Privately, most international observers are more grim about Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan — and for all their hope, they still expect the plan to collapse.  But the recent ceasefire itself has demonstrated that peace plans driven by external powers can be effective when backed by carrots and sticks.

Migrants were detained in Albanian centres under an Italy-Albania deal, managed by the Medihospes cooperative on a €133m contract, but legal, operational, and ethical issues persist, an investigation reveals.

The EU's new rules on steel imports are another attempt by Ursula von der Leyen’s commission to bind the EU to Donald Trump’s United States. But that will have a knock-on effect on the EU’s trade relations with others. 

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.