Politics and democracy

Migration and asylum

An EU that wages war on refugees did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

By Francesca Spinelli

Press cartoon of the week

Civil Society

David and Goliaths

By Tjeerd - Trouw (Amsterdam)

Economy

From Romania to Ukraine and beyond: The lucrative business of Chinese cigarette smuggling

By Andrei Ciurcanu, Anna Myroniuk - Kyiv Post (Kiev)

Europe at large

“We want our lives back”, say refugees in the Romania-Ukraine borderlands

By Alissa Claire Collavo

Lector_end_europe_know_it

Balkans

The end of Europe as we know it?

gatis_sluka_viktor_orban_rouble

Economy

Viktor Orbán’s open arms for Russian residency bond owners

By Fanni Matyasovszki, Dániel Szőke - Direkt36 (Budapest)

Support border-free European journalism

Donate to bolster our independence

Press cartoon of the week

EU

Borisov, again?

By Christo Komarnitski - Sega (Sofia)

difficult-green-transition-tjeerd

Climate change

Europe faces the social cost of energy transition

By Peggy Corlin

EU

Giorgia Meloni is not going to shake up Europe overnight

By Cas Mudde - The Guardian (London)

Press cartoon of the week

Defence and security

Sham referendums

By Gatis Šļūka - Cartoon movement (Amsterdam)

Press cartoon of the week

Far right

Italy goes to the polls

By Kap

Environment, climate and science

The end of humanity in cartoons