While the EU supported declarations at the G20 heads of state summit and the AU-EU summit, acknowledging the need for a debt architecture reform, its actions in New York last week told a different story, warns Eurodad.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for private reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

In order to strengthen public procurement in the EU, the European Commission in April 2023 launched the Public Buyers Community Platform: a comprehensive and secure platform that connects public authorities and other stakeholders to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing at scale.

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.