Pressure is mounting over the safety of the Gaza aid flotilla as it edges closer to the Strip's shore, amid fears of an Israeli interception overnight, and after what organisers call “psychological warfare” from jamming communications and navigation systems.

The EU Commission wants to slash threatened financial sanctions against member states that fail to cut their debt or budget deficits, as part of its economic and financial simplification package published on Thursday.

Today, foreign tech giants freely profit from our children’s attention — while we know that social media can have profoundly negative effects on their health and well-being. This needs to stop to protect children from a digital world run by algorithms beyond control. That is why we call for a European age limit of 15 for social media. 

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.