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Listen: UN says global climate plans fall short, as the EU considers easing its 2040 target | The world’s latest climate plans are in and they fall drastically short. More than sixty countries have submitted their updated commitments to the United Nations, outlining how they’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. But according to the UN’s own analysis published today, these plans would only cut global carb... | Evi Kiorri | More than sixty countries have submitted their updated commitments to the United Nations, outlining how they’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. But according to the UN’s own analysis published today, these plans would only cut global carbon emissions by around 10% compared with 2019 levels. So, are governments... | [
"Green Economy",
"Health & Society"
] | green-economy | 2025-10-28T21:57:05.655Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar31d3c74f |
Women and peace-making are essential, not an 'add-on' - as Gaza proves | The United Nations on Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) was adopted 25 years ago — its anniversary falls on 31 October. It was a landmark commitment to include women meaningfully in conflict prevention and peace-building, but too often, it has fallen short. Having helped draft Resoluti... | The Berghof Foundation | It's a myth that including women is merely a “nice-to-have.” Research shows that peace agreements are 20 percent more likely to last at least two years and 35 percent more likely to last fifteen years when women are involved in negotiations. Yet, in high-level talks, such as efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, wome... | [
"EU & the World",
"Africa",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-28T14:31:26.851Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar62ac40a9 |
How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy | Across Europe, a coordinated assault on civil society is unfolding with surgical precision. From Brussels to Budapest, from Bratislava to Sofia, EU institutions and national governments are deploying a five-step playbook to eliminate the independent organisations that stand between corporate power and the public intere... | The Good Lobby | The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all while continuing to demand NGOs monitor consumer protections that governments refuse to fund themselves, warns new EUobse... | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-10-28T11:31:47.303Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar1c67c9a3 |
Irish election deepfake AI video shines light on lack of EU-wide rules | Last Friday (24 October), Catherine Connolly won the Irish presidential election, despite an AI-generated deepfake of her dropping out of the race circulating before the election. In an AI video, a realistic RTÉ News broadcast reported that the now Irish president-elect had dropped out of the race and that the election... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | AI-generated videos of then Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly dropping out of the race circulated online last week. Currently there is no EU-wide legal consensus on digital likeness rights, leaving each member state to decide its own rules. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | digital | 2025-10-27T15:01:17.067Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/ar9b098635 |
Listen: Why is everyone so eager to meet with China? | This week, the European Union and China will hold talks in Brussels aimed at easing trade tensions, focusing on Beijing’s restrictions on exports of rare earths and magnets, materials vital for Europe’s automotive, defence, green tech and digital industries. All this, as Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping to discuss trade a... | Evi Kiorri | This week, the European Union and China will hold talks in Brussels aimed at easing trade tensions. All this, as Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping to discuss trade and critical minerals on the other side of the world. But why is everyone so eager to meet Chinese officials?
| [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-27T13:11:18.328Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0c1ca88c |
Will pesticides be let off hook by EU 'omnibus' deregulation? | The European Commission’s “simplification omnibus” review is a test: will it defend citizens’ health and Europe’s ecosystems, or yield to agrobusiness pressure and roll back pesticide protections under the disguise of ‘simplification’? Eighty percent of the responses to the commission’s consultation on its omnibus came... | PAN Europe | Better enforcement of EU pesticide use is not bureaucracy. It is what keeps Europe’s food, water, and people safe. More than 120 NGOs are urging the EU Commission to strengthen implementation of the bloc's pesticide law, and thousands of citizens responded to the commission’s consultation. | [
"EU Political",
"Green Economy",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-10-27T11:38:44.838Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar10983b93 |
A repeat Dutch election, China rare earth exports and von der Leyen in Nordics This WEEK | Dutch voters head to the polls on Wednesday (29 October), with far-right anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders topping the polls, as he aims to repeat his surprise win from the parliamentary elections two years ago. The election itself only came after Wilders pulled his hard-right Freedom Party (PVV) out of a fragile four-p... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday, with Geert Wilders’ party leading. Trade talks with China, Ursula von der Leyen attending the Nordic Council, and ECB decisions mark a busy week, while Donald Trump heads to Asia for the Apec and Asean summits — amid a tariff-war with China. | [
"Nordics",
"Agenda"
] | agenda | 2025-10-27T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/agenda/ar1677d44a |
Sex education remains a tricky topic in many European countries | About 80 percent of children and young people in Croatia now learn about sexuality from the internet. This figure, revealed in a study by the Croatian Institute of Public Health , is extremely worrying, says the country's ombudswoman for equality, Višnja Ljubičić. But it is hardly a surprise — given that comprehensive ... | Voxeurop | Some look with envy at countries such as Sweden, where sex education was introduced in the 1940s and made compulsory in 1955. Even in kindergartens, the topic is at least touched upon. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2025-10-27T06:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ar70d7a98b |
TikTok and Meta breaching the DSA, EU Commission finds | The European Commission preliminarily found that both TikTok and Meta are in violation of the bloc's D igital Services Act (DSA) on Friday (24 October). Both TikTok and Meta platforms breach the DSA's requirement to provide adequate access to their data for researchers, according to the findings, which also report that... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | Both TikTok and Meta are breaching the DSA, according to EU Commission. The platforms are not transparent enough with their data for research use, and Meta makes reporting illegal content and appealing moderation decisions too difficult. | [
"Rule of Law",
"Digital"
] | rule-of-law | 2025-10-24T11:05:24.381Z | https://euobserver.com/rule-of-law/ar493fa366 |
Israel blocking €43m of Gaza aid despite ceasefire, NGOs say | Israeli authorities have rejected 94 percent of aid delivery requests from international relief organisations during the first two weeks of the current ceasefire, leaving €43m worth of critical supplies stranded at border crossings, according to 41 humanitarian groups working in Gaza. Between 10 and 21 October, Israel ... | Hannah Kriwak | Israeli authorities have rejected 94 percent of aid delivery requests from international relief organisations — leaving €43m worth of critical supplies stranded at border crossings, according to 41 humanitarian groups working in Gaza. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-24T10:46:13.291Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar40280aa8 |
Why we should worry about little-known 'crisis mechanism' in EU military industrial plan | One of the European Defence Industrial Programme ’s least discussed but most alarming features is the creation of a special “crisis mechanism”. Under this framework, basic protections set out in the EU’s Working Time Directive could be suspended, allowing for extended shifts and longer workweeks in arms production. The... | The Left | The new EU programme for the military industry contains a little-discussed regulation to override workers’ rights and environmental protection whenever an undefined defence security of supply crisis is declared, warn Left MEPs Marc Botenga and Ozlem Demirel. | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Labour",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-24T09:50:54.034Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar58aafd22 |
EU leaders clash on 2035 engine ban, but experts warn subsidising demand is key | EU leaders clashed over a planned 2035 ban on combustion engines at their summit in Brussels on Thursday (23 October). The EU has already agreed on the ban, but Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Germany's Friedrich Merz have called for the ban to be overturned, the latter vowing to "do everything" to convince other leaders in... | Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent. | As EU leaders clashed over the 2035 combustion engine phase-out at their Brussels summit, economists say governments should focus on boosting demand for European-made electric vehicles instead — perhaps by copying a French eco-bonus model. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-10-23T17:01:43.812Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar3cf2bb45 |
MEPs to put steel, suspension, and sunset clauses into US trade deal | MEPs are planning to rewrite parts of the EU-US trade pact, putting in place clauses to quickly suspend or terminate the deal if US president Donald Trump backtracks on any of its provisions. At a press conference in Strasbourg on Thursday (23 October), Bernd Lange, the German social democrat who chairs the European pa... | Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya. | MEPs are planning to re-write parts of the EU-US trade pact, putting in place clauses to quickly suspend or terminate the deal if US president Donald Trump backtracks on any of its provisions. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-23T13:11:04.513Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ard7080a43 |
Listen: EU leaders greenlight new Russia sanctions and debate Ukraine reparation loan | EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday (23 October) to discuss matters ranging from defence and housing to climate targets, but the agenda is clearly topped by Ukraine. Two big items stand out, the so-called “reparation loan” using frozen Russian assets, and the EU’s 19th sanctions package against Moscow, which wa... | Evi Kiorri | EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday to discuss matters ranging from defence and housing to climate targets, but the agenda is clearly topped by Ukraine. But can Europe turn political agreement into real financial support for Kyiv without crossing legal red lines? | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-23T12:18:33.369Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar13f050b2 |
Outrage as Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief | Civil society groups have decried the appointment of a senior ex-Meta lobbyist as one of Ireland's new data protection commissioners. Niamh Sweeney was announced in September as the pick for third commissioner for Ireland's already highly-controversial Data Protection Commission (DPC), rounding out its three-person lea... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | Civil society is outraged by Ireland data protection agency — the key one in the EU — picking a former Meta lobbyist as its new commissioner. | [
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | * | 2025-10-23T08:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar6c78a452 |
Listen: Brussels scales back deforestation law to ease pressure on small firms | The European Commission has changed course, again, on its landmark anti-deforestation law, known as the EUDR. After weeks of speculation about yet another delay, Brussels has now decided not to postpone the law for everyone. Instead, it’s introducing a series of exemptions and tweaks, especially for small businesses an... | Evi Kiorri | The European Commission has changed course, again, on its landmark anti-deforestation law, known as the EUDR. But what does this all mean in practice? | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-10-22T16:16:12.521Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arfd04dd09 |
Global leaders’ meeting on women in Beijing promotes new, accelerated process for development | Women play an important role in creating, promoting and carrying forward human civilization. Advancing the cause of women is a shared responsibility of the international community. Thirty years ago, the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing . The conference adopted the landmark Beijing Declaration and Pl... | Ambassador Cai Run is the head of the mission of China to the European Union. | President Xi Jinping attended the 2025 Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women in Beijing, and promised in the next five years, China will donate another $10m to UN Women and earmark a quota of $100m in China’s Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund for implementing development cooperation projects for women and ... | [] | stakeholders | 2025-10-22T13:12:41.257Z | https://euobserver.com/stakeholders/araee0af84 |
On eve of EU summit over 2,000 scientists call for 90-95% emissions cut | More than 2,000 scientists from across the continent have urged EU leaders to commit to cutting emissions by 90-95 percent by 2040 at their summit meeting on Thursday (23 October). The 2,178 signatories to an open letter timed their appeal to coincide with the European Council meeting, where heads of state will discuss... | Hannah Kriwak | The EU is debating its 2040 climate targets — amid calls from scientists and officials to treat emissions cuts as an economic opportunity rather than a burden. But disagreements among key member states — not least France and Germany — have delayed a decision. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-22T13:11:20.830Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arf84b0898 |
Europe’s punitive welfare systems are fuelling the far-right | Rightwing populists are reportedly adopting a new strategy to woo European voters: the promise of higher welfare benefits . This pro-welfare stance is paying off. Rightwing parties in Sweden (Swedish Democrats) and Austria (Freedom Party of Austria) have seen their ratings rise as they promise more state spending on ci... | Olivier De Schutter | As Europe punishes its poorest citizens, the far-right finds fertile ground to flourish, warns Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. And this pro-welfare stance is paying off. Far-right parties in Sweden and Austria have seen their ratings rise as they promise more state spendi... | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-10-22T09:35:27.692Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar4588f76a |
New holes in latest U-turn on EU anti-deforestation law | The European Commission has U-turned on plans to delay its landmark anti-deforestation law by another year, instead setting out a series of new exemptions for small businesses, farmers, and major manufacturers. Last month, the commission said that massive overuse of its in-house IT system needed to declare compliance w... | Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya. | The European Commission has U-turned on plans to delay its landmark anti-deforestation law by another year, instead setting out a series of new exemptions for small businesses, farmers, and major manufacturers. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-22T05:32:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar8600e8ee |
Listen: Friedrich Merz under fire over ‘dangerous’ migration remarks | Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, is facing strong criticism for what many describe as “dangerous rhetoric” on immigration. During a visit to the eastern state of Brandenburg, Merz said that Germany still had “a problem in the cityscape” and that his interior minister was working to enable and carry out large-scale... | Evi Kiorri | Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, is facing strong criticism for what many describe as “dangerous rhetoric” on immigration. But why have these remarks sparked such a strong reaction across Germany and what do they reveal about the country’s political mood on migration? | [
"Migration",
"EU Political"
] | migration | 2025-10-21T15:35:54.957Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ar2c65d518 |
Germany's Merz under pressure from CDU to abandon 'firewall' against AfD | As Germany readies itself for five separate state elections early next year, chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right Christian Democrats faces a dilemma over how to handle the surging influence and popularity of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). In the run-up to the CDU party convention last weekend, voices... | Hannah Kriwak | As Germany prepares for five state elections next year, chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right CDU faces a dilemma over how to handle the surging influence and popularity of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). | [
"Migration",
"EU Political"
] | migration | 2025-10-21T14:22:11.263Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/arb5413447 |
45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds | The methane emissions from the 45 world's major meat and dairy processing companies dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, a new report found on Monday (20 October) . The report, from Foodrise , Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy also revealed that... | Hannah Kriwak | Global meat and dairy production's environmental footprint dwarfs that of all EU member states and the UK combined, according to a new report. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-10-20T15:42:34.738Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arbe11b6de |
Amazon cloud outage prompts new questions on EU reliance on US tech | Europe found many of their online applications disfunctional on Monday (20 October) when there was a major disruption to Amazon's cloud storage — prompting concerns over overreliance on US tech. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing platform, which services major online companies like Snapchat, and Zoo... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | Amazon Web Services went down globally on Monday, affecting services used in Europe. Tech experts used the outage to push for stronger European digital sovereignty. | [
"EU & the World",
"Digital"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-20T15:16:49.108Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar6c2da1b5 |
Listen: With Frozen funds and pipelines, EU leaders close to reaching a deal for Ukraine | Today, EU energy ministers are meeting to decide the future of Russian fossil fuels in the bloc, after years of delays and exemptions. At the same time, leaders are debating how to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s defence, hoping to reach a deal this week. But can Europe finally act decisively on both ene... | Evi Kiorri | EU energy ministers are meeting to decide the future of Russian fossil fuels in the bloc, after years of delays and exemptions. At the same time, leaders are debating how to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s defence, hoping to reach a deal this week. | [
"EU & the World",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-20T11:28:18.496Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arb694ab0d |
Back to the future: the European biocircular economy | The bioeconomy has always been a backbone for Europe. Food and agriculture, of course, but also the forest-based sector, which for millennia has provided housing materials, energy, and trade opportunities. Wood also fuelled early industrial development, particularly in the mining and metals industries, and made Europea... | Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget | Excluding harvested biomass from the circular economy undermines the EU's overall climate and growth objectives and creates confusion in policy along the wood-based value chain. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2025-10-20T10:57:27.312Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ared0147b9 |
Holding a Trump-Putin summit in Budapest would be a charade | If anyone ever wondered what the overlapping goals of Russian and US foreign policy might be, the announcement of a potential summit between president Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Budapest leaves little doubt. The joint objectives — at least for this US administration — are unmistakably to weaken and div... | Democracy Institute of the Central European University | Vladimir Putin would have to cross the airspace of at least one, if not more, EU and Nato member states to reach Budapest. This would mean that one EU country, under US pressure, would have to breach its obligations under EU sanctions and the ICC arrest warrant to grant safe passage to a convicted war criminal and perp... | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political",
"Ukraine",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-20T10:54:47.355Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arfd1246a4 |
EU summit on Ukraine and defence, plus Belarus and Sakharov prize This WEEK | EU leaders will meet in Brussels on Thursday (23 October) to discuss four main priorities: defence preparedness, Russia's frozen assets , support for Ukraine, and competitiveness tied to the green transition and digital sovereignty. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to join via videoconference to updat... | Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE. | EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss defence, Ukraine aid, Russian assets, competitiveness, and climate goals. Also this week, ministers meet to discuss Russian sanctions and energy, while MEPs debate the Middle East, Belarus, and announce the Sakharov Prize. | [
"Agenda"
] | agenda | 2025-10-20T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/agenda/araff795b4 |
Why is the EU operating a politics of secrecy on chemical safety? | While four out five Europeans are worried about the impact of harmful chemicals on their health and the environment, the EU Commission is keeping the public in the dark over lobby battles to regulate toxic products. For example, the commission has spent almost three years refusing to release full documents relating to ... | ClientEarth | The EU Commission justified its refusal to share the documents by admitting it is worried that it will not be able to withstand the “unnecessary pressure from stakeholders” ‒ in other words, the lobbying ‒ that could result from the documents’ release. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2025-10-20T04:32:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar4236b709 |
Privacy and AI fears, in EU bonfire of digital red tape | EU data laws are to become more business-friendly after 19 November, when the EU Commission unveils its "digital omnibus" to cut red tape, amid privacy and security concerns. The omnibus will target rules on cookies and other tracking technologies, cybersecurity incident reporting, and tweaks to the EU's flagship Artif... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | EU data laws are to become more business-friendly after 19 November, when the EU Commission unveils its "digital omnibus", amid privacy and security concerns. | [
"EU & the World",
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-18T05:35:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar721f4c30 |
EU battles to phase out Russian fossil-fuels by either 2027 or 2028 | “Russia weaponised energy like it weaponises information, like it weaponises all the possibilities that it has to influence the decisionmaking process in the EU but not only in EU – this is something we have to keep in mind to avoid aggression of Russia in the future,” the Ukrainian ambassador to the EU, Vsevolod Chent... | Hannah Kriwak | Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Commission has pushed to phase out fossil fuels from Moscow – but some member states, especially landlocked countries like Hungary and Slovakia, have been reluctant to do so. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy",
"Ukraine"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-17T12:15:38.179Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ara867a0db |
Trump praised 'crime-free Egypt, but it's the EU who's paying for the repression | During last weekend's hastily-arranged Gaza Peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, US president Donald Trump stood beside Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi before a hall of cameras and European dignitaries, among them Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, and declared with satisfaction: “There is very little crime in Egypt; i... | Shimaa Samy | During last weekend's Gaza Peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, US president Donald Trump stood beside Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and declared with satisfaction: "There is very little crime in Egypt; it’s a strong system.” In fact, the Egyptian regime is based on systemic violence, writes one formerly imprisoned journali... | [
"EU & the World",
"Africa",
"Health & Society",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-17T09:38:30.835Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar953fd940 |
Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds | During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest that the political mainstream itself is partly responsible for their growing success. Far-right parties made significant gains in the June 2024 elections, gr... | Hannah Kriwak | During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is partly responsible for their growing success. | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-17T05:32:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arffb2b2c8 |
MEPs confront Meta about removing political ads | MEPs confronted Meta's "allergy to EU legislation" during a debate in the European Parliament on Thursday (16 October) — raising their concerns over the company's decision to end all political, electoral, and social advertising in the EU in the wake of a new law. The scrutiny session in the internal market and consumer... | Owen Carpenter-Zehe | MEPs grilled a Meta lobbyist over its decision to cease political ads in the EU after new political advertising regulations | [
"Digital",
"EU Political"
] | digital | 2025-10-16T15:18:57.161Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/ar10ebd27b |
European Investment Fund financed Israeli spyware company Paragon | The European Investment Fund (EIF) provided venture capital for Israeli spyware firm Paragon Solutions , confirmed a spokesperson for the European Investment Bank Group, to which the EIF belongs. “In January 2020, the EIF signed a commitment of €21.2m with Aurora Europe SCSp, a fund-of-funds with a total size of €85m a... | Apache | The European Investment Fund backed Israeli spyware firm Paragon Solutions in 2020 through a local venture fund, according to a new investigation by Belgian investigative site Apache. Founded a year earlier by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak and an Israeli ex-intelligence chief, Paragon’s spyware has been used against act... | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-16T14:15:27.675Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar1b6908da |
Listen: Inside Greece’s 13-hour workday reform | Greece’s parliament is voting today on a controversial labour reform proposed by the conservative government, allowing employees under “exceptional circumstances” to work up to 13 hours a day, for up to 37 days a year. The government insists the measure is voluntary and designed to help workers earn more without havin... | Evi Kiorri | Greece’s parliament is voting today on a controversial labour reform proposed by the conservative government, allowing employees under “exceptional circumstances” to work up to 13 hours a day, for up to 37 days a year. The government insists the measure is voluntary, but what does this new bill change for workers? | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2025-10-16T11:13:18.842Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ar3a26ee3f |
This weekend's election in a European country no one recognises: North Cyprus | When Turkish Cypriots go to the polls on Saturday (19 October), they will not just be asked to choose a candidate to serve a five-year term as president of the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — they will be required to make a decision over whether to orient themselves in the direction of Turkey or Euro... | Cyprus Mail | The election in North Cyprus (recognised only by Turkey) has two protagonist candidates — the pro-Turkey ally of Erdoğan, Ersin Tatar, who insists that the only solution to the Cyprus problem is a two-state solution, and the pro-Europe opposition-backed Tufan Erhürman, who wants to return to negotiations based on a fed... | [
"EU & the World",
"EU Political",
"EU Elections",
"Opinion"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-16T10:55:24.484Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar45354379 |
Europeans paid €930bn extra due to energy dependency, report finds | Between 2021 and 2024, when energy prices spiked in the wake of the pandemic and Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s fossil-fuel import bill increased by €930bn, a report by the think tank Ember published on Thursday (16 October) found. Overall, the total costs of Europe’s fossil-fuel imports during these ... | Hannah Kriwak | Between 2021 and 2024, Europe’s fossil fuel imports cost €1.8 trillion, up €930bn due to price spikes, a new report has found. Heavy reliance on a few suppliers has exposed the EU to risks, prompting experts to call for widespread electrification to foster energy autonomy. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2025-10-16T05:01:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arf04ba838 |
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