Sánchez and the EU have decided that Morocco relations are too big to failMorocco appears to have turned Europe’s summer migration crisis into a strategic victory. As European leaders, including Pedro Sánchez, downplay Rabat’s alleged role in the Ceuta crossing, Morocco is tightening its grip on Europe’s trade, migration and Western Sahara policies — while simultaneously drawing closer to Trump’s America.
Credit ratings of AI tech giants may be based on “assumptions on future revenue growth and leverage which may not stand the test of time”, creating a risk of “mispricing of credit risk,” the ECB’s financial experts found.
Four referendums, different questions, and a common issue of democratic consent and popular sovereignty.
Ukrainians again stored ammunition among civilians: 38 people killed in explosion (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,649)The decision to stash ammunition beside homes and a care facility outside Kyiv has left an entire village shattered, with dozens of civilians dead and injured even as Russian forces press their attacks along key eastern frontlines.
While overstating hybrid threats against the Baltics, commentators often understate what Russia is doing right now. It commits daily war crimes against civilian targets in Ukraine. Sabotage, arson and cyber-attacks on European allies are deadly serious, and getting worse, writes Edward Lucas.
Europe wants to mobilise €30bn for data centres to compete in the global AI race. But across the continent, local communities are pushing back over environmental concerns. Can Europe build technological sovereignty while keeping Big Tech’s power in check?
Casting the EU as the only real counterweight to a world split between Trump-style nationalism, Russian imperialism and Chinese expansionism, Wałęsa insists Europe must leap from nation-state thinking to continental power if it wants to survive.
The proportion of reef surface covered by living coral has fallen by 9.5 percent, compared with just the 1980–2009 average.
Iceland’s No to EU was poetic, but decadent in a hard-power eraI’m not surprised that Iceland voted No to resuming EU accession talks, but the romance of the old man of the sea is a luxury that may soon pass its sell-by date.
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Barry Andrews said his visit to the West Bank convinced him that what he calls Israeli “apartheid” can only be tackled by EU economic pressure.
Imagine an EU public-service chatbot gives the eligibility rule in French but drops a condition in Romanian. If both are folded into one aggregate score, the system may appear compliant. For the citizen who receives the incomplete answer, the failure is not cosmetic. It is unequal access to a public service
The EU is lagging behind the United States and China when it comes to investing in satellite technology. Can the bloc close the gap?
Donbas defence taken over by elite officers with radical pasts (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,646)The appointment of Biletskyi and Prokopenko to lead more than 100,000 troops could decide whether eastern cities like Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Dobropillia hold—or fall—under intensifying Russian assaults and long‑range missile strikes.
Ambassador Bill White had previously threatened to suspend all US relations with Ghent university and accused the institution of “scapegoating mob behavior” after its rector suspended Nathan Cofnas for his role in events that led to the death of Cambridge academic Jason Arday.
In an article published on 26 August 2026, professor Thorvaldur Gylfason is quoted as contending that I am “known to have worked for the Putin regime in Moscow”, that I am “known to have represented a Russian oligarch who was trying to escape EU-imposed sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” and that I was “brought to Iceland” by the No side. All these claims are false, and the facts are a matter of public record.
Whether Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, or Naftali Bennett becomes the next Israeli prime minister, the differences will concern the degree of ethnic cleansing, annexation, colonial-settler expansion, and the number of settler attacks that will be tolerated — not the end of such policies and practices. For Palestinians, no matter who wins, statehood will still be denied.
Iceland would be the smallest country in the bloc, with only around 400,000 inhabitants. But from an economic point of view, Iceland is richer than Malta. Its GDP is around €34bn, whereas Malta, the current smallest member, is at around €20bn.
Iceland’s economy is largely driven by tourism, services and the fishing industry.
From 1 September Dan Luca will take up the newly-created position of European Affairs director at EUobserver. He is a European media and strategic communications expert with nearly three decades of professional experience in Brussels and across European capitals.
For Moldova, joining the European Union is no longer simply a question of adopting thousands of pages of European legislation. It is a race to transform a state whose institutions, economy and political culture still bear the marks of decades of Soviet rule and a difficult transition while resisting pressure from a Russia determined to keep the country within its orbit.
The probe into Hungary’s wildly-overpriced ventilator deals risks becoming a litmus test for whether the new Tisza government is truly ready to confront the Orbán-era system that siphoned off billions — and to face the geopolitical fallout of challenging a former foreign minister.