: The European Parliament has voted to delay EU methane rules for oil and gas importers by three years, two more than the commission proposed. The vote also extends the delay to European producers and opens the door to reopening the law in
: The EU's border force Frontex is getting overhauled next Tuesday by a European Commission determined to give the Warsaw-based agency a larger role in deportations, more resources, and more agility to
: The kill zone’s constant drone buzz, mined roads and invisible Russian networks are making basic things, such as a phone call, into life-or-death gambles for exhausted Ukrainian
: If there is no offtake market in continental Europe, no-ne is going to take the risk. The thing is, EU buyers already buy plenty of gas (and oil) from the
: Outlets such as EUobserver do more than report on European affairs. They provide a space where different perspectives meet, complex policy debates become accessible and stakeholders can better understand the choices shaping the continent. In doing so, they can help connect the communities that make the European project work. This is also the thinking behind our initiative to develop a media product dedicated to the business
: The messages, seen by EUobserver and published here in full, now form evidence in a Belgian police investigation into Reynders on money-laundering charges, which paints them in a potentially criminal
: France needs spending cuts, but its politics can’t deliver them. Former Macron adviser and economist Shahin Vallée on the protests, Le Pen and Mélenchon’s debt plans, and the dilemma holding back ECB
: On Sunday, Europeans will once again turn their clocks back by one hour. The familiar ritual will again raise the same question: did the European Union not decide years ago to end seasonal clock
: Katharina von Schnurbein caused controversy in May 2025 when she briefed EU ambassadors in Tel Aviv that proposed EU trade sanctions on Israel were based on "rumours about Jews, as opposed to
: An Egyptian national who sought protection in Italy after arriving on the island of Lampedusa in August may end up dealing a constitutional blow to the EU's asylum laws after seeking legal
: Starshield, the defense version of Starlink, seems to remain slow despite US assurances that it was fully back. And journalists from Russia reveal what is being discussed by Kremlin and US officials as they seek a deal on
: Beth Oppenheim, fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains how a shift in Israeli society will shape voting on 27 October. Her analysis groups Israeli political forces into liberal Zionists, nationalists, religious nationalists, and ultra-Orthodox
: Bulgaria holds its presidential election on Sunday. A moment to decide whether to consolidate power around the current prime minister - prioritising stability over institutional
: The UN food agency helping Palestinians and others in need across the world has come under scrutiny for its contract with Palantir – the controversial US tech and AI company used by various international border police and militaries to sort data and better identify
: It’s comforting to imagine an Israeli government formed by anyone left of Benjamin Netanyahu will steer instinctively towards international expectations. But a more centrist Israeli government, like any elected government anywhere, will operate within the political space created by the policy priorities and the empathetic capacity of its voters. There isn’t much room for
: In defence, the bigger the order, the longer the production line and the lower the cost of each unit. That is a big reason why Europe has long bought American, for price as much as for technology. Europe could match it by buying together and sharing out the work along the value
: While US secretary of state Marco Rubio publicly echoes Vladimir Putin’s inflated claims about Russian gains in Donetsk, Ukrainian crews on the ground are using scarce drones to snatch back their own wounded from territory Moscow says it
: EU officials vowed an end to Arctic oil and gas buying, as the European Commission presented its new Arctic strategy. But while the document commits to keeping Arctic oil and gas “in the ground,” it drops the call for an international
: The European Parliament called on more spending to build affordable houses, using funds for regional development that currently comprise up to a third of the present EU
: The EU's top diplomat has backed the idea of a Black Sea naval mission to protect grain ships from Russian drones - but this would require much more than Europe's existing Red Sea operation, while air policing might be more
: Even an eventual change of American leadership doesn't mean the US's bizarre glorification of violence goes away. It is a persistent stain, constantly eroding away at the values of an open and free society. Both are worth defending here in Europe. The US has chosen its own path. Let it walk it
: Benjamin Netanyahu has not been Israel’s prime minister for every one of those years. Yet even out of office, Israeli politics rarely escaped his gravitational pull. Hungarians know something about that
: As Europe pours billions into defence and talks up ‘strategic autonomy’, it is quietly undermining its own power by ignoring the students who say they can’t afford the education, housing or stability needed to keep the continent
: Defending human and environmental rights could get you in prison, or at least detained - as happened to Italian MEP Benedetta Scuderi. She talks to EUobserver about the double-standard in policing of left and rightwing demos, and the housing crisis sparking much of the youth
: Moscow has concentrated its biggest force near Pokrovsk and faked new front lines on paper. Meanwwhile, the real battle around Dobropillia is reshaping how Europe must think about any ceasefire, which could lock in Russian
: The EU is pressing allies, such as the UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Norway to help close a €70bn shortfall in Ukraine’s funding for next
: My beef with both far-right and far-left populists is that they're false prophets. In Europe, at least, the squeezes on public services, high taxes, debt burdens and crippling costs of living are legacies of the Covid pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Iran and a eurozone crisis that was never fully resolved. These can’t be wished away, and they won’t be cured with caps on immigration, higher taxes on the rich or the promise of earlier
: Sunday’s vote could reshape the country’s political future. But even a breakthrough for the student movement would leave a deeper question: can democratic change take root in institutions that protesters say have been hollowed
: Five Brussels municipalities, home to nearly one-in-three of the city's residents, have now voted to drive fossil-fuel advertising off their streets. In the city where Europe's climate laws are written, the industry's grip on billboards and on lawmakers has to be broken
: An Italian MEP has gone on hunger strike over the besieged Ukrainian town's lack of access to food, medicine, clean water and basic care. The only route to escape is tapped with mines and rife with attack
: The ICC has received the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The court's president judge thanked lawmakers for the recognition and said "there is no peace without justice and no security without
: As the EU enters an unprecedented electoral supercycle, the question is whether it can defend its integrity as the forces challenging it gain influence over its
: While Washington quietly orders Starlink’s military network throttled and Moscow steps up long-range attacks, Ukrainian forces are still capable of audacious
: France and Germany want the rules for cars carved out of the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act and moved into a separate automotive package. Their joint paper also spells out how emissions targets will be
: Volodomyr Zelensky flew into Brussels warning that Washington’s surprise ‘diesel deal’ with Moscow risks becoming the thin end of a wider sanctions rollback - just as Ukraine faces a brutal winter, dwindling air defences and a fresh scramble in EU capitals over money, missiles and frozen Russian
: The UK government has once again put touring in Europe on the agenda. As London and Brussels rebuild their relationship, cultural mobility should be treated as part of the economic infrastructure, rather than as an
: Europe's leadership at the COP17 in Yerevan next week will depend not only on what we defend in the negotiations, but also on what we are able to implement and finance at
: MEPs in Strasbourg will respond to Donald Trump's sanctions against the International Criminal Court, debate Russian drones in the Black Sea and decide positions on short- and long-term
: Friedrich Merz wanted more time for combustion-engine cars. Emmanuel Macron wanted tougher rules on what qualifies as “Made in Europe.” Now, the two countries have traded one for the other. Both can claim victory at home, and both say they want the same thing: to strengthen Europe’s auto industry against Chinese competition. But the trade-off undermines that very
: For now, Ukrainians are Europe’s human shields. If their defence breaks, a triumphant, battle-hardened Russia will seek its next victim, while the US may decide to back a winner not a loser. For now, Europe’s problem is only a lack of will-power: a nice problem to
: Empty shelves and too-expensive fuel stocks are the last drop in a sea of negligence faced by southern Italians every day. Life at Europe's edges has left many feeling failed by their government, while EU policies could be making things
: Spain’s Left has missed its last chance to unite ahead of the snap election on 29 November — a historic failure, not so much because the numbers don’t add up, but because it now fails to offer an
: The Quality Jobs Act covers common standards for being able to ‘go home’ and disconnect from remote work, and limits AI's role in recruitment or scrutiny of workers’
: From under-resourced schools in France to Spain’s housing crisis and student protests in Albania, the immediate grievances differ. Yet they raise a common question: can young people turn education into secure work and an independent
: Andrej Babiš vows no policy retreat after ANO's election flop. With the opposition gaining ground in a weekend senate vote in Czech Republic, the prime minister has moved to scrap public media license
: MEPs insist that they won't allow EU governments to dictate the terms of the bloc's next seven-year budget, and have called for an extra €25bn in spending on the EU's foreign policy
: Slovak MEP Lucia Yar reflects on her NGO-led trip to the Middle East: 'When I walk through the streets of Brussels, I see more Palestinian flags than I saw during my entire stay in the West Bank, where the Palestinian flag is perceived as a
: Kaczyński is hoping to make a political comeback in elections in 2027 in a coalition with two far-right parties, the Confederation of Liberty and Independence and the Confederation of the Polish
: The EU Commission will issue its report cards on the countries in accession talks to join the bloc next week. Defence talks with the UK and a key vote on CO2 emissions will also top the agenda in
: The COP17 biodiversity summit wrapped up on Saturday morning in Yerevan. Delegates from nearly every country were in the room, yet very little came out of
: Zelensky’s government has shown it can move at lightning speed to please EU partners on some minority rights, yet same-sex partnership and hate-crime bills remain stuck in the Ukrainian
: Journalists in Egypt are being jailed and fined in a crackdown that poses questions on the EU's multi-billion deal with Cairo -where human rights are a
: Oleshky’s rare ceasefire has let some trapped civilians flee and aid convoys edge in. But now, both armies are racing to fortify positions for the next round of fighting across the Dnipro