EU ministers will focus on transport and digital issues this week, including flight-delay rights, vehicle registration, satellite connectivity, and cybersecurity. Items also on this week's agenda include Ukraine's Nato meeting, the 2026 EU budget, enlargement talks with Moldova, and rule-of-law concerns in Slovakia.

The leak of an internal EU paper from 2024 spelling out Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza will make it harder to claim Tel Aviv merits keeping free trade perks. 

Since Sunday (1 June) when Poland again elected a far-right president, one question is back again in Europe: are we living a '1968’ but in the opposite direction? Are we, 57 years after the leftish-liberal student revolution, facing another revolution — this time an very rightwing, conservative one?

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.