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Disabled children and the war against Ukraine

The war against Ukraine and homemade policy decisions are causing disastrous conditions for disabled children living in institutions. The EU should ensure its humanitarian aid involves this vulnerable group while also supporting community-based disability support, writes Florian Sanden. Florian Sanden…

Sánchez takes risk by snubbing Catalans

Is Pedro Sánchez (pictured on election poster) afraid concessions will cost him the next election? Catalan autonomy is unpopular in the rest of Spain (Photo: Helena Spongenberg) At what point will Catalonia’s Republican Left decide enough is enough? The separatists…

The last thing Europe needs is another war on its doorstep

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…

Southern Europe needs a ‘V4’ equivalent

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…

Right of Reply: Hungarian government

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…