Nuclear waste is accumulating worldwide as permanent repositories lag behind. Bulgaria is facing rising spent-fuel stocks and limited storage, while European nations struggle with delayed disposal projects. Recycling offers potential but remains slow to advance.

The proposed next EU budget has already caused some fuss in Brussels, especially among the bloc's regions. "All that the EU Commission is proposing is in reality ... less money, more priorities”, Jaune Duch, Catalan EU minister, told EUobserver.

With the European Commission unveiling its first ever European housing package on Tuesday, the stakes could not be higher. This housing crisis is not a force of nature, it is a political failure, which means it is within our power to fix, writes MEP Brigitte van den Berg.

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.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

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.