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In last month's 'State of the Nation' address in Budapest, an isolated Viktor Orbán outlined a strategy to ramp up his anti-EU disinformation campaign. European institutions must find a way to fight back, writes Hungarian MEP Katalin Cseh.

Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Hungarian philosopher, politician, and public intellectual died in January. He was often on the same side of the barricades as Viktor Orbán. Later he became key figure opposing Orbán's authoritarian measures, and inspired a new Left.

The EU's response has been swift and coordinated, but will need adjustments to be sustainable in the long term if they want to effectively adapt their markets to Ukrainian workers.

Telework in the EU has a growth potential of up to 49%—what if a status was created to work from any EU country without major bureaucratic hurdles?

Next summer's EU elections could see voters targeted by very personal ads and EU parties more free to take foreign money, as talks on new laws build momentum.

Hundreds of Belgian workers laid off last year are set to benefit from an EU job funding scheme after TNT, a logistics firm, made Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport their primary hub of operations.

In the spirit of ongoing experimentation, EUobserver presents our very first themed week. It's about work.

For France's over three million 'precarious workers' the retirement age has long been 67 — if they ever do retire.

Coming to Europe to work from outside the EU is hard. Despite dramatic labour shortages across sectors and EU countries, work permits for non-EU workers are few and those that exist often leave workers at the mercy of exploitative employers.

Meanwhile, in Brussels and Berlin talks are expected to intensify after Germany threw a spanner in the works last week on a bill to ban the sale of new combustion-engine cars and vans in the EU from 2035.

Belarus' jailing of a Nobel-prize winning activist was a "fake" judgment in a "sham trial", the EU's top diplomat has said, amid threats of further sanctions against the regime in Minsk.

Pro-transparency MEPs are asking probing questions into possible conflict of interest between a senior EU commission official and Qatar, following revelations his business class trips were paid by Doha while negotiating a market access deal for its national airline.

Corporate profits have been the dominant driver of inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic, yet the ECB consistently is more concerned about labour costs spiralling out of control.

Failure to urgently reconsider its support for Russia's war will further damage China's relations with the West and the global community, which would ultimately be disastrous for its economy and international standing. However, China could still choose another path.

Who defends Putin's interests in Brussels, how, and why: An investigation into four years' of data by Novaya-Europe names MEPs who loyally vote along pro-Russian lines.

The European Parliament's environment committee voted to end so-called 'super greenhouse gases' — used in cooling systems power transmission stations.

As the body count continues to rise from the Crotone shipwreck off the Calabria coast, authorities in Italy are looking for who to blame. At least 68 people are now confirmed dead, including children, after a 20-metre boat sank.

The pandemic, war, and inflation have only worsened a situation that already required urgent action. MEPs and NGOs fear that the lack of binding rules for member states will not ensure that those most in need are actually covered.

The launch of ChatGPT has sparked a worldwide debate on Artificial Intelligence systems. Amidst Big Tech's proclamations that these AI systems will revolutionise our daily lives, the companies are engaged in a fierce lobbying battle to water-down regulations.

Climate organisations Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and Notre Affaire à Tous are suing the Eurozone's biggest bank BNP Paribas over oil and gas financing.