This week, the spotlight is on the United Nations General Assembly and France’s push for formal recognition of a Palestinian state. But will this move, backed by a handful of Western countries, actually change the political reality on the ground?

The European Commission has blamed massive overuse of its IT system needed to declare compliance with the bloc’s new deforestation law for its decision to postpone its implementation for a second year. 

Europe’s dairy industry will be among the big winners from a new EU trade deal with Indonesia, the European Commission has said. Others have called it a "“a neo-colonial agreement that props up polluting industries."

EU states are struggling with upcoming border rules that critics say could led to detention-like centres. Under the new regime authorities will have only seven days to screen a prospective asylum seeker.

Today, we kick off an anniversary campaign to convince new supporting members to join EUobserver's mission of providing the information citizens need to safeguard EU democracy.

Russian spies are still active in the EU capital and have a "higher risk appetite" than before the Ukraine war — despite Belgium's efforts to push back against their plots.