Alejandro Tauber

1 week ago | euobserver.com | Alejandro Tauber

What do “Marine le Pen”, “Nazi”, “FEMYSO”, “#EvaKaili”, “communism,” “Viktor Orban” and “Christianity” have in common? At first glance, not much, which makes it all the more puzzling why X users who’ve shown an interest in these topics or figures were purposefully excluded from seeing ads run by the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) at the European Commission between September 2023 and May 2025.

1 month ago | euobserver.com | Alejandro Tauber

Katherine Kondor is used to being an outlier. While many of her colleagues study the far-right through voting patterns and party policies, her research covers clothing brands, Instagram aesthetics, food, and the top 40 music charts. “Culture creates the conditions for political movements to thrive,” she says. “It’s not just about who you vote for.

1 month ago | euobserver.com | Wester van |Alejandro Tauber

“To put it briefly, we are the detectives of potential public health threats”, Laura Espinosa tells EUobserver. Espinosa is an expert on epidemic intelligence at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), a group few people have heard about — thankfully.

1 month ago | euobserver.com | Alejandro Tauber

ExplainerFor years, EUobserver has been tracking the European Union's increasing efforts to move asylum processing and responsibilities beyond its borders — a policy euphemistically referred to as "externalisation" and “border management”. This controversial trend raises significant legal, ethical, and humanitarian questions — but recently has been gaining increasing political acceptability.

1 month ago | euobserver.com | Alejandro Tauber

This article features in The EU's Unsung Heroes, read the full magazine here. Four minutes before the interview was due to start, a call from the comms department: Esther Lynch is hesitant to be featured in a magazine about unsung heroes, because she doesn’t see herself as a hero. Which is exactly why she’s featured in this magazine. Lynch never imagined herself in the spotlight.