A stand-off between the US and the EU over the funding of the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) has left it without guaranteed cash and major budget arrears — despite the mission being formally launched on 1 July. 

The EU has many potential options for Israel sanctions, but few of them would find unanimity, as European capitals await foreign relations chief Kaja Kallas' big call on human rights.

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

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.