EU leaders will meet this week in Brussels to discuss Russian frozen assets, the next EU budget plus the Middle East. Also this week the first-ever housing plan will be presented by the EU Commission and discussed in the plenary session in Strasbourg.

Donald Trump's new national security strategy casts overseas regulation as an attack on US interests and identifies preserving Big Tech dominance as a national security priority. It leaves no doubt about the administration’s intentions: US tech power is an asset to defend.

EU ministers have set out what a robust Ukraine peace deal would look like, but tempers fray over use of Russian frozen assets. 

EU states are struggling with upcoming border rules that critics say could led to detention-like centres. Under the new regime authorities will have only seven days to screen a prospective asylum seeker.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

Today, we kick off an anniversary campaign to convince new supporting members to join EUobserver's mission of providing the information citizens need to safeguard EU democracy.