EU policymakers will soon unveil how they plan to spend the next seven years of the EU budget. Yet the only fund dedicated solely to protecting and conserving the environment – the LIFE programme – is at risk of being axed. 

Around eight to 10 million people live in regions of Ukraine close to active hostilities. With Russia’s war still ongoing, the country’s recovery seems improbable to many onlookers: too complex of an undertaking. Even countries at peace struggle to implement reforms, let alone a country at war, writes the UN Development Programme.

More than two decades after the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative wrote off over $100bn [€85bn] in developing country sovereign debt, the issue of debt and debt relief are back on the agenda. 

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.