The EU has weighed in its 'deep concern' at post-election violence in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, weeks ahead of a key summit with African leaders in Angola. 

This treatment by Israeli authorities is an insult to the European Parliament and its elected representatives and is certainly not the behaviour of a democracy, writes MEP Lynn Boylan, chair of the delegation for relations with Palestine.

Saturday is the one-year anniversary of Serbia's deadly train station collapse — starting waves of student protests against president Aleksandar Vučić that still reverberate. "It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year", according to one professor of southeastern European history.

EU states are struggling with upcoming border rules that critics say could led to detention-like centres. Under the new regime authorities will have only seven days to screen a prospective asylum seeker.

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.