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1 day ago
UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Monday night warned EU leaders to avoid ‘fragmentation’ of the continent’s defence and security resources, in the first step towards a new EU-UK defence pact. 
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1 hour ago
Donald Trump's ideologically-driven funding cuts has spooked the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), whose budget is almost 40 percent US-sourced.
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The EU minimum wage directive set a November 2024 deadline for national capitals to align their minimum wages against two criteria. Only Slovenia and France have met the targets on time.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

3 months ago
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 its institutions.
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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X

5 months ago
Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?
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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

1 month ago
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 and investigations.
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