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With our focus on EU affairs, we do public service journalism for people in(to) policy.    We provide a platform for (and do) investigative work, publish analysis, context, opinions, news and features. Here are some of our favourite stories from last year:

euobserver.comHandshake of death: EU embrace of Kagame helping silence dissidents in BelgiumEvery time EU leaders shake hands with Rwanda's president Paul Kagame, they embolden him to commit crimes against dissidents in Belgium, making themselves morally liable.

While Rwanda's Paul Kagame may be every Western leader's best African friend, it's a very different story among the political and cultural diaspora who left their homeland for a new life in Europe. Foreign editor Andrew Rettman talks to relatives and survivors of those who have displeased Kagame.

euobserver.comChina set to offer green investment boost to Africa, as EU watches from sidelinesNew investment in African manufacturing of Chinese electric vehicles and for the continent’s green industrialisation is set to dominate a China-Africa summit this week — as Beijing seeks to circumvent...

Our new/returning Africa editor, Benjamin Fox based out of Nairobi, looks at how China is using Africa's need for investment capital, and disenchantment with EU green regulations, to build new relationships on the continent.

euobserver.comEU parliament voting data reveals Ukraine's MEP foesThe European Parliament approved a €35bn financial assistance package for Ukraine, though voting data reveals MEPs sympathetic to Russia.

Editor-in-chief @elenasanchez.bsky.social takes a deep dive into voting records to see how the new far-right in the Brussels parliament votes against helping Ukraine — although, interestingly (and fortunately?), there are splits among the ranks of the new extremist populist flank of MEPs too.

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euobserver.comHow QAnon pushed climate-denialism into European mainstreamClimate-change deniers and anti-vaxxers are converging online in far-right conspiracy groups, according to an investigation by the nonprofit investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports and EUobserver, t...

A joint piece with our friends at @lhreports.bsky.social and our own @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social, looking at how US climate-change denial and anti-vaccine protests have spread across the Atlantic — making even such a benign concept as the '15-minute city' into a battleground for conspiracy theories.

euobserver.comRule 241: the EU’s hidden ‘bombshell’ against anti-democratic forcesLegal scholars have dubbed it a "sleeping beauty" — a potent yet practically unused EU Parliament instrument akin to the EU's own Article 7, designed to safeguard the rule of law and the integrity of ...

Hidden in plain sight within the European Parliament's own rules of procedure is a little-known provision that could dramatically alter the Union's ability to defend its democratic values from internal threats. Let publisher @alejandrotauber.bsky.social introduce you to Rule 241.

euobserver.comPeer-review shreds 'degrowth' concept — but is the criticism justified?Two researchers have reviewed 561 degrowth papers — and concluded in a peer-reviewed journal that "almost 90 percent of studies are more opinion-based [rather] than analytical."

'Degrowth' has been on the fringes of green economic thinking for decades. A sure sign that it is breaking through into the mainstream is that it is now under fire from mainstream academics. But is their takedown itself justified, or even rigorous? @westervangaal.bsky.social doesn't think so.