![[Interview] Could musicians and dancers in Europe revolt against AI using their work? ‘It should be possible’, says performing arts boss](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/09/Orchestra-Photo-14719432-2400x1600.jpg)
Performers of works authored by others are in a particularly precarious position when it comes to AI training on their work. How can the EU protect them?
The former Italian prime minister tells EUobserver that Europe’s scale-ups in health and elsewhere are too small to survive the ‘China 2.0 shock’, and that without a finished single market Europe will keep losing out.
Lukashenko has tried to stay out of Putin’s Ukraine war as much as he could, in case Russia’s failure leaves the Belarusian leader needing Western friends.
Voters who feel “everything is going to hell” may be flocking to AfD, but a senior economist in Saxony-Anhalt warns that Germany’s greenest, fastest-ageing region could end up poorer and more isolated under their rule.
Casting the EU as the only real counterweight to a world split between Trump-style nationalism, Russian imperialism and Chinese expansionism, Wałęsa insists Europe must leap from nation-state thinking to continental power if it wants to survive.
![[Interview] Irish liberal MEP Barry Andrews: ‘Trade measures are the EU’s only real leverage over Israel’](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/07/20250827_EP-189673A_AH1_0412-e1785396809246-2400x1295.jpg)
Barry Andrews said his visit to the West Bank convinced him that what he calls Israeli “apartheid” can only be tackled by EU economic pressure.
As Iceland’s elites quietly bankroll a fiery ‘no’ campaign, a veteran pro-EU economist warns they are using money, fear and Kremlin-style talking points to shut down even the right to negotiate with Brussels.
![[Interview] Europe’s labs are chronically underfunded and sovereignty is at stake, says French Academy chief Françoise Combes](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/08/1920px-SpaceX_Crew_Dragon_More_cropped.jpg)
Françoise Combes explains why, even as AI accelerates discovery and SpaceX dominates the skies, the real battle for our future is being fought in underfunded European labs.
Intellectual property and copyright laws were developed to protect what people make. So what happens when a machine ‘makes’ something? Or when it is involved in making something? Who owns what a machine makes? How much human input is needed to make machine-generated content ‘human’? EUobserver sat down with copyright scholar Daniel Gervais to find out.
The same cheap civilian drones you can order online are being retooled into weapons faster than defences can adapt, creating a war zone where human control still exists on paper but is increasingly hollow in practice.
With the far right poised to govern parts of Germany for the first time since WWII, Boeselager warns that only bold economic fixes and fairer pension sacrifices can convince frustrated workers that democracy still delivers.
The first female president of Ireland is no stranger to marginalisation. But a trip to the West Bank proved how extreme injustice can become normalised if there is no accountability, which “the EU has levers” to change
![Rima Hassan in her Brussels office: '[It's] not merely a lack of courage; it is a criminal policy to advocate for a two-state solution today'](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/07/DSC_0345-2-2400x1602.jpg)
Rima Hassan MEP has seen displacement, an Israeli prison, refugee camps, and since becoming a politician just two years ago, has faced 22 legal proceedings. But the Left Franco-Palestinian MEP will not stop denouncing ‘the genocide that is currently taking place’.
Europe fears escalation with Russia, but by clinging to an “old world” mindset it may be quietly losing a war it refuses to acknowledge.
Amid burning refineries, grinding Ukraine warfare is eroding Putin’s power faster than Western sanctions, but it is not easy to foresee when or where a breaking point might come.
![[Interview] ‘Some of the resistance comes from people fearing they’ll end up without a job,’ says industry expert on Europe’s slow electrification](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/07/anja-van-de-gronde-PY7r5dJ_v-Y-unsplash-2400x1602.jpg)
According to Devan Pillay of Schneider Electric, it’s not just grids and prices holding electrification back. It’s also change-resistant engineers of the older generation that are running plants today. “Their attitude is: if it works, let’s leave it.”
![[Interview] The US Democrat trying to convince Brussels to stand up to Trump on methane](https://static.euobserver.com/2026/07/Captura-de-Pantalla-2026-07-13-a-las-18.28.15.png)
US congressman Sean Casten, a longtime champion of methane rules in Washington, recently wrote a letter urging EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen not to cave to US pressure to weaken the regulation. EUobserver asked him why he believes delay is a mistake.
Ukraine’s war planners see a paradoxical path ahead: even as battles grind on around Donbas, the real turning point may come from collapsing Russian logistics deep behind the front.
Heart disease, cancer, menopause and endometriosis: millions of European women are paying the price of late diagnoses, underfunded research and medicines never properly tested on their bodies.
Austrian expert on Russian hybrid warfare Pichler warns that Austria’s cult‑like neutrality and apathetic middle class have turned the country into a playground for Kremlin spin.
