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1 day ago
In 2015, a book came out predicting the first 100 days of a Marine Le Pen presidency in France. Now, in 2024, we're about to discover a French far-right government, the first since the Vichy regime, means for real, writes Anton Shekhovtsov.
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5 hours ago
Frontex officers in Bulgaria have been offered experiencing how border guarding actually works in reality on the ground — on the condition they don't report violations, according to internal Frontex documents seen by EUobserver.
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5 hours ago
"Corruption has become part of the system, part of the government, of governance," said József Péter Martin, executive director of Transparency International Hungary.
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What if we are fighting inflation all wrong?

9 days ago
In a new paper, two economists argue that the EU needs a system of price controls and buffer stocks to prevent future inflation and shouldn't just leave it to the ECB to fight price rises through interest rates after the fact.
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How QAnon pushed climate-denialism into European mainstream

2 days ago
Climate-change deniers and anti-vaxxers are converging online in far-right conspiracy groups, according to an investigation by the nonprofit investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports and EUobserver, taking in everything from 15-minute cities to net zero.
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EU Migration ‘schizophrenia’: Need workers, close borders?

5 days ago
With the need for one million foreign workers annually, the EU introduced Talent Partnerships to bring in non-EU citizens to fill gaps in the labour market. Pilot projects only led to a small number of recruitments so far, with partner countries required to cooperate on border protection and returns.
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