Publisher/EiC @euobs, Brussels' premier non-profit news media on EU affairs. Small team, big ambitions. Open DMs for gossip.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined January 2012
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Emily O'Reilly, the first woman to hold the @EUombudsman post, is leaving her post after serving over a decade, and conducting nearly 4,000 investigations. @euobs spoke with her:
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The drainpipe in Brussels where a far-right MEP fled a gay orgy still attracts tourists, who take photos to remember Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's humiliation.
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With affordable housing getting harder and harder to find and the cost of living hitting hard young people, Gen Z and millennials are struggling to leave their parents' homes — and are moving into overcrowded households.
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The European Commission has admitted it only ever once questioned a member state for imposing internal border controls within the passport-free Schengen area.
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A new German-Kenya labour and migration deal appears to have fallen into the trap of over-promising on jobs, while carrying a sting on migrant returns.
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A shady Hungarian firm that supplied exploding pagers to Lebanon said EU institutions were among its other top clients — but its claims have been called into doubt.
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'Let Brussels eat worms'
Climate-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, taking in everything from 15-minute cities to net zero.
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During the week of the European Parliament elections, @euobs articles (plus the full archive) are free to read. Tell a friend!
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Als de voortekenen os niet bedriegen, dan gaat er een compleet andere wind waaien in Europa. vn.nl/radicaal-rechts-europa…
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Ursula von der Leyen's normalisation pattern is well known — but the centre-right gets its hands dirty in trying to respond to demands coming from the right. The next policy area that is seeing this pattern unfold is climate policy.
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Schreef acht jaar geleden een stukje dat met alle nieuwe verbeterde AI-assistenten OpenAI, Google, etc) eigenlijk relevanter is dan toen.
Hoeveel vrijheid wens je op te geven aan winstmaximalisatie en gemakszucht?
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Het is de ultieme droom van technologie als naadloos hulpmiddel in je leven en voor de industrie als geheel – met een kleine, nachtmerrieachtige onderlaag van systematische beïnvloeding door AI.
We hebben helemaal geen Terminator nodig om de mensheid te onderwerpen aan AI.
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Attention young journalists: @euobs is looking for pitches about youth and the EP elections.
Are you sitting on an interesting pan-European or national story?
Email it to at@euobserver.com and let's make it happen. Rates start at €300 for reported articles.
