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2 days ago
The EU’s collective silence on Big Tech’s increasingly brazen interference in Europe’s sovereign affairs — from Elon Musk’s aggressive promotion of the German far-right on X to Mark Zuckerberg urging Trump to protect Meta from European “censorship” — speaks volumes.  
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3 hours ago
The current situation in Palestine is not the entire responsibility of the European Union. But the killing of 10 Palestinians, blocking the access to the Jenin Hospital as well as setting the West Bank into a lockdown has been met with no Western reaction, including from the EU.
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21 hours ago
As MEPs debate cutting NGOs' funding, fears of an advocacy clampdown are growing. But German centre-right MEP Monika Hohlmeier's attack on NGOs receiving financing from the EU's LIFE programme — despite her side job with a German company benefiting from the same EU funds — raises questions.
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Plenary debate about Cryptocurrencies and the need for global standards

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Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers

Informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers

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European Council meeting

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Rule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forces

3 months ago
Legal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of its institutions.
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Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X

4 months ago
Leaders should ask themselves - is X really what I want my brand to be associated with?
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EUobserver's Top 10 stories of 2024

27 days ago
Allow us at EUobserver to blow our own trumpet as 2024 draws to a close, with a look back at the best of the journalistic path we follow — less frothy personality-driven politics, more policy, research and investigations.
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