A suspected scam network operating out of Serbia duped an estimated 70,000 people worldwide into making bogus investments, profiting €250m in the process. The transnational scheme involved a former Premier League team sponsor and a convicted money launderer, Investigate Europe and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network can reveal, in the first part of our Scam Europe series.

The EU’s latest rule-of-law drama isn’t in Warsaw or Budapest — it’s brewing quietly in Sofia. Unlike Poland and Hungary, Bulgaria isn’t rewriting or bending its constitution to political will, nor is it openly defying Brussels. Instead, it is preserving the form of the law while hollowing out its substance. 

Today, Europe’s leaders gather in Copenhagen under unusually tight security, with Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frideriksen stressing that Europe’s “hybrid war” isn’t some abstract concept, it’s already playing out in the skies above us. But what else is on the agenda?

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.