According to the Portugal remigration summit’s official website, the meeting was about “shaping the future of Europe and the West through sovereignty, identity, and demographic renewal” – a euphemism of creating imagined racially pure Western societies.
THIS WEEK: EU weighs curbs on Israeli-settlement trade, as India tech ties and carbon market review top agendaThis week’s EU agenda stretches from restrictions on trade with Israeli illegal settlements and Gaza aid to a looming electrification push and carbon market review.
Crystal ball: EU will do nothing about Israel on MondayWadephul, Tajani, and other EU friends of Israel will say Lebanon peace talks and Israeli elections mean there should be no sanctions.
Ukraine’s war planners see a paradoxical path ahead: even as battles grind on around Donbas, the real turning point may come from collapsing Russian logistics deep behind the front.
Belgian minister for the climate, Jean-Luc Crucke believes in simplification and the initiative of companies to collaborate with federal sustainability measures. Despite unequal footing with international partners and a slow pace of EU reforms, the minister is “not a pessimist”
Meta is being investigated for its deliberately addictive design features. “If features such as infinite scroll or surveillance advertising aren’t safe, they shouldn’t be on social media in the first place,” said one tech expert.
Without Patriots, Ukraine turns to drones and jamming against Russian Iskanders (Ukraine battlefield update, Day 1,598)Ukrainian drones are quietly mauling Russia’s Azov fleet and missile industry even as a single mis‑sited ammunition depot in Vyshneve shows how one strike can turn a Kyiv neighbourhood into a toxic war zone within minutes.
Faced with the end of the EU’s post-pandemic fund, the bloc’s leaders are using the cash to finance new sovereign investment funds.
Drawing on months of research and consultations with lawyers, trade experts and former and current EU officials, we propose a regulation under the EU’s Common Commercial Policy. Such regulation should aim at ensuring that EU trade complies with international law and does not help sustain the illegal settlements economically.
As Brussels welcomes Magyar’s moves on Ukraine aid and frozen EU funds, the real battle is shifting to whether he can lock in rule-of-law reforms before entrenched Orbán loyalists regroup. Is the new prime minister delivering on his promises?
German politicians duped into thinking a new subsidy scheme only benefits Chinese electric vehiclesA previous German electric vehicle subsidy scheme massively benefited Volkswagen, which had invested heavily in expensive cars that only the rich could afford. Now it’s set to cut 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany.
MEPs have also warned against the EU’s new corporate ’28th regime’ being used to create a European equivalent to the US state of Delaware.
Rare jet fighter duel sees Ukrainian operated F-16 down a Russian Su-35 (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,597)As Nato brands Russia a long‑term threat and lines up a $70bn [€61bn] Ukraine support package, Kyiv’s first F‑16‑Patriot “kill” sends a blunt message that Western kit is already reshaping the military map far beyond the front line.
According to a leaked draft of the EU Commission’s Electrification Action Plan Brussels will propose a binding electrification target later this year as part of a wider post-2030 energy package.
A sudden blackout of Hungary’s main state TV channel, mass sackings of loyalist editors and an emergency legal overhaul reveal how fast Viktor Orbán’s propaganda and power network is being dismantled.
Lithuania built the EU’s biggest home for fintech payments firms. Now its own regulator is retreating, and the fixes from Brussels arrive too late to undo what is already through the gate.
Ahead of the key meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday (13 July), the European Commission has circulated an options paper exploring ways to restrict trade between the EU and Israeli illegal settlements in the West Bank. Here, EUobserver explains them.
A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company’s fossil-fuel expansion. But it does something the industry has spent half a century resisting: it holds TotalEnergies legally responsible not just for the emissions from its operations, but for the emissions produced when the oil and gas it sells are ultimately burned.
As EU funds flow into improving the energy efficiency of homes, the failure to support deep renovations risks locking entire neighbourhoods into homes that remain expensive to heat and cool for decades. So why isn’t EU funding delivering on its promise?
Between 2020 and 2023, Germany spent €860m subsidising the purchase of Teslas — a scheme that helped unlock Berlin’s share of the EU’s Covid recovery fund, according to internal documents obtained by EUobserver. Now, Elon Musk’s Berlin gigafactory is also receiving more than €71m in state aid.
