A projected 1.5 million Syrian refugees are likely to return home before the end of the year, says the UN refugee agency. Most are likely to returning from neighbouring host states: Turkey, followed by Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.
Not only are these Israeli-backed US-supported aid distribution centres deadly, but they fail to address the mass starvation taking place, warn Human Rights Watch. But there is another way to get food to the people in Gaza: a humanitarian diplomatic convoy to break the Israeli-imposed siege.
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.