As EU rewrites fisheries rules, coastal fishers fear a ‘privatised’ sea

Listen: Why the EU’s next budget talks matter

[Interview] ‘We belong in Europe’: Moldovan president Maia Sandu on Russia, Ukraine and her country’s EU path

"Critical partner" or "unfair" rival? The EU says that its trade relations with China must change - but Beijing retorts that any curbs on its exports will be met with retaliation.

With the EU's already controversial pact on migration's implementation date fast approaching, many member states will face a complex policy net unprepared.

"People want participation. They want to be involved in decision-making", warned one former leader of France's 'Yellow Vests' movement, as a group of European ex-politicians and civil society figures launched the Demcracy27 exercise.

Russia's attacks on Ukraine's gas and coal plants are driving Kyiv's shift to cleaner energy sources. But a lack of access to Europe's capital markets is severely restricting the country's transition.

THIS WEEK: EU parents’ rights, US trade war, and a Western Balkans summit

As fuel runs out in Crimea and Ukrainian drones stalk convoys, Putin’s war bloggers are openly warning men to pack “emergency bags” for a mobilisation the Kremlin can no longer rule out.

Reporter Petra Pavlovičová interviewed Natacha Kazatchkine, secretary general of the @civic-forum.eu, on what's actually happening to civic space inside the EU. It's not pretty. 🧵 euobserver.com/218954/inter...

There are seven months left for European countries to reach an agreement on the EU budget. But negotiations are moving very slowly. So what is at stake for Europeans?

As Russian pressure, disinformation and war next door test her country’s nerves, Maia Sandu is gambling her presidency on a fast, risky push to anchor Moldova firmly inside the EU.

A new EU law on 'recognition of parenthood' will top the agenda of home affairs' ministers in Brussels. MEPs will also get an update on the Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks.

Why is Finland deporting Russian dissidents applying for asylum?

[Interview] Civil society leader to EU: ‘Stop the witch hunt on NGOs before it’s too late for democracy’

This is what Nikita and Olga expect when they land in Moscow after being denied asylum by Finland: "Both of us will be arrested immediately ... and face prison sentences measured in the decades".

As EU lawmakers turn their fire on “foreign-funded” NGOs, Natacha Kazatchkine warns that a coordinated witch-hunt is starving civil society of money, legitimacy and space to defend basic rights.

[Interview] Dependence on US or Chinese tech risks psychological erosion of EU values, ex-commission official warns

Why Pope Leo is right to call on EU to disarm lethal AI weapons

"Citizens can make personal choices - I decided on the Fairphone, with a Murena operating system, which is de-Googled," said Belgian AI expert.

Hungary’s Magyar secures frozen €16.4bn from Brussels – but only if string of conditions met

Why Ukraine pilots ‘love’ Swedish warplanes: Russian MiGs no longer safe (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,555)

From protected park to Trump-linked playground: how Albania is privatising its coastline

UN economist urges African ‘carbon tax’ to answer EU’s border levy

[Interview] Moldova races for EU membership by 2030: ‘We owe this chance to Ukrainians’, minister says

Listen: What are China’s strategic objectives towards Europe?

The European Commission is ready to unlock €10bn of funds for Hungary. But the country must meet deadlines that are closing in fast, and any funds are unlikely released until the end of this year. With a looming 31 August deadline, Hungary essentially has only shot to get everything right.

Israeli settlers betting Trump will frown on new EU blacklist

After Orbán’s record paycheck, Magyar cuts Hungary PM salary (47 days post-election)

With Ukraine poised to field Gripens armed with long‑range missiles, one ace pilot said: "I would even trade for it my only love [Russia's MiG-29]".

Having been shut out of the 'design' of the EU's carbon levy, Africa should hit back with its own carbon tax, says the chief economist at the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

Today, European commissioners will hold a strategic debate on China. While the EU is still figuring out its position, what are China’s strategic objectives when it comes to the EU?

New anti-settler sanctions may seem weak to Israeli-critical EU capitals, but send a message directly to Netanyahu's cabinet.

Hungary’s new prime minister is halving the job’s sky-high pay, pushing quasi-judicial inquiry committees and racing to clinch an EU cash deal - all while discovering he is no longer even his own party’s most popular face.

Spring in Ukraine: May the Force Be With You

France and fossil fuel giant Total seek to keep Rwandan troops in Mozambique as EU pulls funding

Hungary’s quest to unblock frozen EU funds seized by thorny issues like Russian fuel reliance and Ukraine

Ukrainians prepare logistics lockdown for Russian army in the south (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,554)

Fossil fuel industry is using crisis politics to gut EU methane law

[Interview] ‘Belarus is still not Russia’: why Maryja Kalesnikava says the West still has leverage over Lukashenko

A few thoughts on China-EU economic and trade relations

Listen: How cuts to humanitarian aid are worsening the Ebola outbreak

Life in Ukraine and Kyiv goes on. But there are islands of hurt, destruction, loss, scattered across the landscape, hidden behind polite smiles, encoded in the language

Confusion reigns on the future of a Rwandan-led mission in Mozambique for which EU funding ends on Sunday.

Magyar is hoping to unblock over €10.4bn in frozen EU post-pandemic Covid funds following a planned meeting on Friday with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

While Russian officials boast of flags planted deep behind enemy lines, maps, videos and leaked frontline accounts reveal a very different picture.

EU methane regulation might be the next casualty of a dangerous dynamic in Brussels: If industry suffers for whatever reason, policymakers reflexively blame climate legislation.

As Lukashenko tried to ban even her red lipstick from prison, Maryja Kalesnikava describes why she refused exile and chose an 11-year sentence instead.

If the EU insists on imposing economic and trade restrictions on China, China will have no choice but to take corresponding countermeasures.

The outbreak of Ebola currently hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is being fueled by armed conflict — but also, and perhaps above all, by the global decline in humanitarian aid.