Tinned food and three days of bottled water? Fine. But European citizens stockpiling ignores a grim factor: your neighbours will become your enemies euobserver.com/245385/tinned…

From student protests to a parliamentary majority. Serbia's political landscape has shifted. 🇷🇸 Less than two years after a deadly railway station collapse in Novi Sad sparked nationwide protests, Serbia's student-led movement has won 140 of 250 parliamentary seats, defeating president Aleksandar Vučić's ruling party. Turnout reached nearly 70%, the highest since 1992, and Vučić has acknowledged defeat after more than a decade dominating Serbian politics. But the political struggle is far from over. With presidential elections approaching in December, the student movement now faces the challenge of turning protest into government — while Vučić remains president. In our latest report, Petra Pavlovičová examines the election results, the movement behind them and what comes next for Serbia. 🔗 Read the full story: euobserver.com/244879/serbia…

Caretaker PM Netanyahu expected to escalate violence, as EU sanctions talk on hold until new Israeli government formed euobserver.com/245602/careta…

Digital panopticon: ‘When you work faster, you have to work even faster’ Amazon workers tell MEPs on AI work surveillance euobserver.com/245543/digita…

[Interview] ‘I don’t care’ about the associate membership label row: Lead MEP Javier Moreno Sánchez on upcoming EU-Canada summit euobserver.com/245551/interv…

Putin faces African anger in Moscow on ‘coercive’ recruits to Russian army in Ukraine euobserver.com/245499/putin-…

From 2027, some passengers with disability will be able to fly with a companion for free. But there's a catch. ✈️ Under new EU passenger rights rules, airlines will have to waive fares for companions they consider necessary for safety reasons. The problem? Airlines will decide who qualifies. Passengers who need personal assistance, but whose companion is not deemed necessary by the airline, could still face the cost of an additional ticket. MEPs have welcomed the agreement as progress, while disability rights advocates warn that significant gaps remain. 🔗 Read the full article 👉 euobserver.com/245083/partia…

Ukrainian soldier’s frontline phone messages show tragic human cost of maintaining resistance against Russian forces in Kostiantynivka (Ukraine Battlefield update, day 1,707) euobserver.com/245468/ukrain…

Frontex gets 17,000 extra officers for deportations while human-rights monitoring suffers downgrade euobserver.com/245436/fronte…

How the rescue of 28 people from a makeshift dinghy in a stormy Mediterranean unfolded – exposing the lethal reality of EU border policy euobserver.com/245343/how-th…

Knife-edge EU Council methane vote could hinge on commission action plan euobserver.com/245395/knife-…

Netanyahu could lose power. But Israel's political direction may not change.🇮🇱 Ahead of Israel's Knesset elections, Middle East analyst Beth Oppenheim warns that removing Benjamin Netanyahu would not necessarily reverse the rise of right-wing nationalism. In our latest interview, she explains how nationalist positions have moved into Israel's political mainstream, while support for a two-state solution has largely disappeared among Jewish Israeli political parties. What would a change in government actually mean for Palestinians, the occupation and Israel's relationship with Europe? 🔗 Read our full interview: euobserver.com/243681/interv…

Listen: is the European Commission’s climate resilience plan enough? euobserver.com/245360/listen…

Secrecy Tracker: Media groups urge von der Leyen to tackle EU secrecy as watchdog probes Gaza documents euobserver.com/244698/secrec…

Europe wants to take greater responsibility for its own defence. But NATO's eastern flank still relies heavily on American troops.🛡️ Despite years of debate about European strategic autonomy, US soldiers continue to play a central role in protecting NATO's eastern border. In our latest interview, defence expert and former NATO official Robert Pszczel discusses Europe's military dependence on Washington, the security challenges posed by Russia and what European allies need to do to strengthen their own defence capabilities. 🔗 Read our full interview 👉 euobserver.com/244667/interv…

Revealed: New data shows Big Tech lobbying pushing EU towards sweeping data-protection rollback euobserver.com/245206/reveal…

Europe’s centre parties are collapsing – and, for the first time, the far-right are collaborating, rather than fighting euobserver.com/245132/europe…

At 4:36am, Czech MPs voted to advance a plan that could change how the country's public broadcasters are funded. Now, people are taking to the streets.🇨🇿 Prime minister Andrej Babiš's governing coalition pushed through the first stage of a bill to abolish TV and radio licence fees, with 96 MPs backing the proposal and 81 opposing it. Under the plan, Czech Television and Czech Radio would instead receive funding directly from the state budget. Critics warn this could make public broadcasters more vulnerable to political pressure, raising concerns about media independence. And the timing matters: the coalition kept its plans quiet until the last minute, limiting the opposition's ability to respond. The law is not yet final, but protests have already spread across the country. 🔗 Read the full story 👉 euobserver.com/244873/czech-…

Finnish president Stubb joins list of EU leaders seeking to tame Putin, in a 90-minute Kremlin phone call that caused a rift with Denmark euobserver.com/245311/finnis…

Two graphs and one map show that Russia is not currently winning the war (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,706) euobserver.com/245242/two-gr…