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Beyond the rural-urban cliche: the far-right and the EU 'development trap' | Far-right parties are rising in polls across Europe ahead of this weekend's elections, with both political scientists and politicians scrambling for explanations. Beyond analysis that focuses squarely on economic factors or cultural values, increasing attention has come to the regional inequality to explain support for... | Piet Ruig | The far-right's rise in popularity in Europe has been largely driven by discontent among voters in the countryside. But a straightforward rural-urban political divide might be too simplistic, with experts emphasising cultural factors as well. | [
"EU Elections"
] | eu-elections | 2024-06-03T16:19:40.960Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-elections/ard94b653f |
Stuck in Libya, the Sudanese refugee frightened of both Frontex and coast guard | In Libya's capital city Tripoli, a 29-year old refugee from Sudan is hoping to get smuggled by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. "I don't feel safe being anywhere in Libya," he tells EUobserver, in a video conference call on Friday (31 May). "I think of trying [to reach Europe] as soon as possible. It ... | Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010. | In Libya's capital city Tripoli, a 29-year old refugee from Sudan is hoping to get smuggled by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. | [
"Migration"
] | migration | 2024-06-03T14:42:25.637Z | https://euobserver.com/migration/ar2e424d7d |
EU carbon border tax will have 'very small impact' on China, new report finds | The economic effects of the EU’s new carbon import levy are set to be far smaller than feared by many third countries, according to a report published on Monday (3 June) by Sandbag, a think-tank focused on EU climate policies. But the report also contends that foreign manufacturers can minimise the charges they face un... | 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 economic effects of the EU’s new carbon import levy are set to be far smaller than feared by many third countries, according to a report published on Monday by Sandbag, a think-tank focused on EU climate policies. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-06-03T13:00:04.949Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ara63f0088 |
Normalising the far-right has backfired on migration - next will be climate | Following the latest coalition agreements between the radical-right and the centre-right in the Netherlands and Croatia, seven EU member states are now governed or supported by the radical right. More could come about, with elections looming in Belgium, Bulgaria and for the European Parliament. The old policy of keepin... | Charting the Radical Right’s Influence on EU Foreign Policy | Ursula von der Leyen's normalisation pattern is well known — but the centre-right gets its hands dirty in trying to respond to demands coming from the right, without the ballot box gains. The next policy area that is seeing this pattern unfold is climate policy. | [
"EU Political",
"EU Elections"
] | eu-political | 2024-06-03T10:38:56.272Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar2397b0fc |
EU farmers shun June 4 anti-Green Deal protest in Brussels | Europe’s largest farming unions representing millions of agricultural workers have rejected calls to join this week’s protest against EU green reforms, DeSmog can reveal. Smaller groups have also shunned the demo – some wanting to avoid the prospect of violence, others claiming they didn’t know it was happening. Prepar... | inside the Polish parliament, is also heading to Brussels, confirmed unofficial spokesperson Mariusz Borowiak. | Big and small farming groups have decided against attending the demo on the eve of the EU elections. | [
"Health & Society",
"EU Elections"
] | health-and-society | 2024-06-03T10:10:10.143Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ar2175aec8 |
EU elections: the far-right surge, youth turnout, the 'greenlash' in focus This WEEK | This week will revolve around one thing and one thing only: the elections for the European Parliament, taking place across the continent from Thursday to Sunday. After an election campaign marked by farmer’s unrest , concerns over the EU’s economy , and controversy over far-right collaboration , European citizens will ... | Piet Ruig | This week, European citizens will head to the polls for the European elections, with votes taking place across the continent from Thursday to Sunday. With the far-right steadily climbing in the polls, the first EU-wide results are expected on Sunday evening in what could be a watershed moment in the parliament's histor... | [
"Agenda"
] | agenda | 2024-06-03T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/agenda/ar943bc539 |
You can now ask AI all about EUobserver's articles | Late last year, a Swedish journalist named Lasse Edfast reached out to show his project eu-bots. Back then, it was a bot that would automatically transcribe, translate and summarise debates in the European Parliament. It was a nifty idea. The bot would take statements from MEPs, summarise them and post them under the M... | Alejandro Tauber | The developer of EU-docs trained AI bot eu-bots.net has now included EUobserver's articles to the LLM's training data, which already includes EU documents and IPCC reports. | [
"Digital",
"Inside EUobserver"
] | digital | 2024-05-31T08:35:06.558Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/arf8ab9cee |
Hungry and voiceless: why EU-Africa partnership must rectify this double injustice | With the renewal of the EU’s leadership after June's European elections and the upcoming AU-EU summit next year, there is a critical opportunity to scale up action towards fighting hunger. However, as we follow the EU-Africa partnership , transparency is lacking, leaving civil society and communities on the side. Incre... | Action Against Hunger | With the renewal of the EU’s leadership after June's European elections and the upcoming African Union-European Union summit next year, there is a critical opportunity to scale up action towards fighting hunger, with transparent policies and truly civil society involvement, over political and economic interests. | [
"EU & the World",
"Africa",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-31T08:06:02.009Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar6e2e2de8 |
Revealed: Far-right links of Polish farmer hunger strikers | An obscure far-right linked farmers group has risen to prominence in Poland after it was championed by populist politicians ahead of the EU elections, DeSmog can reveal. Orka, a new farmers’ movement that materialised earlier this month, entered Warsaw’s parliament building on 9 May to protest against EU climate plans ... | Phoebe Cooke | The nascent Orka movement has won a meeting with Polish president Andrzej Duda – and reportedly a role on his agricultural council. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-30T08:53:18.674Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar56395776 |
The Hungarian EU presidency and Georgia's election — don't say you weren't warned | Georgia's current political crisis was triggered by the Georgian Dream government's repeated attempts to push through its highly-controversial Foreign Agents Law , finally passed on Tuesday (28 May), which jeopardises the country's EU accession path. But it was also catalysed by a rather unexpected external development... | German Marshall Fund | The Hungarian government will hold the rotating EU presidency in the second half of 2024, at a critical time for enlargement policy and neighbourhood relations: during parliamentary elections in Georgia and presidential elections in Moldova. | [
"EU & the World",
"Rule of Law",
"EU Political"
] | * | 2024-05-29T10:17:59.230Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar627f9fe2 |
The fight for Georgia’s European future | The celebration of Georgia’s Independence Day in Tbilisi last Sunday was perhaps more symbolic than ever before. On 26 May, thousands of people proceeded from Merab Kostava Street to Vake Park protesting against the so-called “foreign agent law” – the route of the protesters on Sunday repeated that of Georgia’s first I... | Russian Political Warfare | Georgian-Russian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili feels that Russia is winning the war against Ukraine. Since Moscow’s potential victory will necessarily weaken the West and consolidate Russian illiberal influence in Europe, the Georgian Dream party is poised to join Russia’s side – in defiance of the will of Georgian peop... | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-28T08:31:39.386Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar5684104b |
Forget the TV debates, the 'Spitzenkandidate' process is now a distracting sham | The last European elections back in 2019 were a pivotal moment in the debate over the so-called 'Spitzenkandidat' process. After a series of wrong political moves and successive negotiation deadlocks, EU leaders, as part of a package agreement for top positions in the European Union's institutions, proposed Ursula von ... | Christos Avdellas | Ursula von der Leyen — a political figure unknown to the general public, lacking prime ministerial experience, and never a Spitzenkandidat for EU president — became EU Commission president in 2019. So what is the point of re-running this sham? | [
"EU Elections"
] | * | 2024-05-27T10:30:08.904Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar15d1b7ec |
After Ukraine and Gaza, the forgotten crisis - Syrian refugees | After 13 years of conflict and crisis, the situation faced by many Syrian refugees remains desperate. There are now more than five million refugees from Syria are registered in the region - with the majority living in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Despite many having been displaced for more than a decade, returning home ... | Nivedita Monga | On Monday, the EU is hosting the 8th Brussels Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region” - the year’s biggest pledging moment for Syrians impacted by the conflict as it enters its 14th year. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-27T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arb05ca776 |
The political 'Eurovision' - Follow the Spitzenkandidat debate live | The European Union election campaign reaches a peak this week. Following an election debate earlier this week the EU Commission presidential hopefuls will face off in a new televised encounter between the so-called (lead candidates) taking place this afternoon (Thursday 23 May) The debate at the European Parliament is ... | "I think we are at a crucial moment for Europe. The citizens feel this and we need to do everything we can to mobilise people to vote for democratic parties. And of course today I want to convince voters to vote for the Greens," she said before the debate, calling out any coalitions with far-right parties. | EUobserver takeaways from the final Spitzenkandidat debate before June's European election. | [
"EU Elections"
] | eu-elections | 2024-05-23T11:00:53.956Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-elections/ar747b139b |
The new Dutch coalition faces imminent EU reality check | Outsiders may already be wondering whether the outcome of the Dutch government's coalition deal of four fractious far-right and centre-right parties constitutes a watershed moment for Dutch EU diplomacy. However, questions should be raised about the expected durability of the Dutch coalition and the feasibility of its ... | Dutch Farmers Association | The idea of obtaining a Dutch opt-out from the EU’s migration policy requires EU treaty change and is clearly dead on arrival. Ditto opting-out of the 1992 Habitats Directive. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-23T08:39:16.511Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar3cf9c12f |
Right of Reply: the Hungarian government on Russia sanctions and its EU presidency | Dear Editor, In an all-too-predictable display of prejudice, new criticisms claiming Hungary's EU presidency would pander to Russian or Chinese interests have appeared, attempting to throw unfounded doubt on our upcoming leadership. Let's uncover the motivations behind these claims. First and foremost, the allegations ... | Zoltán Kovács | Influential. Investigative. Independent. EUobserver is a online non-profit news outlet reporting on the European Union. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-21T14:53:53.940Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar75a1a5f4 |
Who are the Alliance Defending Freedom and why are they lobbying Brussels? | The European Parliament may be about to change radically after the 9 June elections. Some projections predict a new majority of the right and far right: the conservative European People’s Party group, the ultraconservatives in the European Conservatives & Reformists, and the far-right in the Identity & Democracy Group.... | Corporate Europe Observatory | For years rightwing groups in the European Parliament have collaborated with the Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF International, an ultraconservative US legal advocacy organisation that fights abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights on both sides of the Atlantic. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society"
] | * | 2024-05-21T08:38:17.797Z | https://euobserver.com/*/ar1ce924df |
How the EU can help today's new Taiwan president | On Monday (20 May), Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, who won the presidential election in Taiwan in January , inaugurates his presidency, amid heightened tensions between China’s (officially the People’s Republic of China, PRC) and Taiwan (officially the Republic of China, ROC). Beijing claims that the island i... | (IAI) in Rome, and a visiting scholar | The EU is not a security actor in east Asia – however, it has some formidable and unique – soft power assets that could be leveraged to promote dialogue and understanding between China and Taiwan, as Taiwan inaugurates its new president today | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-20T08:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arc0a9d307 |
Dutch coalition latest example of EU liberals collaboration with far-right | Renew Europe leader and French MEP Valérie Hayer denounced the newly-formed Dutch rightwing government coalition on Thursday (16 May) — exposing divisions among Renew, the party group of European liberals. Hayer expressed her “ total disapproval and deep concern ” over the coalition agreement between the People’s Party... | Piet Ruig | The new Dutch government coalition has rattled Renew Europe, the liberal group, which has vowed to exclude the far-right. But conservative liberals have repeatedly cooperated with the far-right, illustrating European liberals' divide. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-17T14:59:25.473Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar66dc7024 |
Slovak politicians focus on hate speech after Fico assassination attempt | Slovak politicians and media have called for a stop to further escalation of rhetoric and hate speech following the assassination attempt on prime minister Robert Fico. Fico sustained severe injuries in the shooting on Wednesday (15 May) as he approached a public gathering in Handlova, western Slovakia. He underwent a ... | Lucia Virostkova | 'What happened yesterday was an individual act, but the tense atmosphere of hatred was our collective work,' said Slovak president Zuzana Caputova. The current and future Slovak presidents have announced a plan to invite political leaders to the presidential palace for round table talks to calm the situation. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-16T14:16:50.030Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar7656843b |
How bad is Chinese spying in eastern Europe? | The recent spike of uncovered espionage activities linked to China across Europe has heightened concerns about Beijing's activities and its impact on European security. In April alone, German authorities made headlines by arresting an aide from the European Parliament on serious espionage charges for allegedly passing ... | GLOBSEC | Central and eastern Europe have an increasing perception of China as a security threat — despite ongoing economic engagements in countries like Hungary. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-16T11:34:44.728Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar5261352f |
The obstacles facing young mothers running to be MEPs | “Just get on with it” was the advice New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern claims she received from the late Queen Elizabeth II on how to balance the responsibilities of motherhood with leading a nation. Ardern called it “the best advice” she received on the topic, but then went on to resign halfway through her sec... | ALDE | Whereas for men, having a family can be a political advantage, for women it can seem yet another barrier to achieving their political goals. | [
"Health & Society",
"EU Elections"
] | health-and-society | 2024-05-15T10:36:33.293Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/area54f4db |
Why did the EU invite a racist to address a conference on racism? | There are three reasons why the European Commission should not have invited Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz to give a keynote speech at the EU's conference on combating racism, antisemitism and xenophobia on Tuesday (7 May). The first is that he is a racist. The second is that he is an antisemite. The third is tha... | In Your Eyes A Sandstorm - Ways of Being Palestinian | By any European metric, Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz would be considered a rightwing extremist. So why was he invited to lecture the EU on how to combat racism? | [
"EU & the World",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-10T11:11:37.542Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar76727643 |
Thirsty Sicily — water scarcity in the Mediterranean basin | In the council chamber of Aidone, a town in the Sicilian hinterland with just under 5,000 inhabitants, a citizens' committee has gathered to discuss an issue of extreme urgency for their community: water. The citizens of Aidone are concerned, because the new water tariffs for billing from 2024 to 2029 – determined by t... | Pierluigi Bizzini | In the council chamber of Aidone, a town in the Sicilian hinterland with just under 5,000 inhabitants, a citizens' committee has gathered to discuss an issue of extreme urgency for their community: water. | [
"Green Economy"
] | green-economy | 2024-05-10T10:17:36.707Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar0b16227e |
The slow-mo absorption of Belarus into Russia | As most of the globe continues to focus on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war , another development is afoot. The Russian Federation is slowly forcing Belarus into a union state. This was most apparent during the 2020 Belarusian presidential election . In August 2020, Belarusian president Ale... | nonresident fellow | As most of the globe continues to focus on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, another development is afoot. The Russian Federation is slowly forcing Belarus into a union state. | [
"EU & the World"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-06T09:48:36.551Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar68f1913b |
To Tik or not to Tok? Europe’s disinformation dilemma | With the European Parliament elections just weeks away, the fight against online disinformation has risen to the top of EU leaders’ minds. French president Emmanuel Macron called on the EU to create a “digital democratic order” and proposed a minimum age limit of 15 for independent internet usage, during his Europe spe... | Piet Ruig | EU leaders have increasingly turned up the heat on social media over disinformation, particularly TikTok. Paradoxically, politicians are flocking to the platform in pursuit of young voters. But bans are not a solution, experts warn. | [
"Digital",
"EU Elections"
] | digital | 2024-05-04T07:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/digital/arf185556e |
Orbán-backed think-tank courts farmers linked to far-right ahead of elections | An oil-funded think tank backed by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán is involved in organising widespread farmer protests in the run-up to the EU elections, DeSmog can reveal. Hardline farming groups pledged to "sweep away” EU decision-makers at a “lunch and discussion” event, which was hosted by MCC Brussels on 9 ... | Joey Grostern | An oil-funded think-tank backed by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán is involved in organising widespread farmer protests in the run-up to the EU elections, DeSmog can reveal. | [
"Green Economy",
"EU Elections"
] | green-economy | 2024-05-02T14:09:56.310Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/ar506ca561 |
The Renaissance Italian villa where the EU archives its history | Villa Salviati is a beautiful renaissance residence rising on the green hills above Florence in Italy. From this place powerful aristocratic families have pulled important strings for almost 500 years. “It’s geographical location meets all the requirements regarding the perfect setting of suburban residence,” according... | Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible to the Board for effective strategic leadership, planning and performance. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media. | The European Union takes thousands of decisions — and makes mountains of documents. But what happens to these historic files? EUobserver has gone searching in an old renaissance villa in Italy. | [
"EU & the World",
"Digital",
"Headline News"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-05-01T08:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar33ca72fc |
Europe faces up to deepening housing crisis | The EU is facing an increasingly worrying housing crisis, with average rents rising by almost 23 percent and house prices by almost 48 percent between 2010 and the end of 2023, according to the latest data published by Eurostat. Greece was the only member state to see a fall in rental prices over the period, while othe... | Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs. | The EU is facing an increasingly worrying housing crisis, with average rents rising by almost 23 percent and house prices by almost 48 percent between 2010 and the end of 2023. | [
"EU Political",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-political | 2024-05-01T07:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar514aa494 |
Share of Europeans over 85 'will triple' by end of century | Europe’s share of people aged 85 years and older will triple by the end of the century, rising from three to nearly 10 percent of the total population, according to a report published by the Bruegel think-tank on Tuesday (30 April). More generally, Europe’s dependency ratio, which measures the number of people over 65 ... | Piet Ruig | As childlessness among the elderly increases, and children move further away from their parents, informal care networks are likely to prove insufficient, the report warns. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2024-04-30T16:13:30.462Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ar736813f2 |
Farm-to-fork, to protestors with pitchforks: the death of EU’s sustainable food policy | The European Commission’s Farm-to-Fork Strategy was originally hailed as a highly-ambitious initiative that would transform European agriculture. Four years on, weeks out from the next European Parliament elections, little is left of this ambition, as farmers' protests and industry pressures have forced the commission ... | Piet Ruig | The 2019-2024 European Parliament and Commission gave birth to Europe’s Green Deal. Then watched as the key Farm-to-Fork component was watered-down — before going up in smoke in the streets of Brussels. | [
"Green Economy",
"EU Elections",
"Magazine"
] | green-economy | 2024-04-29T05:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arf1589b03 |
Why EUobserver is now asking for your email address | Some of you regular visitors might have noticed a change since we moved to the new website; to read articles, you must now register with your email address. Some of you might find this annoying. Or inconvenient. Or even an invasion of privacy. I’d like to explain why we made this choice, and why we think it’s necessary... | Alejandro Tauber is Publisher of EUobserver. He is Ecuadorian, German, and American, but lives in Amsterdam. His background is in tech and science reporting, and was previously editor at VICE's Motherboard and publisher of TNW. | I’d like to explain why we made this choice, and why we think it’s necessary. It’s not because we want your data. And it’s not because we’re intent on bombarding you with endless emails to sign up for a paid membership. | [
"Inside EUobserver"
] | inside-euobserver | 2024-04-26T10:37:13.397Z | https://euobserver.com/inside-euobserver/ar63ed1ff6 |
How 'law of unintended consequences' will push up price of a cup of coffee | Coffee is not just one of Europe’s favourite drinks — the continent is actually the world’s largest coffee market. From bustling Italian espresso bars to leisurely café au laits enjoyed on French sidewalks, to Scandinavia, where the ritual coffee break is reflected by Sweden’s “fika” tradition, while the drink is no le... | Frances Li is a Europe analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit. | Achtung, espresso lovers! The EU’s incoming “deforestation-free” regulation, which comes into place in December 2024, is likely to impact supplies to the bloc of coffee beans. And Europe is the world's largest market for coffee. | [
"EU & the World",
"Green Economy",
"Health & Society"
] | eu-and-the-world | 2024-04-26T08:42:48.936Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arbdbe8fdf |
How to talk about Europe without boring the pants off people | There’s going to be a lot of talk about the EU in the next few months as campaigning gets underway for the European Parliament elections in June and jockeying for the Union’s plum posts intensifies over the summer. But how do we make sure this connects with people, encourages them to vote and sparks a real debate about... | Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels programme | Drawing on his 30 years’ experience in the Brussels bubble, a journalism professor's top tips on communicating the EU more clearly, concisely and convincingly. | [
"EU Political"
] | eu-political | 2024-04-25T09:32:05.834Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/arfdf4c3c9 |
MEPs celebrate victory as Parliament approves Platform Work Directive | MEPs finalised a new law on gig economy workers on Wednesday (24 April) as they rushed to conclude dozens of outstanding laws at the European Parliament's final plenary session in Strasbourg before June's European elections. The platform work directive, which aims to increase protection for the millions of European wor... | Piet Ruig | Though the law looked dead in the water as late as February, MEP’s overcame tough resistance in the council and aggressive lobbying efforts to pass the law supporting gig economy workers. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2024-04-24T19:59:11.428Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/ardd959d07 |
Europe still has a plastics problem — and it's coming from Texas | Europe has a plastics problem. Millions of tiny plastic pellets routinely wash up along Europe’s coastline and waterways, becoming long-lasting pollutants. Earlier this year, authorities in northern Spain declared an environmental emergency when millions of these pellets washed up on shore after a huge spill. Plastics ... | is a researcher on business and human rights at Amnesty International and author of a recent report | Amnesty International recently published new research showing how some petrochemical products linked to human rights abuses and environmental racism, are being exported into Europe’s plastic supply chain from plants concentrated around the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. | [
"Green Economy",
"Opinion"
] | green-economy | 2024-04-24T09:00:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/green-economy/are38aea8d |
Pollwatch: Methods and principles | The following processes were carried out to calibrate the weighted average for Pollwatch, a collaborative project between EUobserver and EM Analytics, in the context of the European elections in June 2024. The data from all the polls published for the last three elections in the member countries were compiled. The devi... | or at | Find out the methodology behind Pollwatch, a collaborative project between EUobserver and EM Analytics, in the context of the European elections in June 2024. | [
"EU Elections"
] | eu-elections | 2024-04-23T11:00:44.066Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-elections/arab26ec63 |
Is there an alternative to the rise of the far right in the EU? | Europe has been through a whirlwind of changes in the past five years, from Brexit to Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These events have reshaped our continent in ways we could never have imagined before. The Europe of 2019 is almost unrecognisable now. We cannot even envisage what it might look like after... | Raül Romeva and Maylis Rossberg are the Spitzenkandidaten of the European Free Alliance for the European elections. EFA is the European Political Party that defends democracy and diversity in Europe. | The rise of far-right parties in Europe is a serious concern that threatens the progress we have made in the last decades. Is the only answer for Europe just to go backwards, or is there any chance that we can move forward, towards a more democratic future? | [
"Magazine"
] | magazine | 2024-04-23T07:18:11.130Z | https://euobserver.com/magazine/ar2329daa3 |
The European far-right: reasons to be pessimistic — and optimistic | From June 6 to 9, citizens of the European Union's 27 member states will elect the 720 members of the world's most powerful supranational parliament. Many political analysts anticipate that the recent far-right mobilisation in member states will now more directly influence the European Union's policies and politics Her... | Kai Arzheimer | Here are five reasons why and how the far-right will shape the next half decade of European integration, and five reasons to remain (cautiously) optimistic.
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"EU Political",
"EU Elections"
] | eu-political | 2024-04-22T07:30:00.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar3cdfa533 |
Welcome to the new EUobserver | Hello there. If you’re reading this, we’ve successfully managed to transfer over to our new home. I’ll tell you, it was not easy. EUobserver has be en around since the year 2000, publishing over 70,000 articles since its inception as one of the first EU-focused news publishers on earth – and certainly online. Over the ... | Alejandro Tauber is Publisher of EUobserver. He is Ecuadorian, German, and American, but lives in Amsterdam. His background is in tech and science reporting, and was previously editor at VICE's Motherboard and publisher of TNW. | New website, same EUobserver. Come explore its updated look, features and possibilities for the future with us. | [
"Inside EUobserver"
] | inside-euobserver | 2024-04-17T05:10:26.286Z | https://euobserver.com/inside-euobserver/ar77652c78 |
Don't kill cohesion policy | Many think of Frankfurt as the financial centre of the EU and, therefore, as its economic beating heart. One can also say the same about our national capitals and two or three of the largest cities in every member state. Indeed, most Spanish wealth is concentrated in Madrid and Barcelona. But does the future of the EU ... | for the EU a relevant role, as demanded recently by the European Parliament. | Some groups on the right of the EU political spectrum are openly questioning the need for this major investment instrument, risking depleting cohesion funds aimed at investment for the future, writes Marcos Ros Sempere of the Socialists & Democrats. | [
"Health & Society"
] | health-and-society | 2024-04-11T09:57:47.000Z | https://euobserver.com/health-and-society/arfd6800ce |
How NOT to write an op-ed | As comment editor, I receive around 10-15 unsolicited op-ed submissions every 24 hours. That includes weekends. At peak periods, it can be 20 in one day. Even at slow times, e.g. Christmas or mid-August, it is never fewer than five. At 800 words each, that is 10,000 to 15,000 words of cold-calling text daily to read an... | Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin. | EUobserver receives tens of thousands of words of unsolicited opinion pieces every day — for one daily slot. So, how do you differentiate your piece from the crowd of others, and actually get published? | [
"EU Political",
"Opinion"
] | eu-political | 2023-01-02T06:25:02.000Z | https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar8c10ab92 |
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