Type of site Online newspaper Launched 2000 | Commercial No Current status Active | |
Owner EUobserver.com ASBL (non-profit) Website | ||
EUobserver (stylised euobserver) is a European online newspaper, published since 2000 by the Brussels-based organisation EUobserver.com ASBL. The newspaper covers international affairs related to the European Union, providing both daily reports and in-depth investigations, and is financially and editorially independent of the EU institutions. It has over 60,000 daily readers and is the second most read EU-related news source used by journalists after the Financial Times.
Upon its launch in 2000, EUobserver claimed to be published in cooperation with the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities, a Eurosceptic group of parties that later became the Independence/Democracy group. The website's founder, Lisbeth Kirk, Danish journalist, the wife of Jens-Peter Bonde, a former Danish Member of the European Parliament who used to co-chair the Independence and Democracy group of eurocritical MEPs in the European Parliament.
Veronika Szente Goldston, Human Rights Watch’s advocacy director for Europe and central Asia has said of the paper: "EUobserver has the most in-your-face journalists in Brussels."