Good morning,
And we're back!
While you were out on a hopefully lovely summer break, Brussels has done a lot, but achieved little; a pragmatically subservient trade deal with Donald Trump, a lot of talk and zero action on Israel's war crimes in Gaza and a reiteration of support for Ukraine which was (and still is being) mercilessly bombed by Russia every day.
Meanwhile, a million hectares of forest burned in EU member states around the Mediterranean, far-right parties are polling on top in the U.K., France, Germany and the Netherlands – where the caretaker government, previously led and brought down by one of those far-right parties, managed to fall a second time –, Serbian proto-autocrat Aleksandar Vučić stepped up his violent protest crackdowns (and then wrote a pouty op-ed in the Guardian) while the EU looked the other way and Mario Draghi kept beating the drum on the recommendations in his report, which celebrated its first anniversary of being ignored last week.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Welcome back, everyone at EU institutions and agencies, media, civil society – and of course citizens.
As you start working on your email backlog and getting ready for one of the busiest months of the year, I just want to say that we're glad to get back into the routine of covering stories that truly matter.
And as always, your support is needed to keep us going. Consider it.
Looking forward to the coming political season.
– Alejandro Tauber, publisher
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