State of the Union 2025 leaves us with a blunt question: who does the EU really serve — the corporations and wealthy, or the public? If Ursula von der Leyen’s answer is “both,” as her name-dropping suggests, then public services cannot remain an afterthought.

The EU will provide €1.3bn in loans and grants for Namibia’s green industrialisation, the bloc’s international partnerships commissioner Jozef Sikela announced on Thursday.

In Moldova, authorities estimate the Kremlin will spend €100m — €31 per registered voter — to influence the outcome. In the Czech Republic, Kremlin-linked outlets are pumping out more content each day than the country’s major news outlets combined.  

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.

Today, we kick off an anniversary campaign to convince new supporting members to join EUobserver's mission of providing the information citizens need to safeguard EU democracy.

Russian spies are still active in the EU capital and have a "higher risk appetite" than before the Ukraine war — despite Belgium's efforts to push back against their plots.