Saturday is the one-year anniversary of Serbia's deadly train station collapse — starting waves of student protests against president Aleksandar Vučić that still reverberate. "It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year", according to one professor of southeastern European history.

The European Commission is spending €2.9bn from its Innovation Fund to help develop new decarbonisation technologies.

The lesson to be learned from October's election in North Cyprus must be that while the Turkish-Cypriots want to join the European family, that will cannot be taken for granted for ever.

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.