EU-China relations are at an “inflection point”, EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a summit in Beijing on Thursday. But Brussels officials reported some progress towards China loosening its rules on rare earths exports and on the climate.  

EU member states failed to agree on suspending Israel's access to the bloc’s Horizon research programme during a meeting on Tuesday — despite growing criticism over Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

The EU will never be able to live down the fact that, through its inaction, it has collectively offered blanket support to Israel for months. This collective moral abdication, refusal to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement and continued arms sales have triggered a crisis of EU legitimacy, writes Shada Islam.

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.