How Greece’s Coal-Mining Heartland Won A Brief Reprieve After the War in Ukraine
The Greek government had promised a post-carbon economy to match its ambitious decarbonisation plan. But with little in the way of new investment, the outlook looked bleak – until #Russia invaded #Ukraine.
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Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Alumni Meeting
📌 Belgrade, Serbia
⚡️ 68 journalists from 13 countries will meet this weekend as part of the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Alumni Network.
Interesting discussions are ahead of us. Follow for more updates 📩
Making Babies, Pushing Boundaries: The Great Greek Fertility Market
Journalist Elvira Krithari took a look into the margins of Greece’s booming IVF industry.
What she found was that women trade their eggs and clinics gamble with ethics all while the state looks the other way.
Read the investigation: https://bit.ly/3jZZVwV
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Albanian Crime Story: Hostage to the Cocaine Supply Chain
Here's what a kidnapping in Albania reveals about Europe’s growing cocaine habit: https://bit.ly/3hJGWnK
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Neither in Nor Out: The Paradox of Poland's ‘LGBT-Free’ Zones
Poland's “LGBT-free zones” says more about the country's divided political landscape than it does about
realities on the ground.
Read Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence Fellow Jakub Janiszewski's story: https://bit.ly/3wW5sIN
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Green Ideals, Dirty Energy: The EU-backed Renewables Drive That Went Wrong
In the remote mountains of Serbia, home to rare species and pristine rivers, the government has overseen a construction spree, awarding subsidies for scores of small hydropower plants that have generated healthy revenues – and minimal electricity.
Dina Djordjevic's painstakingly researched story reveals how an EU-backed drive for renewable energy in the Balkans ended up spoiling the environment in the name of saving the planet: http://bit.ly/37mUce2
North Macedonia, Greece: Rewriting History After Prespa
This summer, the US and UK were gripped by protests over statues and the teaching of history – but in North Macedonia and Greece, these debates have an older pedigree.
Katerina Topalova’s nuanced story explores how the region’s historians have been pressed into the service of European diplomacy, in order to resolve the fundamental questions of identity and ancient history that have long divided Macedonians and Greeks.
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The Teenage Refugee’s Post-Pandemic Survival Guide
How would you survive as a teenage refugee in Greece, in the year of the pandemic?
Stavros Malichudis's innovative story uncovers a vicious cycle of detention centres, hostels, squats and exploitative jobs – a netherworld inhabited by thousands of teenage refugees, drifting from one bad option to another: https://bit.ly/2SgATug
‘Where Did Everyone Go?’ The Sad, Slow Emptying of Bulgaria’s Vidin
While the EU struggles with the migration crisis on its borders, the countries along its eastern periphery are confronting a demographic collapse, caused by outward migration, that has left once-bustling towns and villages abandoned to the elderly.
Angel Petrov travels to Bulgaria’s Vidin to reveal, in touching detail, how the world capital of population decline earned its title and lost its youth: http://bit.ly/2wRCq2N
Green Ideals, Dirty Energy: The EU-backed Renewables Drive That Went Wrong
INVESTIGATION | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network reveals in her latest investigation how a campaign to build renewable energy plants, supported by the EU, siphoned away subsidies and wrecked pristine waterways in Serbia and beyond.
Read the full story: http://bit.ly/37mUce2
‘Where Did Everyone Go?’ The Sad, Slow Emptying of Bulgaria’s Vidin
‘Energy Independence’: Critics Turn Up Heat on Croatian LNG Plan
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