The EU's critical raw materials act leaves both investors and indigenous peoples dangerously exposed, writes the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. Without guarantees for consent, investors risk inflaming local conflicts, triggering costly delays, and attracting punitive public backlash.

Activist Oleksandra Matwijtschuk has called on European countries to use the €300bn in Russian frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine, warning that the risk is fueling Putin's war machine.

Children are dying not only from airstrikes, but from dehydration and malnutrition. Entire communities have been forcibly displaced into narrow pockets of southern Gaza, 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.

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.