Chinese Film Week launched on 28 June at the China Cultural Centre in Brussels. Marking 50 years of China-EU diplomatic relations, the festival aims to deepen cultural ties and globalise Chinese cinema.

The first political clash over the EU’s next seven-year budget began in the European Parliament on Wednesday, exposing the deep divisions over defence, climate, and social spending.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created to distribute aid following the dismantling of the UN-led deconfliction mechanism, has become a symbol of the crisis: fortified hubs with biometric checkpoints, positioned across active conflict zones, offering insufficient calorie rations to people already debilitated by months of siege.

Legal 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 its institutions.

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.

Russian spies are still active in the EU capital and have a "higher risk appetite" than before the Ukraine war — despite Belgium's efforts to push back against their plots.