EU and African Union officials urged the wider international community to reach agreement on the funding on an anti-Al Shabaab military mission in Somalia that is otherwise due to run out of cash this month, at a meeting in Doha.

The EU Commission is probing both Google and YouTube to see if the platforms are breaching the bloc's competition law by forcing publishers' content into search ‘AI Overviews’ and the video platform training its AI with user-content.

This year has seen stakes in 53 new offshore oil and gas exploration licences awarded by Norway to 20 companies who are set to invest €22.8bn in yet more drilling — up six percent on last year. Yet Norway’s electricity grid runs almost entirely on renewables — because under the Paris Agreement, emissions are counted where fossil-fuels are consumed, not where they are extracted.

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.