The EU and Canada signed a defence and security deal at a summit in Brussels on Monday, with the two sides also "comparing notes" on their tortuous ongoing trade talks with the Donald Trump administration.
Russia's deployment of military equipment from Syria into and around Libya's Benghazi coincides with a 173-percent increase of arrivals to Greece from eastern Libya, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen noted in her letter to leaders ahead of Thursday's summit.
The European Parliament has joined the United States in not attending a key development finance summit in Seville next week after rightwing MEPs voted down its position paper on the summit. Many analysts are now warning of the end of development assistance.
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.
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.