Mediterranean

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Cinemamed

Cinema & documentaries

Cinemamed 2025: Where the Mediterranean meets Brussels on screen

By Stefano Valentino

Alex Falcó Chang EU Migration

Migration and asylum

Libya and the EU: How many times can we do the same thing and expect a different result?

By Katia Golovko - EUobserver (Brussels)

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Balkans

Albanian author Arian Leka: ‘Exodus is a metaphor for life’

By Đorđe Krajišnik - Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento)

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Migration and asylum

In Europe just as in Trump’s America, the creeping criminalisation of migration and solidarity

By Adrian Burtin

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Ecology and biodiversity

Scrubbing the air, poisoning the sea: how “clean” shipping is destroying Mediterranean biodiversity

By Aïda Delpuech, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Federica Rossi

The garage wall of a fisherman in Marsaxlokk, Malta’s last remaining fishing town, is lined with nets, trinkets, and mementos from a lifelong career at sea. | Photo: ©Bruna Cases/RUIDO Photo

Fishing

Traditional fishing in the Mediterranean is disappearing, and with it, the people who keep it going

By Bruna Cases, Anna Montraveta Riu

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EU

Summer invasion

By Emanuele Del Rosso - Cartoon movement (Amsterdam)

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Climate change

Fighting fires with fires – and pasture, in Spain

By Davide Mancini

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Ecology and biodiversity

How submarine cables are threatening the fragile ecosystem of the Mediterranean seabed

By Michele Calamaio

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Ecology and biodiversity

Is the EU going easy on the Croatian tuna conspiracy?

By Stefano Valentino

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A mural featuring actress Claudia Cardinale, in the La Goulette district of Tunis. The actress's paternal grandparents, born and raised in the large Italian-Tunisian community, were fish merchants originally from Palermo. | Photo: ©Davide Mancini

Ecology and biodiversity

The punctured net of Mediterranean fishing regulation: the case of Tunisia

By Davide Mancini, Sara Manisera, Arianna Poletti

Press cartoon of the week

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Humanitarian aid

By Michael Kountouris - Efimerida ton Syntakton (Athènes)