This week, the pan-European platform My Voice, My Choice brought its demands directly to equality commissioner Hadja Lahbib, calling on the EU to set up a fund to guarantee safe and legal access to abortion as an essential aspect of women’s rights and healthcare across all member states.

Former prime minister Andrej Babi and his populist party ANO have been miles ahead in the polls for months. But it is by no means set in stone that the billionaire will become prime minister again.

The EU Commission wants to slash threatened financial sanctions against member states that fail to cut their debt or budget deficits, as part of its economic and financial simplification package published on Thursday.

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.