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When a European government enters a military agreement with a foreign power, citizens should not have to wait for a payment dispute or a renewal crisis to discover what their government has agreed to. Greece's Patriot deployment in Saudi Arabia raises precisely this question.
The secretive Saudi arms deal with Greece making Athens a democratic ‘black box’
When a European government enters a military agreement with a foreign power, citizens should not have to wait for a payment dispute or a renewal crisis to discover what their government has agreed to. Greece's Patriot deployment in Saudi Arabia raises precisely this question.
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September 22, 2026 at 8:04 AM
When a European government enters a military agreement with a foreign power, citizens should not have to wait for a payment dispute or a renewal crisis to discover what their government has agreed to. Greece's Patriot deployment in Saudi Arabia raises precisely this question.
The Houthis Red Sea capture hands the EU a major trade and security headache
The Houthis Red Sea capture hands the EU a major trade and security headache
Seemingly a second-tier problem from a civil war in a distant land, the Houthis' capture of Yemen's Red Sea coast actually risks major disruption to trade and the EU's security missions on the Horn of Africa.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:10 AM
The Houthis Red Sea capture hands the EU a major trade and security headache
EU-Bahrain talks move ahead, even as European political prisoners recount years of torture
EU-Bahrain talks move ahead, even as European political prisoners recount years of torture
Two EU citizens have faced years of uninterrupted torture and rights deprivation while battling Bahrain's crackdowns during the Arab Spring. The issue has hardly topped the EU's negotiations with Bahrain on trade and security - which experts think could make-or-break the human rights defenders' potential release.
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September 22, 2026 at 2:29 AM
EU-Bahrain talks move ahead, even as European political prisoners recount years of torture
Poland’s pushback drive and EU asylum ‘emergency’ plan put rights ‘on a cliff edge’, warns Europe’s top rights chief
Poland’s pushback drive and EU asylum ‘emergency’ plan put rights ‘on a cliff edge’, warns Europe’s top rights chief
Poland is taking credit for a new so-called European emergency response framework, announced last week by the European Commission president. Details are scant but Poland is seeking to loosen UN rules on pushbacks, citing article 33(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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September 22, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Poland’s pushback drive and EU asylum ‘emergency’ plan put rights ‘on a cliff edge’, warns Europe’s top rights chief
Auditors find EU cyber‑attack response is weakened by overlapping systems and secretive member states
Auditors find EU cyber‑attack response is weakened by overlapping systems and secretive member states
Europe spent billions building a common cybersecurity defence. Yet a new audit has found that when a major cyber incident strikes, the EU’s response is not united.
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September 22, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Auditors find EU cyber‑attack response is weakened by overlapping systems and secretive member states
Loophole in new EU labelling will let fossil-fuelled data-centres pass as ‘green’
Loophole in new EU labelling will let fossil-fuelled data-centres pass as ‘green’
The European Commission's new rating system grades data centres on efficiency, but does not show their emissions or how much power and water they use. It also lets sites partly powered by fossil fuels present themselves as renewable by buying green certificates over a whole year.
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September 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Loophole in new EU labelling will let fossil-fuelled data-centres pass as ‘green’
What Ukraine fired at Moscow on Sunday, in its largest air-raid since the war began (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,670)
What Ukraine fired at Moscow on Sunday, in its largest air-raid since the war began (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,670)
The mass drone raid shows Ukraine can now reach deep into Russia’s most defended airspace. Moscow has to rethink how it protects its energy and logistics hubs before winter.
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September 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM
What Ukraine fired at Moscow on Sunday, in its largest air-raid since the war began (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,670)
Irish regulator hits Google with €403m GDPR fine over invasive location tracking
Irish regulator hits Google with €403m GDPR fine over invasive location tracking
The consumer-rights group which filed complaints against the tech giant lashed out at the "disproportionate" time taken for the Irish privacy watchdog to protect sensitive location data.
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September 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Irish regulator hits Google with €403m GDPR fine over invasive location tracking
Germany offers a warning for Europe ahead of 2027 election year: the Putin/Trump security crisis won’t necessarily save the political centre
Germany offers a warning for Europe ahead of 2027 election year: the Putin/Trump security crisis won’t necessarily save the political centre
Mainstream parties might assume that this new age of insecurity will work in their favour. But If Europe’s security environment continues to deteriorate as voters head to the polls in 2027, mainstream leaders should not assume that geopolitics will do the political work of containing the far-right for them.
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September 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Germany offers a warning for Europe ahead of 2027 election year: the Putin/Trump security crisis won’t necessarily save the political centre
Merz ‘fighting for political survival’ as AfD takes another state and The Left wins Berlin
Merz ‘fighting for political survival’ as AfD takes another state and The Left wins Berlin
Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke to press just minutes after polls revealed massive CDU losses. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party failed to make the five-percent threshold. In Berlin, where the party had held power, it was thrashed by the Left.
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September 21, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Merz ‘fighting for political survival’ as AfD takes another state and The Left wins Berlin
Russia’s hybrid war and Trump’s tantrums are pushing Europe towards real strategic autonomy
Russia’s hybrid war and Trump’s tantrums are pushing Europe towards real strategic autonomy
Not for the first time, Russian behaviour has proved tactically smart but strategically stupid. The escalating stunts and provocations across Europe have worked in the short term. But European leaders are now far more willing to state bluntly that Russia is the perpetrator.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Russia’s hybrid war and Trump’s tantrums are pushing Europe towards real strategic autonomy
Seemingly a second-tier problem from a civil war in a distant land, the Houthis' capture of Yemen's Red Sea coast actually risks major disruption to trade and the EU's security missions on the Horn of Africa.
The Houthis Red Sea capture hands the EU a major trade and security headache
Seemingly a second-tier problem from a civil war in a distant land, the Houthis' capture of Yemen's Red Sea coast actually risks major disruption to trade and the EU's security missions on the Horn of Africa.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Seemingly a second-tier problem from a civil war in a distant land, the Houthis' capture of Yemen's Red Sea coast actually risks major disruption to trade and the EU's security missions on the Horn of Africa.
Listen: Fuel price spike reignites push for EU windfall tax on oil and gas profits
Listen: Fuel price spike reignites push for EU windfall tax on oil and gas profits
With fuel bills rising again, a group of EU governments including Spain, Germany and Portugal want a common tax on crisis profits to fund relief and green investments - but most of the bloc is pushing back.
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September 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Listen: Fuel price spike reignites push for EU windfall tax on oil and gas profits
Poland is taking credit for a new so-called European emergency response framework, announced last week by the European Commission president. Details are scant but Poland is seeking to loosen UN rules on pushbacks, citing article 33(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Poland’s pushback drive and EU asylum ‘emergency’ plan put rights ‘on a cliff edge’, warns Europe’s top rights chief
Poland is taking credit for a new so-called European emergency response framework, announced last week by the European Commission president. Details are scant but Poland is seeking to loosen UN rules on pushbacks, citing article 33(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Poland is taking credit for a new so-called European emergency response framework, announced last week by the European Commission president. Details are scant but Poland is seeking to loosen UN rules on pushbacks, citing article 33(2) of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Europe spent billions building a common cybersecurity defence. Yet a new audit has found that when a major cyber incident strikes, the EU’s response is not united.
Auditors find EU cyber‑attack response is weakened by overlapping systems and secretive member states
Europe spent billions building a common cybersecurity defence. Yet a new audit has found that when a major cyber incident strikes, the EU’s response is not united.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Europe spent billions building a common cybersecurity defence. Yet a new audit has found that when a major cyber incident strikes, the EU’s response is not united.
The European Commission's new rating system grades data centres on efficiency, but does not show their emissions or how much power and water they use. It also lets sites partly powered by fossil fuels present themselves as renewable by buying green certificates over a whole year.
Loophole in new EU labelling will let fossil-fuelled data-centres pass as ‘green’
The European Commission's new rating system grades data centres on efficiency, but does not show their emissions or how much power and water they use. It also lets sites partly powered by fossil fuels present themselves as renewable by buying green certificates over a whole year.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
The European Commission's new rating system grades data centres on efficiency, but does not show their emissions or how much power and water they use. It also lets sites partly powered by fossil fuels present themselves as renewable by buying green certificates over a whole year.
THIS WEEK: Next budget and protectionist industrial policy on EU agenda as EPP chief visits Ceuta
THIS WEEK: Next budget and protectionist industrial policy on EU agenda as EPP chief visits Ceuta
As EU ministers clash over how protectionist Europe’s new industrial push should be, EPP chief Manfred Weber is flying to Spain’s north African enclave. Meanwhile, Trump’s wars, tariffs and tensions with allies are also set to dominate the UN General Assembly, with Ukraine, Gaza and Iran high on the agenda.
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September 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
THIS WEEK: Next budget and protectionist industrial policy on EU agenda as EPP chief visits Ceuta
The mass drone raid shows Ukraine can now reach deep into Russia’s most defended airspace. Moscow has to rethink how it protects its energy and logistics hubs before winter.
What Ukraine fired at Moscow on Sunday, in its largest air-raid since the war began (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,670)
The mass drone raid shows Ukraine can now reach deep into Russia’s most defended airspace. Moscow has to rethink how it protects its energy and logistics hubs before winter.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The mass drone raid shows Ukraine can now reach deep into Russia’s most defended airspace. Moscow has to rethink how it protects its energy and logistics hubs before winter.
The consumer-rights group which filed complaints against the tech giant lashed out at the "disproportionate" time taken for the Irish privacy watchdog to protect sensitive location data.
Irish regulator hits Google with €403m GDPR fine over invasive location tracking
The consumer-rights group which filed complaints against the tech giant lashed out at the "disproportionate" time taken for the Irish privacy watchdog to protect sensitive location data.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The consumer-rights group which filed complaints against the tech giant lashed out at the "disproportionate" time taken for the Irish privacy watchdog to protect sensitive location data.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke to press just minutes after polls revealed massive CDU losses. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party failed to make the five-percent threshold. In Berlin, where the party had held power, it was thrashed by the Left.
Merz ‘fighting for political survival’ as AfD takes another state and The Left wins Berlin
Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke to press just minutes after polls revealed massive CDU losses. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party failed to make the five-percent threshold. In Berlin, where the party had held power, it was thrashed by the Left.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke to press just minutes after polls revealed massive CDU losses. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party failed to make the five-percent threshold. In Berlin, where the party had held power, it was thrashed by the Left.
Not for the first time, Russian behaviour has proved tactically smart but strategically stupid. The escalating stunts and provocations across Europe have worked in the short term. But European leaders are now far more willing to state bluntly that Russia is the perpetrator.
Russia’s hybrid war and Trump’s tantrums are pushing Europe towards real strategic autonomy
Not for the first time, Russian behaviour has proved tactically smart but strategically stupid. The escalating stunts and provocations across Europe have worked in the short term. But European leaders are now far more willing to state bluntly that Russia is the perpetrator.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Not for the first time, Russian behaviour has proved tactically smart but strategically stupid. The escalating stunts and provocations across Europe have worked in the short term. But European leaders are now far more willing to state bluntly that Russia is the perpetrator.
‘Too little, too late’: Europe’s Arctic gas would arrive two decades too late, new research finds
‘Too little, too late’: Europe’s Arctic gas would arrive two decades too late, new research finds
Norwegian politicians say Arctic gas is crucial to the EU's future energy security and want Brussels to drop its moratorium on Arctic drilling. But a new report from a Norwegian NGO finds the volumes would be small and would not arrive until the 2040s which is 'too little, too late'.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM
‘Too little, too late’: Europe’s Arctic gas would arrive two decades too late, new research finds
With fuel bills rising again, a group of EU governments including Spain, Germany and Portugal want a common tax on crisis profits to fund relief and green investments - but most of the bloc is pushing back.
Listen: Fuel price spike reignites push for EU windfall tax on oil and gas profits
With fuel bills rising again, a group of EU governments including Spain, Germany and Portugal want a common tax on crisis profits to fund relief and green investments - but most of the bloc is pushing back.
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:31 AM
With fuel bills rising again, a group of EU governments including Spain, Germany and Portugal want a common tax on crisis profits to fund relief and green investments - but most of the bloc is pushing back.
Trump’s joke Greenland deal offers hope for US-EU diplomacy
Trump’s joke Greenland deal offers hope for US-EU diplomacy
Are there still grown ups in the State Department and White House who not only know the right thing to do, but also how to sell it to the creepy man-baby in the Oval Office?
euobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Trump’s joke Greenland deal offers hope for US-EU diplomacy
Norwegian politicians say Arctic gas is crucial to the EU's future energy security and want Brussels to drop its moratorium on Arctic drilling. But a new report from a Norwegian NGO finds the volumes would be small and would not arrive until the 2040s which is 'too little, too late'.
‘Too little, too late’: Europe’s Arctic gas would arrive two decades too late, new research finds
Norwegian politicians say Arctic gas is crucial to the EU's future energy security and want Brussels to drop its moratorium on Arctic drilling. But a new report from a Norwegian NGO finds the volumes would be small and would not arrive until the 2040s which is 'too little, too late'.
euobserver.com
September 20, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Norwegian politicians say Arctic gas is crucial to the EU's future energy security and want Brussels to drop its moratorium on Arctic drilling. But a new report from a Norwegian NGO finds the volumes would be small and would not arrive until the 2040s which is 'too little, too late'.