EU budget talks for 2019 collapse

The US has threatened Austria's top bank with sanctions for doing business in Russia, following earlier talks with German lenders.

Designating a country like Rwanda as 'safe' under EU rules to send an asylum-seeker there requires strict conditions to be met first. But a backdoor clause introduced into EU legislation allows a future commission to strip out those requirements.

The Portuguese go to the polls on Sunday after eight years of socialist rule — what can we expect? What is shaping these elections and what are the citizens worried about?

Despite last month's provisional ruling by the International Court of Justice instructing Israel to stop a "plausible genocide" in Gaza, references to the terrible plight of women and girls in Gaza have been few and far between, writes Shada Islam.

On International Women's Day, EUobserver took a closer look at the last five years of gender policy — has the EU been ambitious enough in achieving equality? What were the main hits and misses? And where needs more work?

New meta-analysis shows that the evidence that economic hardship causes populism is "overwhelming".