The Várhelyi spying allegations pose a question the European Union has never had to answer so starkly: what happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined? asks Alberto Alemanno.

The EU is working with G7 partners on a coordinated response to China’s “unjustified” new restrictions on rare earth exports, the bloc’s trade chief said on Tuesday.

Some have told me “You knew the risks" — as if justice were a game of odds, as if international  law were optional, and those who defend it deserve what happens to them. That logic says that might is right, and that fear should rule our conscience, writes Italian MEP Benedetta Scuderi.

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.