The AfD celebrates its historic win. Saxony-Anhalt’s cultural scene, schools, media and migrant communities are bracing for a future where the far-right decides.

Prik elke dag 5 Nederlandse locaties zo nauwkeurig mogelijk op de kaart. Hoe goed ken jij Nederland?

Commonplace — Waar mensen over praten.

The European Commission has denied that EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas will attend Dialog, the secretive society event hosted by German-American billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, after a leak revealed her name on the list of attendees.

Next time you hear an EU commissioner say the AI Act needs to be 'simplified', the honest translation is: a company asked them to do that, and they said yes.

Instead of funding European commercial alternatives to American chokepoints, Europe should fund the layer underneath them: infrastructure that is useful because it cannot easily be owned.

The recent US report on 'EU censorship' left dozens of names of civil society and EU officials unredacted in emails – while carefully hiding company employee names.

In a fresh effort to recast regulation as censorship, a new 160-page report from the US House Judiciary Committee alleges Brussels pressured Big Tech platforms to censor US speech, including around th...

In a fresh effort to recast regulation as censorship, a new 160-page report from the US House Judiciary Committee alleges Brussels pressured Big Tech platforms to censor US speech, including around th...

Or maybe we should ask a harder question: what if the goal is not to actually communicate – but just to be seen trying?

Since taking office, the new European Parliament has voted on at least 14 resolutions concerning Russia and Ukraine — a test of how its fresh line-up approaches foreign policy. A new data-driven investigation reveals 21 MEPs who most often back or excuse the Kremlin’s actions.

Europe remains the elephant in the room of the Dutch campaign ahead of October snap elections: it is there, it is hugely relevant, yet it is strangely ignored by most parties.

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

Minister van Landbouw Femke Wiersma wil in Brussel wéér gaan vragen om een uitzondering op de Europese mestregels. Follow the Money vroeg de verslagen op van eerdere gesprekken die zij, haar topambten...

The drainpipe in Brussels where a far-right MEP fled a gay orgy still attracts tourists, who take pics to remember what Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán really represents.

Jarenlang verweet de PVV dat Mark Rutte in Brussel ‘bij het kruisje’ tekende en zo meer Europese integratie mogelijk maakte. Maar wat deden PVV’ers toen ze zelf aan de macht waren? In Brussel instemme...

Twee Kamerleden van de VVD dienden gisteravond een opvallende motie in. Ze pleiten ervoor dat de regering zich inzet om twee groene wetten van de EU volledig in te trekken. Het gaat om de CSRD en CSDD...

2,500 new supporting members who care about the future of a clear-eyed, independent view on EU affairs. We won't lie: EU democracy is not dependent on journalism, but on a well-informed public. ...

The EU firm holding €183bn of frozen Russian assets has hired bodyguards for its top executives, according to a joint EUobserver investigation with Belgian daily De Morgen, Belgian weekly Humo, French daily Le Monde, and RFE/RL in Prague.

The EU Commission has unveiled a proposal to ease the regulatory burden on companies, but critics argue it fails to simplify and instead reverses key Green Deal achievements.

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.

Greece has become the latest European government to hire Washington lobbyists as it seeks to curry favour with the capricious president Donald Trump. 

Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of ...

Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?

Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research...

Documentaireprogramma: VPRO's Tegenlicht stopt na volgend jaar. De focus van VPRO komt meer op geopolitiek en buitenland-journalistiek te liggen, stelt de omroep. “Alsof wij ons niet met geopolitiek b...

Governance structures across Europe increasingly cater to wealth preservation rather than public welfare. Tax loopholes, opaque regulatory frameworks, and privatised public goods are symptoms of a sys...

The EU’s leading conservative faction has stepped up its opposition to the bloc’s planned ban on combustion engines, arguing that it breaks the principle of ‘technological neutrality’ and is “irreconcilable...

The number of 'revolving door' cases at the European Investment Bank is rising, pointing to a systemic issue at this key EU institution and endangering its integrity. Alarmingly, the Bank’s response...

Despite widespread opposition from civil society, farmers and unions on both sides of the Atlantic, the European Commission is aiming to seal the deal during the Mercosur summit in Uruguay on Thursday...

The European Commission is setting specific conditions linked to the respect of human rights on future budget support under the EU-Tunisia deal, an official told MEPs on Wednesday.

A Guardian audience editor says Bluesky sent more referral traffic to the news outlet in its first week there than X has any week in 2024.

MEPs narrowly voted down efforts by their right-wing counterparts to effectively ban cannabis, as part of a wider resolution on tobacco smoke.

An analysis by the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy found that Trump’s tariffs would reduce Dutch and EU trade by between one percent and two percent.