Miten oikeistopopulismi haastaa asiantuntijatietoa, kansainvälisiä terveysinstituutioita ja koko näyttöön perustuvan politiikan ideaa ja perustaa? Lynda Gilby tutkii äärioikeiston rajat ylittäviä verk...

Today, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a new Regulation to modernise and simplify the EU\'s public procurement framework to support effective investments in public services and infrastr...

Interview with Meri Koivusalo

<div><img width="525" height="325" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/07/11-1.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" /></div>By racing ahead of the currently stalled EU process, Sweden joins a small group of member states using national bans on 'forever chemicals'.

Results presented at oncology conference in Chicago show Galleri test failed to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses

The EU talks partnership. It negotiates extraction. That contradiction is no longer sustainable.

Abstract. The health and care workforce crisis and gender inequalities are interconnected, threatening healthcare and equity. We turn this ‘unhealthy’ conn

Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

The recent state aid cases of D&#244;vera and Casa Regina Apostolorum demonstrate how competition and healthcare remains a contentious issue, highlighting tensions between both economic and social asp...

The move offers a rare moment of clarity in an increasingly fraught phase of the “special relationship.”

Plans include new taxes and scrapping free spousal coverage to plug funding gap

Secretary Roadkill couldn’t have caused more wreckage if he’d simply carpet-bombed its campus in Atlanta.

Campaigner criticises ‘shortsighted and self-defeating’ decision and says it increases risk to the UK public The polio virus was detected in London sewage for the second time this year, days before ministers withdrew funding for global polio eradication efforts. Its detection reveals the spending cuts to be “shortsighted and self-defeating”, campaigners said. Polio is an extremely infectious viral disease, which typically affects young children under-five. It can cause paralysis by damaging nerves in the spine and base of the brain, and can be life-threatening if it affects muscles used for breathing. Continue reading...

British farmers are still furious that the U.K. didn’t take a harder line in its talks with Canberra.

Commission only released a redacted version amid WHO talks on global vaccine access

The EU’s key water law is under pressure amid intensified lobbying by the mining industry. DeSmog analysis shows sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the European Commission pledged to “review and revise” the Water Framework Directive.

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The European Environment Agency warns “according to some estimates, about eight percent of deaths can be attributed to hazardous chemicals. These numbers could be [an] underestimate." That’s why the E...

<div><img width="600" height="400" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/20260127_EP-198180A_LD1_0374-600x400.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/20260127_EP-198180A_LD1_0374-600x400.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2026/02/20260127_EP-198180A_LD1_0374-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>"The problem that we're pursuing here is not to establish whether things are illegal, it is to establish whether politically it is undesirable," admitted Dirk Gotnik, a Dutch centre-right MEP with the European People's Party.

<div><img width="600" height="400" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2017/07/eaa88ca877028edd31dedc3867d64a15-600x400.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2017/07/eaa88ca877028edd31dedc3867d64a15-600x400.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2017/07/eaa88ca877028edd31dedc3867d64a15-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://static.euobserver.com/2017/07/eaa88ca877028edd31dedc3867d64a15-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://static.euobserver.com/2017/07/eaa88ca877028edd31dedc3867d64a15.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>Competitiveness has become the most abused word in Brussels. It is invoked to justify almost anything — except the one thing Europe actually needs: a strong industrial policy to build quality jobs, to safeguard and reinforce economic capacity in Europe and to achieve shared prosperity.

The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Health conditions in Gaza remain critical as the Israeli occupation undermines healthcare despite the so-called ceasefire and growing infection numbers.

António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.

Expansion of the Mexico City Policy “undermines joint efforts for human rights, global health, peace and stability,” the European Commission said.

Global health organisations have reacted with anger to the new US foreign aid policy, which prohibits all aid recipients, bar military, from performing or

All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their

Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.

A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent