The EU unveiled a €800bn plan to fast-track defence spending, streamline permitting, and encourage mergers in a bid to rebuild its fragmented arms industry and prepare for "high-intensity conflict". “We’re not trying to be alarmist here, but we’re just facing the facts,” EU commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters.

The European Union must legally review its relations with Israel, a new study commissioned by left-leaning MEPs reveals.

To harmonise child sex abuse criminal law across the EU, it is essential similar offences are recognised in all member states. In this respect, we will outlaw the horrific 'instruction manuals' found in the darkest parts of the internet, and also criminalise AI-generated CSAM and tools to create such material, write EPP and Green MEPs.

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.