syrians have endured 14 years of profound loss but continue to rebuild and seek accountability. Enforced disappearances, torture, and war crimes persist. Over 202,000 civilians have been killed, nearly 100,000 disappeared, and 15,000 died from torture in regime prisons. The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 ope... | Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Cairo | Monday's high-level meeting of the EU-27 foreign affairs ministers and the Brussels Ministerial Conference on Syria will determine the EU policy and reconstruction funding. Unfortunately, Syrian led-civil society organisations, the actors closest to the reality on the ground, are often put on the margins of such conver... | [
"EU & the World",
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-17T12:48:13.205Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar351b7761 |
Who's up and who's down in Liberties annual EU rule-of-law report | 2024 saw Europe’s political pendulum swing decisively to the right. Populist far-right parties rode a wave of immigration hysteria and economic woes to success in national and EU elections. And even where they didn’t win, mainstream parties mirrored many of their talking points to woo voters. So what does this mean for... | Civil Liberties Union for Europe | France showed no progress whatsoever and declined in most areas. Germany and Sweden also are on a downward trend, while Italy, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary are wreckers, according to Berlin NGO Civl Liberties Union for Europe. | [
"Rule of Law",
"EU Political",
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] | rule-of-law | 2025-03-17T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/rule-of-law/arbbfffa9a |
In Syria, and elsewhere, there is no peace without development | On Monday (17 March), leaders from around the world gather in Brussels to discuss how the international community can help address humanitarian needs and support economic recovery and reconstruction in Syria. These are crucial conversations because the people of Syria stand at a historic moment. There has been renewed ... | United Nations Office for Project Services | The future of Syria is in the hands of Syrians. And the international community has a duty to support their efforts at this crucial time. UNOPS is working to undertake an integrated response across humanitarian, development and peace sectors. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-17T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar14d329e0 |
Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally | After all the build-up, the transatlantic trade war has truly begun . US tariffs on steel are reciprocated with EU tariffs on jeans and Harley Davidsons. When announcing the EU tariffs president Ursula von der Leyen was clear that she is open to dialogue with the Americans to deescalate the trade conflict. We have seen... | Socialists & Democrats | The EU Digital Services Tax (for which the commission proposed a directive in 2018 but at the time was blocked by several member states) can be reintroduced — a targeted levy that will not harm consumers, but aims directly at the excessive profits of tech billionaires supporting Donald Trump, writes the S&D vice presid... | [
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-13T15:07:42.213Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arc33e939c |
Unpacking EU’s food fight over new gene-edited supercrops | Agrochemical multinationals crave them, small and organic farmers don’t want them, most consumers know zilch about them and governments are fighting over them: genetically modified foods are back on the EU menu. At a standstill for months, the EU's plan to free so-called New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) from strict GMO ru... | Jelena Prtorić | After months of standstill, the EU’s plan to ease restrictions on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) could move forward on Friday, pushing efforts from factory farm capitals to bypass concerns from countries worried about small and organic farmers. Here's why it’s controversial — and how Poland’s stance has shifted the bala... | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-03-13T09:45:21.427Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/areabaa9a3 |
A radical proposal: put the EU's counter-tariffs on US social media apps | The EU is already retaliating against the US new import tariffs. Any tariff or trade war would be ill-advised and would cause self inflicted pain, with lower risks. So what can be another more productive answer, consistent with the EU Anti-Coercion instrument ? Rather than imposing generic customs that would increase p... | Guardian | Social media is strongly negatively related to mental health, to inefficient time use, weakened family relations, depressing comparisons with others, a weakening of democracy and for less tax revenue. Social media benefits from Europeans, yet Europeans are likely suffering in return. | [
"EU & the World",
"Digital",
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-12T16:18:37.564Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar1afb800d |
Harleys and Levis in the firing line as EU retaliates to Trump's trade war | The EU bowed to the inevitable on Wednesday (12 March) by firing a volley of returning fire on US imports after president Donald Trump formally started his much anticipated global trade war. The EU Commission will impose tit-for-tat tariffs on US exports after the Trump administration confirmed 25-percent import tariff... | Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya. | The EU bowed to the inevitable on Wednesday, by firing a volley of returning fire on US imports after president Donald Trump formally started his much anticipated global trade war. | [
"EU & the World"
] | * | 2025-03-12T15:40:41.757Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar6821db20 |
Greenland elects pro-business leader, amid Trump offer to 'make you rich' | Voters in Greenland chose the social-liberal and pro-business Demokraatit party in a landslide victory on Tuesday (11 March), in the shadow of US calls to take over its vast territory. Demokraatit won with almost one third (29.9 percent) of the vote, putting 33-year old party leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen in charge of f... | Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media. | Voters in Greenland chose the social-liberal and pro-business Demokraatit party in a landslide victory on Tuesday, amid a tug-of-war on its future between the US and EU.
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-12T11:49:02.595Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arcf03caf4 |
When is an EU 'dialogue' actually a monologue? | From railway lines to wind turbines, steel has not only forged the foundations of the European Union but remains a critical building block for its future. The industry underpins more than two million jobs and remains crucial for the EU’s economic and geopolitical strength. But it’s also one of the dirtiest sectors: sti... | Climate Action Network | As a sign of the importance of 'green steel', the EU Commission this month launched a Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Steel — a high-level roundtable with industry executives and policymakers. Yet one key voice was missing: civil society. No civic organisations were invited. | [
"Green Economy",
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] | investigations | 2025-03-11T12:40:26.325Z | https://euobserver.com/investigations/ar5039e320 |
EU to expand deportation regime as Europe turns against migrants | A new EU-wide deportation regime is set to be unveiled by the European Commission, raising alarm among rights defenders as the bloc continues its political push to crack down on migration. The bill, possibly a regulation, will be presented on Tuesday (11 March) by the Brussels executive and is likely to entail wording ... | Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010. | A new EU-wide deportation regime is set to be unveiled by the European Commission on Tuesday, raising alarm among rights defenders as the bloc continues its political push to crack down on migration. | [
"Migration"
] | migration | 2025-03-10T14:48:58.981Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ar58219782 |
Five years after Covid-19: has Europe learned? | Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses of Europe’s health and social care systems, have policymakers truly learned from the crisis? While some steps have been taken to improve preparedness, such as improving coordination of disease centres as well as response mechanisms, the most important lesson... | OPZZ | While some steps have been taken to improve preparedness, the most important lesson has been overlooked: Europe’s resilience depends on strong, well-funded public health and care services with qualified staff. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2025-03-10T14:13:56.888Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ar6ec5f917 |
US tech on the Ukraine battlefield is a problem for Europe | Like a gambler suddenly realizing the house always wins, Europe is waking up to the brutal reality of its dependence on American power. For decades, the continent relied on US security guarantees, never questioning the strings that might come attached. But now, with Trump’s erratic policies and the looming threat of US... | Henry Jackson Society | Italy is now reconsidering a €1.5bn deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink for military and government use, citing shifting US commitments to European security — while Poland has provided 20,000 Starlink units and covered their maintenance costs. | [
"EU & the World",
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-10T13:37:04.476Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar587f0496 |
Electric vehicles and climatisation: measuring the impact on driving range | The average energy consumption of an electric vehicle has always been measured without heating the car, which can have a significant impact on driving range – in some cases even halving the range, according to new test methodology developed by Green NCAP. When Green NCAP was launched in 2019 as an assessment programme ... | European New Car Assessment Program | Heating an electric vehicle in cold weather has a significant impact on its energy consumption. To provide consumers with better and more complete information, Green NCAP has developed its own cold temperature tests to measure the impact of climatisation on driving range. | [] | stakeholders | 2025-03-07T10:45:21.006Z | https://euobserver.com/stakeholders/ar7504f730 |
Some depressing home truths on International Womens' Day | The alarming rise in violence against women is a major global emergency. World leaders should recognise and treat it as such. Sexually violent crimes against women , including rape and torture, are proliferating in conflict zones like Ukraine , Gaza , Congo , and Sudan . There is gender apartheid in Afghanistan , and i... | Media Career Award 2023 | Most women reading this column will have their own personal story to tell about encountering 'glass ceilings' of discrimination, bias and prejudice — and also of 'sticky floors' which prevent so many of us from even attempting to climb up the ladder. | [
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-07T09:30:52.664Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar5da2ec4b |
Defence industry to EIB: We don’t need money, we need contracts | With the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU's lending arm, moving closer to funding defence projects, weapon manufacturers argue that what they need is more contracts, not financing. Speaking at the three-day EIB Forum event, the EU Council president António Costa called on the institution to increase its role in d... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | The EIB showcased its plans to increase defence financing, but industry leaders at the bank's annual event said: 'That is nice, but we don't need it' | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-03-06T18:47:16.163Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ara84eddcc |
Why we're blacklisting Morocco's Danish lobbyists | Working for an occupying power, whether directly or indirectly, is not just morally wrong; it contributes to a less stable world. It is also something that should come with political consequences. This is also the case when it takes the form of helping an occupying power’s businesses trying to gain favourable market ac... | Jussi Saramo | As Nordic MEPs, we are well acquainted with the Danish Public Affairs company Rud Pedersen.
Perhaps naively, we had hoped this would been having certain standards. It seems we were mistaken. | [
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] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-06T09:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arc85d4236 |
Malta's little-known law letting global gambling giants off the hook | The world’s biggest gambling companies are using a little-known Maltese law, that nullifies court verdicts elsewhere in the European Union, to protect themselves from potentially having to pay out millions in legal claims. Under a law known as Bill 55, Maltese courts can “refuse recognition and, or enforcement” of any ... | Investigate Europe | Under a law known as Bill 55, Maltese courts can “refuse recognition and, or enforcement” of any foreign judgment involving companies registered on the island — namely, the scores of betting companies based there thanks to an already favourable corporate climate. | [
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] | health-and-society | 2025-03-06T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/arcc32ff89 |
Budapest Pride under threat, as Orbán tests what he can get away with | It was only a matter of time. For years, Viktor Orbán has systematically dismantled Hungary’s democratic institutions, turning the country into an autocratic enclave within the European Union. He has attacked independent media, hollowed out the judiciary, and driven a relentless campaign against LGBTQ+ rights. Now, he ... | Renew Europe | Viktor Orbán, explicitly relishing a friendlier international climate with the return of Donald Trump, is testing the limits of what he can get away with, warns Hungarian MP Katalin Cseh. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-03-05T11:50:51.623Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar0af7d058 |
How a 'Rearmament Bank' for Ukraine would work | Europeans are in shock about the Trump presidency . ‘Is this administration sad, mad, or outright bad?’ they ask themselves amid the ruins of the Atlantic alliance and what some fear even is the impending end of Nato. For optimists, a talentless collection of lackeys and grifters, led by a rough-tongued huckster, will ... | Edward Lucas | Instead of fretting about events in Washington Europeans cannot control, we should instead be making decisions on things that lie within our power. That is why I along with Belgian, French, Polish and other allies have spent the past few weeks promoting the idea of a Rearmament Bank. Here's how it would work. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-04T09:39:17.248Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar9fe95067 |
EU seeks €800bn defence hike after Trump stops Ukraine aid | The European Commission has proposed an €800bn hike in defence spending — the morning after the US stopped military aid to Ukraine. Most of the money (€650bn) is to come from national treasuries, unlocked by letting countries off the hook on EU debt and deficit rules if they boosted defence budgets by a further 1.5 per... | Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. | The European Commission has proposed an €800bn hike in defence spending — the morning after the US abruptly stopped military aid to Ukraine. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-04T09:37:13.992Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar8077820c |
New survey shows Europeans support socially-just public procurement | According to a new survey commissioned by the European Services Union UNI Europa , the majority of Europeans think that public authorities should promote good working conditions and collective bargaining in public procurement contracts. Current EU public procurement rules have resulted in a situation in which most publ... | UNI Global Union | According to a new survey, EU residents want public contracts to prioritise good working conditions and wages over cost alone. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2025-03-04T06:10:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ard48bbde0 |
Trump is a challenge to the EPP — wake up, or move further right? | In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has initiated a supernova of diplomatic destruction, rupturing ties with Europe and shredding the multilateral world order that has been in place since 1945. From withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organisation, to undermining Nato and burning bridges with Europe... | European Green Party | US president Donald Trump alignment with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a watershed moment for all European democrats to resist — especially the conservatives of the European People's Party — write the co-chairs of the European Green Party. | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-03-03T12:27:11.840Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar7847a2db |
'Our fight won't be a short one', warns Serbian student protestor | The anti-corruption "rebellion" in Serbia will go on despite the regime's spin or violence, one fearless student has said. "It won't be an easy fight, or a short one", said Milica Mudrić, a 22-year-old PR and marketing student at the Faculty of Philosophy, a university in the Serbian city of Novi Sad. Over 200,000 peop... | Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. | Over 200,000 people gathered in the rural town of Niš, in southern Serbia, on Saturday to keep pressing for transparency and accountability over the collapse of a railway station roof in Novi Sad last year, which killed 15 people. | [
"EU & the World",
"Rule of Law"
] | * | 2025-03-03T10:34:16.819Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ard7776182 |
How the EU distorts data to justify green deregulation | Last week, the EU Commission unveiled a plan to cut corporate reporting requirements, claiming it will reduce costs and boost competitiveness. Critics lambasted the changes because they would dramatically shrink the scope of social, environmental, and human rights reporting and due diligence. If the plan goes through, ... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | The EU’s telephone game distorts studies to fit a narrative—turning green reporting into a competitiveness threat, despite little evidence that deregulation would boost competitiveness. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-03-03T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar768ab3e5 |
Poland's ban on asylum — a new low | On 21 February, Polish MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of a mechanism for the suspension of the right to submit asylum applications. The suspension is to be enacted through executive action by the government in the event of the so-called ‘instrumentalisation of migrants’. The measure is quite clearly at odds with th... | Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Polish Ombudsman) | On 21 February, Polish MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of a mechanism for the suspension of the right to submit asylum applications. The measure is quite clearly at odds with the Polish constitution, international law, and the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). We are witnessing a full-blown rule-of-law crisis at... | [
"Migration",
"Rule of Law",
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | migration | 2025-02-28T09:31:52.142Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ard2ed88b7 |
EU holds 'very productive' meetings as Trump repeats 25% tariff threat | The European Commission maintains its meetings with US counterparts to stave off tariffs are "very productive", as Donald Trump threatens to slap a 25-percent levy on the EU. The comment by EU commission trade spokesperson Olof Gill on Thursday (27 February) comes less than a day after Trump declared that the EU was cr... | Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010. | The European Commission maintains its meetings with US counterparts to stave off tariffs are "very productive" as Donald Trump threatens to slap a 25 percent levy on the EU. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-27T14:33:46.488Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar99a3fa8f |
Why we're suing Elon Musk's X for German election data | The Berlin NGO Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and our legal partner Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) is suing Elon Musk's X to provide us with access to the platform's publicly-available data in order to conduct research on online public discourse during the German election campaign . As a result, within... | Michael Meyer-Resende | As part of our research agenda, we gained access to TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (a secure data room designed for civil society organisations in lieu of its API) and Meta’s Content Library. X, however, was not cooperative. | [
"Rule of Law",
"Digital",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | rule-of-law | 2025-02-27T13:40:57.618Z | https://euobserver.com/rule-of-law/ar72c796ad |
Von der Leyen's bonfire of regulations is an act of vandalism | Ursula von der Leyen’s commission has just signalled that it is shifting towards a Trump-influenced deregulatory agenda that prioritises market freedoms over public interest. Through Wednesday's (26 February) 'Omnibus' reforms of recently-agreed legal directives and regulations, the commission is dismantling vital safe... | The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre | Ursula von der Leyen’s commission has just signalled that it is shifting towards a Trump-influenced deregulatory agenda that prioritises market freedoms over public interest, writes former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, and Phil Bloomer. | [
"EU Political",
"Green Economy",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-26T15:22:53.390Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ara0433565 |
EU's green rules rollback criticised for 'missing the point' | Just a few years ago, Europe's green transition seemed unstoppable. But rising inflation and cost-of-living concerns, primarily driven by high gas prices, fuelled a backlash led by business groups and conservatives, who framed green policies as burdensome and too costly. This narrative managed to convince many. By 2023... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | The EU Commission is set to unveil a proposal to ease the regulatory burden on companies, but critics argue it fails to simplify and instead reverses key Green Deal achievements. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-02-26T04:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar0d5be99c |
Monday is when EU should say 'no' to Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid | Across Europe people are demanding an end to the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. For 16 months people have taken to the streets, activated trade unions, signed letters and petitions, supported fundraisers and built university encampments to demand justice for victims of genocide and war crimes and for the decade... | Anna Błaszczak-Banasiak - | For the first time in the EU’s history, ministers will welcome the representative of a state whose prime minister and former defence minister are subject to International Criminal Court arrest warrants. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-24T14:28:06.218Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar211d6928 |
80 percent said no — so let’s stop pretending the AfD speaks for ‘The People’ | There are two key takeaways from Sunday’s (23 February) election in Germany: they are the numbers 83.5 and 80. The former is the voter turnout — 83.5 percent — the highest since 1987 . In other words, the highest in the history of a united Germany. The latter — 80 percent — is the total number of Germans who refused to... | Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin. | There are two takeaways from Sunday's election in Germany — it was the highest turnout in two generations, and four-in-five Germans refused to vote for the racist far-right. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-24T13:55:59.637Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar9851557b |
EU envoy in Kyiv warns: Don't repeat ‘about us, without us’ mistake | As the US and Russia discuss ways to end the worst conflict on the European continent since World War II, EU ambassador to Kyiv Katarína Mathernová has cautioned against sidelining Europe and Ukraine from future negotiations. “To make any peace just and sustainable, it cannot happen without Europe,” Mathernová told EUo... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | As the US and Russia discuss ways to end the worst conflict on the European continent since World War II, EU ambassador to Kyiv Katarína Mathernová has cautioned against sidelining Europe and Ukraine from future negotiations. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-24T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arcd35b652 |
Use frozen Russian Central Bank assets to pay for peace in Ukraine | With multiple statements this week and last week signaling that the US will no longer prioritise European and Ukrainian security, Europe’s worst nightmare is becoming a reality. There is no doubt that only a democratic, well-fortified, and well-armed Ukraine can guarantee lasting peace for Europe by deterring further R... | Olena Halushka | Europe must overcome its reluctance to make Russia pay for peace — a pragmatic way forward is to consolidate all immobilised assets into a new Brussels-based institution dedicated to Ukraine’s development, minimising risks to the Eurozone while ensuring that Russia bears the cost of its destruction. | [
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | ukraine | 2025-02-21T13:08:31.666Z | https://euobserver.com/ukraine/ara8d88a2a |
EU energy deals with north Africa replicate neocolonial harms, says report | Greenpeace has released a new report exposing how European investments, supposedly aimed at supporting the transition to a green economy, are instead deepening inequality and replicating the injustices of the fossil-fuel era in north Africa. The report zeroes in on Egypt and Morocco — two north African nations that rem... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | EU-led oil and gas projects in north Africa have led to soil erosion and water contamination — while offering little benefit to the local populace, finds Greenpeace in a new report. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-02-20T12:27:22.139Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arbb860d02 |
Withdrawing equality directive is disgrace for Europe and capitulation to populism | The withdrawing the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive is a disgrace for Europe, a betrayal of our democratic values, and an insult to the millions of our citizen who face discrimination in their daily life. The European Commission has capitulated to populism. By scrapping the directive , the European Commission ... | Socialists & Democrats | The withdrawing the Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Directive is a disgrace for Europe, a betrayal of our democratic values, and an insult to the millions of our citizen who face discrimination in their daily life. The European Commission has capitulated to populism. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-20T11:11:45.224Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar5e0315d6 |
Why the new Europol regulation is a Trojan Horse for surveillance | The EU Commission’s proposal for a new Europol Regulation as part of the recast of the ‘Facilitator’s Package’ is a pretext for unchecked expansion of power and resources for Europol, the EU’s policing agency, at the expense of those they claim to protect. The regulation has fallen at the first hurdle — with the Counci... | Antonella Napolitano | The EU Commission is framing these proposals as a humanitarian effort to “curb exploitation” by “ruthless smuggling gangs” — but this disguises a more insidious reality. | [
"Migration",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | migration | 2025-02-19T11:28:37.606Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ar62dea65a |
The current state of independent media in Ukraine | Russia is keeping up its disinformation efforts in Ukraine. Empowering our nation's independent media serves as a mighty weapon against these efforts. Yet for Ukraine itself and its authorities, the independence of the media presents the flip side of the coin. A truly-independent media outlet knows no limits on what an... | Yaroslav Yurchyshyn | A new law ensures the openness and transparency of parliamentary committee meetings, most of which have been held behind closed doors since the Covid era, writes the head of Ukraine's parliamentary committee on freedom of speech. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-17T12:11:00.728Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/are2db36a3 |
The EU said it believed in the two-state solution — its actions said otherwise | At February's annual EU Ambassadors’ Conference, both the p resident of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas made the usual reference to the “two-state solution” as they mentioned the Middle East. Yet the EU has consistently undermined the two-state solution and fuelled the co... | Institute for Global Negotiation | Over the past decades, the EU also sabotaged the two-state solution by offering successive Israeli governments considerable advantages knowing that Netanyahu and others undermined the very viability of a Palestinian state. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-13T15:37:54.005Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arf30887e7 |
What next for the protests in Serbia? | For three months, tens of thousands of citizens, led by students from all over Serbia , have protested throughout the country. They constitute the most serious challenge to the 13-year rule of Aleksandar Vučić. The real question is how these protests can lead to change in Serbia. The protests have clearly defined deman... | Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group | The regime of Serbian Progressive Party and president Aleksanda Vučić is fundamentally undemocratic and cannot restore the rule of law without threatening itself. Unless Vučić makes a mistake, the system will only collapse if part of the power structure around Vučić shifts loyalties | [
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-13T11:05:58.390Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/arb3d2f254 |
Athens pays $600,000 to Washington lobbyists to be 'Trump-whisperers' | Greece has become the latest European government to hire Washington lobbyists as it seeks to curry favour with president Donald Trump. The contract between the Greek foreign ministry and BGR group , a Republican-focused spin shop with close links to Trump and his officials, is worth $600,000 [€577,000] per year and sta... | Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya. | Greece has become the latest European government to hire Washington lobbyists as it seeks to curry favour with the capricious president Donald Trump. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-12T17:33:23.100Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arbd150faa |
Denmark outsourcing prisoners to Kosovo set pattern for Meloni and Albania | In recent years, EU member states have increasingly turned to 'outsourcing' their societal challenges, from asylum policy to waste management and industrial pollution, not to mention security and defence. This trend, often framed as pragmatic, is in reality a costly and ethically fraught abdication of responsibility. T... | Volt Europa | In 2021, Denmark signed a deal to send 300 prisoners — convicted in Denmark and slated for deportation — to Kosovo. Such outsourcing of justice and the exportation of prisoners is merely a temporary fix to avoid domestic investment in a long-term penal reform. | [
"Nordics",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-12T12:16:42.020Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ara1acfe73 |
Germany needs another Helmut Kohl - instead, it's getting Friedrich Merz | Helmut Kohl became the chancellor of Germany at a time of profound crisis for the Western world. In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union was seeking to extend its superpower status in Afghanistan and deploying modernised SS-20 missiles in eastern Europe that were capable of striking Nato. Germany today faces a similar set... | EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy | The elections on 23 February are the most consequential for Germany since 1990. Kohl’s momentous time in office helped to create a Europe based on freedom and the rule of law. The task ahead of Germany’s leaders today will be to deter Russia from unraveling that European order. | [
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-11T14:19:12.245Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar6b35211f |
EU needs to halt rich member states poaching doctors and nurses | The new(ish) EU commissioner for health and animal welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, will undoubtedly face immense and pressing challenges in his new role. Most EU countries are facing identical demographic changes: an ageing population, and an ageing and shrinking health workforce, which is also overworked and undervalued . T... | Wemos | The last thing the EU needs is inward-turning member states that resort to the quick fix of competing for each other’s’ scarce health workers, without reflecting on the consequences of their actions on access to healthcare in other countries. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-10T13:44:53.966Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar2c16b5c9 |
Romania's agony | Romania has been much in the news of late, and the news isn’t good. Much of the focus has been on the so-called TikTok controversy , in which the Russian intelligence services allegedly interfered in the recent election to promote its favored candidate. There is substantial evidence that did in fact occur. As a result,... | Mark Gitenstein | The bottom line is that the EU Commission should complete and release the findings of its investigation of Russian interference in Romania's election before the voters return to the polls in May, writes the US former ambassador to Romania and to the EU. | [
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-10T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/arc2172c27 |
Von der Leyen's second-term U-turns will come back to hurt Europeans | During her first Commission mandate, Ursula von der Leyen defended the EU Green Deal as a “strategy for growth that gives more back than it takes away”. But in a complete and worrying reversal, her second term’s slogan seems to be deregulation, particularly when it comes to legislation setting the bar for environmental... | UC Louvain | In her first term, Ursula von der Leyen defended the EU Green Deal as a “strategy for growth that gives more back than it takes away”. But in a complete and worrying reversal, her second term’s slogan seems to be deregulation, warns UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-07T11:46:46.217Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar310d8372 |
A first look at the EU’s upcoming legislative agenda | The European Commission's 2025 draft work programme has been leaked, offering a first look at the EU’s upcoming legislative agenda. The programme, due to be officially unveiled and presented to MEPs in Strasbourg next week, lists this year’s new proposals, pending files and planned withdrawals. The draft could be subje... | Notably, some proposals are missing, especially for the transport sector. For the automobile industry, there is no sign of an industrial action plan, which was scheduled for 5 March, nor a proposal on the greening of company fleets, as set in the mission letter of transport commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas. | The European Commission's 2025 draft work programme has been leaked, offering a first look at the EU’s upcoming legislative agenda. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2025-02-06T14:02:25.373Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ard595388d |
Syria's transition is very uncertain — partly due to Turkey | Ahmed al-Shara , head of an Islamist coalition that overthrew Bashar al-Assad, was recently appointed president of Syria to steward Syria’s transition. The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), America’s allies fighting Isis, is wary of replacing one dictator with another. Shara talks about pluralism, but he has a sordid ba... | Peacebuilding: A Personal Journey | The Syrian Democratic Council's platform of grassroots democracy, women’s empowerment and environmental protection is anathema to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s centralised authoritarian rule. Yet Ahmed al-Shara and Erdogan are ideologically and politically-aligned. So how will Shara manage Syria’s transition... | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-06T12:30:00.108Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar2d200c99 |
How to reform EU overseas aid in the wake of Trump | The sudden interruption of funding by the US government to humanitarian actors has shocked all organisations involved in international solidarity. The Red Cross Movement, UN organisations, and international NGOs are already assessing how the announced restrictions will impact their operations in the field and their sta... | , a former president of Action Against Hunger and Doctors of the World-France, and author of | The EU cannot simply substitute itself for missing US overseas aid — it must broaden the number of donating states, and it should copy economist Thomas Piketty's idea of fiscal measures on the €458bn in European corporate dividends, ten times more than enough to help the 300 million people in need of humanitarian aid. | [
"EU & the World",
"Migration",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-02-05T10:53:09.530Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar78badd92 |
The EU's unwavering support for Rwanda must end now | On 26 January, the M23 rebellion, supported by the Rwandan army, took over the eastern DR Congo city of Goma. This marked a major escalation of the Congolese conflict. The M23 rebellion had (re)started its activities in November 2021; and particularly over the last two years dramatically expanded its territory over eas... | Erik Kennes | One might have hoped that the capture of Goma would be the shock that would push the EU to change course. However, despite certain member state efforts to sanction Rwanda, they were once again blocked by France: national interests prevailed. | [
"Africa",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-02-04T12:20:44.000Z | https://euobserver.com/*/arce9b9340 |
Meloni's Albania deportation experiment has failed | Last Tuesday (28 January), as Giorgia Meloni’s government resumed its attempts to force people seeking safety and a better life in Europe into prison camps in Albania, electricity broke down in the port of Shengjin. As port staff struggled to get the lights back on, officials realised that among the people they were in... | Green and Left Alliance | Last Friday (31 January), Italian courts ordered that remaining 43 people taken to Albania were to be returned to Italy. It’s time for Georgia Meloni’s government to face reality — this unlawful and, hopefully, unsuccessful — plan is embarrassing Italy on the world stage. | [
"Migration",
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-02-03T10:44:43.617Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar6aec9598 |
EU leaders' new 'retreat' meeting, and Polish presidency in Gdańsk This WEEK | EU leaders are gathering on Monday (3 February) to discuss European defence and transatlantic relations at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels in an informal context, deemed a “retreat”. This new format, proposed by EU Council president António Costa, is expected to allow leaders to have more strategic discussions, without... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | EU leaders are gathering in a new format 'retreat' on Monday to discuss defence and relations with Washington, while the European Commission's official visit to Gdańsk in Poland for the start of the country's EU presidency is on Thursday and Friday. | [
"Agenda"
] | agenda | 2025-02-03T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/agenda/ara22c9e74 |
Is a fair transition possible in a Europe focused on competitiveness, security, and defence? | As the European Union transitions to a new mandate, the shift from the European Green Deal (EGD) to the Clean Industrial Deal raises questions: will social and environmental justice and sustainability once again be sidelined in favour of competitiveness and growth? And will the EU recognise civil society organisations'... | REAL DEAL | As the EU transitions to a new mandate, the shift from the European Green Deal to the Clean Industrial Deal raises questions: will social and environmental justice and sustainability once again be sidelined in favour of competitiveness and growth? | [
"Green Economy"
] | * | 2025-01-31T11:58:55.365Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar2d5e3126 |
Why is the EU ignoring Serbia's student protests? | While much of the recent news cycle in the EU has been consumed with the second Trump administration’s 'flooding the zone' with norm-pummeling, disruptive executive orders, popular action for democratic standards and rule of law continues to build throughout Serbia. Yet the policy posture from Brussels remains on autop... | Democratization Policy Council | The policy posture from Brussels remains on autopilot, effectively siding with Serbia's authoritarian president Aleksandar Vučić against the student-led protesters, while continuing 'happy talk' about the enlargement process. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-01-31T11:56:28.323Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar85c1c8a8 |
Europe must become 'true AI continent', says EU tech sovereignty commissioner | The EU must “step up to become a true AI continent,” European tech sovereignty commissioner Henna Virkkunen told MEPs on Wednesday (29 January), as campaigners urged the bloc to stand up against US tech companies. More than 35 European and US organisations have called on EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to... | announced | The EU must “step up to become a true AI continent,” European tech sovereignty commissioner Henna Virkkunen told MEPs on Wednesday — as campaigners urged the bloc to stand up against US Big Tech.
| [
"EU & the World",
"Digital"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-29T17:48:41.557Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar7edd2fdf |
Doctors in DR Congo hospital fear Rwanda-backed slaughter, call for EU help | Doctors, nurses, and patients at the Nobel-prize fêted Panzi Foundation in DR Congo (DRC) fear being slaughtered by Rwanda-backed rebels, unless the EU and wider international community act quickly to save them. "We've received a number of threatening messages and we don't know how to clear out the hospital or put thes... | Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. | Doctors, nurses, and patients at the Nobel-prize fêted Panzi hospitals in the DR Congo fear being slaughtered by Rwanda-backed rebels, unless the EU and wider international community act quickly. | [
"Africa"
] | africa | 2025-01-29T12:19:54.327Z | https://euobserver.com/africa/arfd3cba3d |
NGOs are essential, corporate lobbying is the real problem | Last week, conservative and rightwing MEPs in the European Parliament questioned whether NGOs should receive public funding through EU programmes such as LIFE to engage in EU policy-making. It’s important to note that LIFE , the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action (which encompasses more than... | World Wide Fund for Nature | Critics allege, in an increasingly aggressive tone, that NGOs “misuse” these funds to unduly and secretly influence EU decision-making, and that this constituted a “scandal”. Let’s be clear: there is no scandal, no secrecy, here. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-28T11:29:17.988Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar199e94cb |
What is EU doing on AI facial-scraping recognition — and is it enough? | Every day, billions of photos are shared online. These photos can be scraped and end up in facial recognition databases owned by commercial firms, without people’s consent or knowledge . The practice, which allows police and intelligence services to identify individuals of interest by comparing images with biometric fa... | Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation | Scraping fundamentally conflicts with privacy principles such as consent, transparency, purpose limitation and data minimisation. Personal data is scrapped on a mass scale without our knowledge making it infeasible to obtain individuals’ consents or be transparent. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | digital | 2025-01-27T10:50:49.156Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/ar4c69411a |
What Europe must do now to end Lukashenko's tyranny | On Sunday (26 January), the dictator of Belarus orchestrated a meticulously planned “special electoral operation,” deploying his security forces and the full weight of the oppressive machinery he has constructed over three decades. This operation was not about governance or representation — it was an assault on the nin... | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya | As long as Belarus is under Lukashenko and Putin’s control, there will be a constant threat to the peace and security of the entire region. It’s in Europe’s interest to drag Belarus out of tyranny and Russian claws, writes Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-01-27T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/*/arf9fa581d |
Why Big Agri wants to call new-generation GMOs anything but that | New genomic techniques, new breeding techniques, gene editing, precision breeding — these buzzwords may sound like winning moves in Scrabble, but they are mainly confusing for many of us. And make no mistake, they were designed for that very purpose. In reality, they quite simply refer to a new generation of geneticall... | Friends of the Earth Europe | Calling the new generation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) simply 'new GMOs' would have been transparent — but such clarity would likely have sparked widespread public resistance to the European Commission’s legislative proposal to deregulate them. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-24T13:13:17.070Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar7532f8f9 |
After Gaza, now the EU is silent on the West Bank situation | Since a ceasefire was reached in Gaza , the Israeli army has locked all Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank while settlers terrorise Palestinians enjoying impunity and protection from the Israeli government. Israeli ministers have announced that they are beginning a major operation and millions of Palestinians... | Palestine Liberation Organization | The current situation in Palestine is not the entire responsibility of the European Union. But the killing of 10 Palestinians, blocking the access to the Jenin Hospital as well as setting the West Bank into a lockdown has been met with no Western reaction, including from the EU. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-23T11:47:26.030Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar9557bcb5 |
The Council of Europe should support human rights and hold Azerbaijan accountable | When Azerbaijan was accepted into the Council of Europe in 2001 , it was seen as a constructive way to support the country’s progress toward democracy. Like all members, its admission came with certain obligations: uphold the standards of a pluralist democracy, respect the rule of law, and defend human rights. Over the... | Freedom Now, | Europe can no longer turn a blind eye to Azerbaijan’s transformation into an autocratic state. It is time to hold Baku accountable for its abysmal human rights record. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-23T05:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar27657715 |
Why Ireland is the Achilles Heel of the EU's fightback against Big Tech | The recent controversies surrounding Big Tech moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — who are defying content moderation norms and accusing the EU of censorship — should come as no surprise to those following the tech industry closely. For over a decade, Big Tech has approached the EU's robust data protection framework ... | EDRi | For over a decade, Big Tech has approached the EU's robust data protection framework as little more than a compliance checkbox, rather than a set of binding legal obligations. A surprising body has been complicit in these Big Tech companies evading EU laws – the notorious Data Protection Commission (DPC) of Ireland. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-01-22T11:11:44.226Z | https://euobserver.com/*/arfd2322c4 |
France spearheaded successful effort to dilute EU AI regulation | In a matter of days, governments across the EU will have the power to deploy AI-powered technologies that track citizens in public spaces, conduct real-time surveillance to monitor refugees in border zones and use facial recognition tools against people based on their suspected political affiliations or religious belie... | Investigate Europe | Governments successfully lobby for freedom to surveil citizens in public spaces, target border areas with AI systems and exploit predictive policing algorithms, internal documents obtained by Investigate Europe reveal. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | digital | 2025-01-22T06:20:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/ardc3193c4 |
How the EU should stand up to Trump's Tech Bros oligarchy | Former EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager used to laugh at how US lawmakers on Capitol Hill sneered at her when she first targeted American tech companies for breaking EU competition rules in the pre-Trump era. As a returning Donald Trump takes aim at EU regulators, promising Apple CEO Tim Cook not to “let ... | is policy analyst at the | The EU’s collective silence on Big Tech’s increasingly brazen interference in Europe’s sovereign affairs — from Elon Musk’s aggressive promotion of the German far-right on X to Mark Zuckerberg urging Trump to protect Meta from European “censorship” — speaks volumes. | [
"EU & the World",
"Digital",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-21T11:18:26.294Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar1d71180f |
Guess who isn't invited to Europe's Holocaust memorials? | Does the European Commission think that one has to be a Zionist to remember the Holocaust? Apparently so. All of the 11 Jewish groups invited to Tuesday's (21 January) Holocaust remembrance conference in Brussels have lent political support to Israel and many work in close alliance with the Israeli mission to the EU, a... | In Your Eyes A Sandstorm - Ways of Being Palestinian | One umbrella organisation of 30 Jewish peace groups – European Jews for Palestine – say they were snubbed by the EU’s antisemitism “tsar”, after twice requesting an invitation to the Holocaust remembrance conference. | [
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | health-and-society | 2025-01-20T12:14:15.648Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/arec94fabc |
Trump and Davos — a double-whammy start to 2025 | Two events taking place on either side of the Atlantic this week will make it clear for all to see the alarming extent to which our democracy has been captured by corporate interests. In the United States, Donald Trump will return to the Capitol for his inauguration, no doubt feigning a newfound respect for democracy j... | European Trade Union Confederation | Europe could never win a race to the bottom that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s admirers here are clamouring for — and we can already see how this recipe has damaged Europe’s competitiveness. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-20T05:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar2bba0bbf |
A victory for the bees? New ruling sheds light on EU pesticide deliberations | When it comes to EU decision-making on which pesticides to authorise or ban, there could be a lot more transparency: for example, why and how the European Commission and member states take decisions on whether protect or not bees and other pollinators. But not only could there be, but there should be much more transpar... | Corporate Europe Observatory | Thursday's ECJ ruling is truly a black box being opened. The European Commission will no longer be able to unjustifiably deny access to documents concerning deliberations on pesticide regulation. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-17T10:24:52.397Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar8c210b18 |
A step-by-step programme for tackling Ukraine's corruption in 2025 | While defending its territory against Russian aggression, Ukraine is aiming for another strategic goal: transforming its institutions to meet EU standards. 2025 will witness an unprecedented push to overhaul crucial rule-of-law institutions, from the customs service to the Supreme Court, marking Ukraine's most ambitiou... | Tetiana Shevchuk | The urgency of these reforms became evident after recent scandals, including the charging of the Supreme Court's head with accepting a €2.5m bribe. | [
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | ukraine | 2025-01-16T10:50:11.863Z | https://euobserver.com/ukraine/arc47c95a8 |
EU can sanction Russians without warning, court says | The EU can sanction Russian firms or oligarchs without any prior warning, judges have said, after a legal challenge that threatened to wreck the bloc's €25bn asset-seizure programme. A Russian telecommunications firm, MegaFon, had claimed the EU Council should have warned it prior to its listing in February 2023, so th... | Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. | The EU can sanction Russian firms or oligarchs without any prior warning, judges have said, after a legal challenge that threatened to wreck the bloc's €25bn asset-seizure programme. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-15T17:56:09.898Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar40d18d86 |
The European Parliament crèche scandal | A childcare centre at the heart of the European Parliament should be a symbol of care, stability, and excellence — values that the institution claims to uphold. Instead, the parliament’s Wayenberg crèche has become a prime example of how privatised childcare can fail children, parents, and workers alike. The latest sca... | European Public Services Union | The problems with the European Parliament's crèche reflect a troubling trend across Europe where profit-driven childcare companies prioritise cost-cutting over quality. By outsourcing daycare services every few years, the parliament has sacrificed continuity and stability — both essential for children’s development — f... | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-14T12:44:19.668Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar6cf0df7a |
With Georgian Dream in power, what next for EU monitoring mission? | Since the war in 2008, the EU Monitoring Mission ( EUMM ) has been the only remaining civilian monitoring mission in Georgia and is a key stabilising force in the region — and the EU just prolonged the mission for another two years in December 2024. However, the disputed parliamentary elections and the government's inc... | Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) | The EU just prolonged its monitoring mission in Georgia in December, for another two years. However, the disputed parliamentary elections and the Georgian Dream government's increasingly authoritarian and anti-European stance could pose new challenges for the mission. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-13T11:47:00.869Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arf6e1e21b |
Defence, Nato Baltic Sea summit, Iran in focus This WEEK | The Brussels bubble is back in full swing after the Christmas and New Year season, with defence and security high on this week’s agenda. EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is still recovering from pneumonia at home in Germany. And if she isn’t back by Wednesday, European Commission executive vice president Te... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | The Brussels bubble is back in full swing after the Christmas season, with defence and security in the Baltic, Iran and Gaza, high on this week’s agenda. | [
"Agenda"
] | agenda | 2025-01-13T07:47:32.915Z | https://euobserver.com/agenda/arce38847a |
Egypt’s new asylum law: aided by EU support, fuelled by repression | The EU’s reliance on Egypt as a 'migration buffer' has translated into significant financial and logistical support aimed at controlling migration routes. In March 2024, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed a Joint Declaration on the Strategic and Compreh... | Shimaa Samy | Egypt’s new asylum bill, introduced as an attempt to regulate refugee status, has drawn significant criticism for its vague language and restrictive provisions. Terms like “national security” and “public order” remain undefined, allowing for broad interpretations that justify arbitrary measures against refugees. | [
"EU & the World",
"Migration",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-13T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar788ee6c9 |
What does the new EU-Japan defence partnership actually mean? | Japan has become the first country in the Indo-Pacific to strike a security and defence partnership with the European Union. In one of his final acts as the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell concluded what he described as the “historical and very timely” agreement last November with Japan’s foreign minister, Tak... | EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy | Japan has become the first country in the Indo-Pacific to strike a security and defence partnership with the European Union. Japan is now on course to become the third-largest military spender globally in 2027, following the US and China. What does that entail? | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-10T10:02:35.598Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ardb6a9f8c |
Europe's response to Syria has been disappointing — to say the least | On New Year's Day, Tamara, a well-known Syrian activist, posted a picture of her in Damascus with the caption, "Finally back home". It has then been almost a month since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. For most Syrians and people who follow Syria closely, the thought occurs to them at least once every day that s... | Vrije Universiteit Brussels | Europe's response since the fall of Assad on 8 December 2024 has been disappointing. In an initial reaction, several European countries announced that the asylum procedure for Syrians would be stopped. At the same time, sanctions against Syria were not suspended and HTS was not removed from the list of terrorist organi... | [
"EU & the World",
"Africa",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-09T09:59:28.388Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar96867a51 |
EU fined €400 for breaching own privacy laws with Facebook 'log in' | The EU general court in Luxembourg on Wednesday (8 January) ordered the European Commission to pay €400 in damages to a private citizen for breaching its own data protection laws. The complainant, a German citizen, filed the case after visiting the Conference on the Future of Europe website in March 2022 via Facebook —... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | The complainant, a German citizen, filed the case after visiting the ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ website in March 2022 via Facebook, claiming the commission had violated his right to data protection by sending data to the US. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | digital | 2025-01-08T16:29:34.205Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/arbf1bedc3 |
TikTok's interference is coming for French and German elections next | As the war in Ukraine has been unfolding on the battlefield, the Black Sea region has been assaulted with much cheaper instruments of destabilisation from Russia. Information and voter manipulation in key elections is an effective way to control a country’s geopolitical and economic policies. Throughout this fall, thre... | German Marshall Fund of the United States | The similarities between Chinese TikTok manipulation campaigns in the Philippines and the Russian information manipulation campaigns in the Black Sea region are striking. As we see the fine-tuning of destabilising techniques, it should be no surprise that they will be deployed in the upcoming German or French elections... | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | * | 2025-01-08T13:53:29.404Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar313087ce |
The mirage of EU techno-solutionism to the climate crisis | A co-founder of OpenAI, also a leading AI scientist, recently shared his vision for the future — a planet covered with data centres and solar panels to fuel energy-intensive AI systems. If this vision leaves you uninspired and listless, you’re not alone. As leaders of civil society organisations working on the intersec... | European Environment Bureau | Narrow 'tech-solutionism', and a planet covered with data centres and solar panels, will not solve the climate crisis. Google’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 were almost 50 percent higher than in 2019. And Microsoft’s emissions have also surged since 2020, largely due to the expansion of its data centres. | [
"Digital",
"Green Economy",
"Opinion"
] | digital | 2025-01-07T15:32:01.126Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/ar125f5e3f |
What 2025 holds for EU and Balkans | Following years of political neglect, slow domestic reforms, and global events taking the spotlight, the Balkans have long been ignored by the EU. But with discussions on enlargement becoming more commonplace, alongside a number of reform efforts finally bearing fruit, 2025 presents Brussels with a golden opportunity t... | European Centre for Minority Issues Kosovo | With sufficient political will, 2025 can mark the year the European Union truly ‘returns’ to the Balkans, focusing on integrating current members, preparing candidates for accession, and continuing to facilitate ambitious reform across the region. | [
"EU & the World",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-01-06T11:41:54.663Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/are3af59f0 |
FEMM: Advancing women’s rights and enforcing EU law to expand gender balance | As gender equality continues to face a growing backlash, particularly from far-right groups which now have a far greater number of MEPs in the 2024-2029 parliament, the EU must continue to tackle the democratic deficit when it comes to women’s rights, the chair committee on women's rights and gender equality Lina Gálve... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | Despite progress in embedding women's rights into law, much work remains for the EU Parliament’s women's rights committee. Top priorities include enforcing existing rules and ensuring non-consensual sex is recognised as rape across the EU. | [
"Who's who in the EU Parliament committees?",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-political | 2025-01-06T06:03:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar4b01cb97 |
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