The Global Rights Index for 2025 shows that conditions for European workers are the worst since the index started monitoring labour rights back in 2014.

Moldovan citizens are going to the polls on Sunday, in what is set to be a highly-contested election — with possible fallout for the whole continent. This election is not about left or right; it is about a democratic Moldova or Russia. Here's why it matters.

MEPs pressed the EU Commission on the slow progress of redirecting Russia’s €200bn in frozen assets to Ukraine, amid legal hurdles. One reported plan would see the EU take billions of euros of frozen Russian state cash held in Belgium and send it to Ukraine, while replacing the money with EU-backed bonds. 

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.