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4 days ago
After several decades as a ‘darling’ of the West, the EU is forced to confront the reality that Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, one of the EU’s closest partners in Africa, shares worrying similarities with Vladimir Putin. 
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5 hours ago
EU governments are bracing themselves for the first round of import tariffs from US president Donald Trump, with 25-percent levies on aluminium and steel expected to be announced later on Monday by Washington. 
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6 hours ago
Eight years ago, when Donald Tusk was president of the EU Council, the European Commission described his proposal to no longer divide up arriving asylum seekers among EU states as shameful. Now the commission condones it.
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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

4 months ago
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.
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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X

5 months ago
Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?
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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

1 month ago
Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research and investigations.
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