Bulgaria is due to adopt the euro on 1 January 2026. There has been much debate in the country in the run-up to joining the eurozone, with many citizens remaining sceptical. In contrast, the vast majority of Hungarians support the euro — yet the government is not taking any steps to achieve this.

The result is not merely famine, but engineered collapse. Children are dying not only from airstrikes, but from dehydration and malnutrition. Entire communities have been forcibly displaced into narrow pockets of southern Gaza like Rafah, only to find aid arbitrarily delayed, often for days or weeks. In some areas, only one meal a day reaches tens of thousands of people. Elsewhere, nothing arrives at all. This system is not random. It is the product of a tightly managed policy — one that has dismantled Gaza’s civilian aid infrastructure and placed the flow of humanitarian assistance under military coordination, through intermediaries operating without transparency.

Progress on the Indonesia-EU trade agreement is an opportunity to rebuild a critical relationship at a time of unprecedented change, writes Eddy Martono, chairman of the Indonesian Palm Oil Association.

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.

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.