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With our focus on EU affairs, we do public service journalism for people in(to) policy. We provide a platform for (and do) investigative work, publish analysis, context, opinions, news and features. Here are some of our favourite stories from last year:
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While Rwanda's Paul Kagame may be every Western leader's best African friend, it's a very different story among the political and cultural diaspora who left their homeland for a new life in Europe. Foreign editor Andrew Rettman talks to relatives and survivors of those who have displeased Kagame.
Our new/returning Africa editor, Benjamin Fox based out of Nairobi, looks at how China is using Africa's need for investment capital, and disenchantment with EU green regulations, to build new relationships on the continent.
Editor-in-chief @elenasanchez.bsky.social takes a deep dive into voting records to see how the new far-right in the Brussels parliament votes against helping Ukraine — although, interestingly (and fortunately?), there are splits among the ranks of the new extremist populist flank of MEPs too.
A joint piece with our friends at @lhreports.bsky.social and our own @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social, looking at how US climate-change denial and anti-vaccine protests have spread across the Atlantic — making even such a benign concept as the '15-minute city' into a battleground for conspiracy theories.