While European oil giants pledge a 'zero-spill mindset' at home, their offshore operations along the Angolan coast appears to tell a different story. Chronic oil spills into the ocean leave communities without fish or fresh food, beaches are coated in crude, and toxic exposure increases diseases among coastal communities. A year-long investigation reveals Angola’s hidden human and environmental crisis.
Press freedom in Serbia has never been in such a dire state. Political leaders are fanning the flames of hatred, the government is extending its grip on public broadcasting, attacks against journalists are multiplying, and independent media are under ever greater threats – but they are resisting.
Following the longest murder trial in Maltese history, Yorgen Fenech’s acquittal leaves the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia without a perpetrator – and Malta facing up to its own failings.
In her State of the European Union (SOTEU) address, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced new measures on migration, including falling arrival numbers, a strengthened Frontex and a new emergency legislative framework. People continue to die in the Mediterranean, and the question of who will guarantee protection for those forced to flee remains unanswered.
