Balkan countries have demonstrated the shallowness of the EU's vision of enlargement (Photo: Biblioteca Nacional de Espana) Ukraine’s dogged fight to defend its democracy against a brutal, unprovoked Russian attack deserves the West’s full support: Ukraine’s struggle for survival is…
Ukraine’s membership in the EU would reinvigorate Europe's tired institutions (Photo: European Parliament) The second item on the European Council’s agenda for its June 23-24 summit in Brussels is listed simply as “Ukraine.” The Council will discuss granting Ukraine European…
Eurogas, the gas lobby, has been pushing a narrative to promote fossil gas and greenwash its image to decision makers (Photo: jiva) The European gas lobby annual conference, taking place this Tuesday (14 June) in Brussels, is set to be…
The rules say the EU Commission's regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are — lobbied in writing (Photo:…
If Russia meets the definition, then the only reason not to designate it as a state sponsor of terrorism is political (Photo: Kremlin.ru) The US State Department is currently deliberating over this very question. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky thinks the…
Pro-choice rally in Poland. ‘Women’s rights are human rights and these are always non-negotiable. It is time for our European treaties to reflect this' (Photo: Eric Maurice) After decades of hard global work to ensure the fundamental sexual and reproductive…
The then heads of state and government of the EU member states, with — in the centre — the late Jacques Chirac of France and the late Helmut Kohl of Germany, at the signing of the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam…
The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh last month (Photo: Screengrab/Al Jazeera) The assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was widely condemned, especially by the European Union. The image of the EU Representative in Palestine trying to mediate for Israeli Occupation…
Sarajevo. Bosnia was once the poster child for international reconstruction efforts, flooded with attention and $14bn of international aid, making it a laboratory for arguably the most expensive and innovative democratisation experiment in history (Photo: Michał Huniewicz) If Bosnia and…
With the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, southern EU member states constitute a fairly homogeneous group led by pro-European governments and pro-EU leaderships, despite their governments belonging to different political groups (Photo: morberg) Regional groupings have been gaining influence in the…
The Hungarian parliament in Budapest (Photo: Wikimedia) Dear Editor, While authors Emese Pásztor and Sanjay Sethi in EUobserver take a rather biased stance on Hungary’s state of danger due to the Covid pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, in…
The CSTO, a military alliance of Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia is meeting in Moscow next week to discuss Ukraine (Photo: kremlin.ru) The leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), including Russia, Kazakhstan,…