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.

In this episode, Evi Kiorri breaks down EUobserver’s exclusive report on controversial comments made by Katharina von Schnurbein, the EU’s antisemitism coordinator, during a May meeting with ambassadors in Tel Aviv.

In Ukraine's strategic sectors like cement, monopolisation is quietly driving up prices, choking competition, and undermining the principles the EU claims to support.

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.