Gian-Paolo Accardo
@gpaccardo.bsky.social
🇮🇹 + 🇳🇱 in 🇧🇪 & 🇫🇷 | 🇪🇺 journalist | cofounder Voxeurop EDJNet europanow! | VP AJE France | Contributing to Internazionale & Libex | Oxford Climate Journalism Network alumnus | ECPMF SB member. Everything Europe.
Worth reading. The nice photo is Your Truly's.
📈What is the impact on the local economy – and ultimately on society – of the tens of thousands of Russian migrants who came to 🇬🇪 #Georgia after the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine?
👉 Georgian independent media iFact investigated. We've just translated it: voxeurop.eu/en/russian-t...
👉 Georgian independent media iFact investigated. We've just translated it: voxeurop.eu/en/russian-t...
January 29, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Worth reading. The nice photo is Your Truly's.
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🇬🇪Georgian Dream is Europe’s most un-democratic and human rights-violating force currently in power.
Today, they announced new amendments to the "Law on Grants" that criminalize receiving foreign support, restrict political participation, and outlaw core democratic activity
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Today, they announced new amendments to the "Law on Grants" that criminalize receiving foreign support, restrict political participation, and outlaw core democratic activity
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January 28, 2026 at 10:33 PM
🇬🇪Georgian Dream is Europe’s most un-democratic and human rights-violating force currently in power.
Today, they announced new amendments to the "Law on Grants" that criminalize receiving foreign support, restrict political participation, and outlaw core democratic activity
1/12
Today, they announced new amendments to the "Law on Grants" that criminalize receiving foreign support, restrict political participation, and outlaw core democratic activity
1/12
You can tell who is a true Boss from his/her deeds 👏👏
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM
You can tell who is a true Boss from his/her deeds 👏👏
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💌 Your favourite newsletter is out later today! This week we focus on two underreported countries we particularly care about: 🇧🇾 #Belarus and 🇬🇪#Georgia. We do it, as usual, through reports from local, independent media.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:37 AM
💌 Your favourite newsletter is out later today! This week we focus on two underreported countries we particularly care about: 🇧🇾 #Belarus and 🇬🇪#Georgia. We do it, as usual, through reports from local, independent media.
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🏴: 'Migrants steal our jobs'
🇪🇸 Left govt. grants legal status to 500K irregular migrants: 'Economic growth drives the labour market. A large part of this acceleration is due to migration: foreign workers accounted for 43% of the 605K jobs created in #Spain in 2025.'
www.publico.es/economia/emp...
🇪🇸 Left govt. grants legal status to 500K irregular migrants: 'Economic growth drives the labour market. A large part of this acceleration is due to migration: foreign workers accounted for 43% of the 605K jobs created in #Spain in 2025.'
www.publico.es/economia/emp...
Más empleo, más cotizaciones y más ingresos: la regularización de migrantes como motor económico
La afloración de empleo y una reducción de la economía sumergida son los efectos más visibles de la medida, apuntan los expertos.
www.publico.es
January 29, 2026 at 8:20 AM
🏴: 'Migrants steal our jobs'
🇪🇸 Left govt. grants legal status to 500K irregular migrants: 'Economic growth drives the labour market. A large part of this acceleration is due to migration: foreign workers accounted for 43% of the 605K jobs created in #Spain in 2025.'
www.publico.es/economia/emp...
🇪🇸 Left govt. grants legal status to 500K irregular migrants: 'Economic growth drives the labour market. A large part of this acceleration is due to migration: foreign workers accounted for 43% of the 605K jobs created in #Spain in 2025.'
www.publico.es/economia/emp...
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Georgian Dream has announced new amendments to the Russian-style laws on foreign grants and so-called “foreign agents.” What they’ve presented goes beyond legal absurdity, so I’m trying to fully understand it before reporting in detail. But it doesn’t look good at all.
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Georgian Dream has announced new amendments to the Russian-style laws on foreign grants and so-called “foreign agents.” What they’ve presented goes beyond legal absurdity, so I’m trying to fully understand it before reporting in detail. But it doesn’t look good at all.
🇬🇪 #Georgia's pro-Russia govt. goes deeper into its role model:
Georgian Dream is tightening the grants law again: any transfer of money from one person to another, if it is “used to influence the government or society”, will be considered a grant and will require Georgian Dream’s permission.
#TerrorinGeorgia
#TerrorinGeorgia
January 29, 2026 at 7:13 AM
🇬🇪 #Georgia's pro-Russia govt. goes deeper into its role model:
A journey into one of the many suburbs of "soo romantic Paris" that people – including Parisians and sometimes the very people who live there – never get to know, by my great colleague Francesca.
#Gentrification or urban renewal?
Bordering #Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis is the poorest and youngest district in metropolitan France, and distills many of the problems and paradoxes that tend to characterise the “banlieues.”
@francesca-b.bsky.social
#PulseEurope
voxeurop.eu/en/paris-urb...
Bordering #Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis is the poorest and youngest district in metropolitan France, and distills many of the problems and paradoxes that tend to characterise the “banlieues.”
@francesca-b.bsky.social
#PulseEurope
voxeurop.eu/en/paris-urb...
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
A journey into one of the many suburbs of "soo romantic Paris" that people – including Parisians and sometimes the very people who live there – never get to know, by my great colleague Francesca.
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#Belarus Prominent journalist, poet and political prisoner Andrei Aliaksandrau marks his 6th birthday behind bars. Outrageously unfair - he was sentenced to 14 years just for being a journalist. Free press and free speech are what Lukashenka truly fears.
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
#Belarus Prominent journalist, poet and political prisoner Andrei Aliaksandrau marks his 6th birthday behind bars. Outrageously unfair - he was sentenced to 14 years just for being a journalist. Free press and free speech are what Lukashenka truly fears.
Disponible à présent en français aussi :
🇧🇾 Cinq ans et demi après les élections truquées en #Biélorussie, la répression s'est transformée en terreur d'Etat.
🎤 Un journaliste, un avocat et un militant des droits humains racontent comment #Loukachenko maintient son pouvoir par la peur.
👉 L'article de Salidarnasts voxeurop.eu/fr/bieloruss...
🎤 Un journaliste, un avocat et un militant des droits humains racontent comment #Loukachenko maintient son pouvoir par la peur.
👉 L'article de Salidarnasts voxeurop.eu/fr/bieloruss...
January 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Disponible à présent en français aussi :
Rather proud of publishing this investigation. After reading it, you will not look at your "100% made of recycled plastic" food packages the same way:
🕵️♂️ A new massive investigation on #greenwashing is out!
🛢️Oil giant Saudi Aramco supplies plastic largely made out of crude oil and labelled as “recycled” to major consumer brands touting green claims to shoppers – with EU blessing.
Read it here: voxeurop.eu/en/ghost-rec...
🛢️Oil giant Saudi Aramco supplies plastic largely made out of crude oil and labelled as “recycled” to major consumer brands touting green claims to shoppers – with EU blessing.
Read it here: voxeurop.eu/en/ghost-rec...
January 27, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Rather proud of publishing this investigation. After reading it, you will not look at your "100% made of recycled plastic" food packages the same way:
And the worst part of this – besides the Ukrainian people's suffering – is that Kyiv has to refrain from retaliating, as Moscow and possibly Washington would blame Ukraine for "not wanting peace" and sabotaging peace talks…😡
Russia launched its largest aerial assault on Ukraine so far this year overnight, killing civilians and plunging much of the country into darkness — just hours after Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. officials held trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi.
Russia unleashes ‘brutal’ strike on Ukraine as peace talks continue
The overnight barrage killed civilians and knocked out power across much of the country. Trilateral negotiations are taking place in Abu Dhabi.
www.politico.eu
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 AM
And the worst part of this – besides the Ukrainian people's suffering – is that Kyiv has to refrain from retaliating, as Moscow and possibly Washington would blame Ukraine for "not wanting peace" and sabotaging peace talks…😡
Glad to start this fresh collaboration with Carl Henrik. Look forward fot the next episodes and readers' feedback!
🎥 Is there a link between Donald Trump's desire to 'own' #Greenland 🇬🇱 , Peter Høeg's novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, and Borgen?
🧔♂️ Check out Carl Henrik Fredriksson's new column, available only here, and let us know what you think! voxeurop.eu/en/method-ma...
✏️ By Niels Bo Bojesen 🇩🇰
🧔♂️ Check out Carl Henrik Fredriksson's new column, available only here, and let us know what you think! voxeurop.eu/en/method-ma...
✏️ By Niels Bo Bojesen 🇩🇰
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Glad to start this fresh collaboration with Carl Henrik. Look forward fot the next episodes and readers' feedback!
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January 22, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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🎙️ In case some here have forgotten or simply don't know how #Putin came to power and why he could not be trusted, I cannot recommend enough this brilliant BBC podcast series on the 1999 bombings and their aftermath:
www.bbc.com/audio/brand/...
www.bbc.com/audio/brand/...
BBC Audio | The History Bureau
Listen to the latest episodes of The History Bureau on BBC Audio
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January 19, 2026 at 2:52 PM
🎙️ In case some here have forgotten or simply don't know how #Putin came to power and why he could not be trusted, I cannot recommend enough this brilliant BBC podcast series on the 1999 bombings and their aftermath:
www.bbc.com/audio/brand/...
www.bbc.com/audio/brand/...
Brilliant
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Brilliant
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January 17, 2026 at 10:15 PM
⬜ 🟥 ⬜ A must-read if you want to understand the current situation in #Belarus. People are facing unprecedented repression – though we're still not a the level of 1937 under Stalin. Don't be lured by some occasional release of political prisoners: there are still more getting in than out.
🇧🇾 5 1/2y after #belarus stolen election, repression has hardened into state terror: mass arrests, silenced media, deportations and political bargaining.
🎤 A journalist, a lawyer and a human rights activist explain how #Lukashenka’s regime sustains power through fear.
👉 voxeurop.eu/en/belarus-p...
🎤 A journalist, a lawyer and a human rights activist explain how #Lukashenka’s regime sustains power through fear.
👉 voxeurop.eu/en/belarus-p...
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
⬜ 🟥 ⬜ A must-read if you want to understand the current situation in #Belarus. People are facing unprecedented repression – though we're still not a the level of 1937 under Stalin. Don't be lured by some occasional release of political prisoners: there are still more getting in than out.
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Tired of hearing how weak Europe is?
Make no mistake: if Europe is under attack today not only by Russia, but also China and the US, it’s because it offers a credible, and threatening, alternative to their models of power
Read @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
Make no mistake: if Europe is under attack today not only by Russia, but also China and the US, it’s because it offers a credible, and threatening, alternative to their models of power
Read @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
Europe Is Stronger Than Its Leaders Think
Alberto Alemanno warns policymakers against panic-driven reforms that threaten to undo hard-won gains.
www.project-syndicate.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Tired of hearing how weak Europe is?
Make no mistake: if Europe is under attack today not only by Russia, but also China and the US, it’s because it offers a credible, and threatening, alternative to their models of power
Read @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
Make no mistake: if Europe is under attack today not only by Russia, but also China and the US, it’s because it offers a credible, and threatening, alternative to their models of power
Read @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
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💌 Your favourite #newsletter is out later today! This week, we discuss the complex relationship of two post-communist countries, 🇧🇬 #Bulgaria and 🇽🇰 #Kosovo with their history.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
💌 Your favourite #newsletter is out later today! This week, we discuss the complex relationship of two post-communist countries, 🇧🇬 #Bulgaria and 🇽🇰 #Kosovo with their history.
🔸 Get the stories straight in your inbox: register to our weekly flagship newsletter: voxeurop.eu/en/our-weekl...
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See you on Tuesday!
Once privileged, #journalists face new challenges in 21st century Europe. Discover which in our talk with
@europeanjournalists.org director @renateschroeder.bsky.social & freelance reporter
@martaabba.bsky.social
📆 20/01/2026
🕐 12:30 CET
✍️ Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#PulseEurope
@europeanjournalists.org director @renateschroeder.bsky.social & freelance reporter
@martaabba.bsky.social
📆 20/01/2026
🕐 12:30 CET
✍️ Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#PulseEurope
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
See you on Tuesday!
See you on Tuesday!
#Webinar: What kind of challenges are journalists facing in the 21st century?
EFJ Director @renateschroeder.bsky.social will join this @voxeurop.bsky.social Live with @martaabba.bsky.social moderated by @gpaccardo.bsky.social.
📆 20/01/2026
🕐 12:30 CET
✍️ Registration: voxeurop.eu/en/event/liv...
EFJ Director @renateschroeder.bsky.social will join this @voxeurop.bsky.social Live with @martaabba.bsky.social moderated by @gpaccardo.bsky.social.
📆 20/01/2026
🕐 12:30 CET
✍️ Registration: voxeurop.eu/en/event/liv...
Voxeurop Live | Journalism, a profession under fire
Meagre pay, weak or non-existent social protection, and job insecurity. For years now, the press has been in a structural economic crisis, and it’s taking a toll on journalists. Once seen as privilege...
voxeurop.eu
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
See you on Tuesday!
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Deadline Extension ❗️
The Sigma Awards recognize the best of global data journalism. Entries must be for data projects published in the 2025 calendar year (between Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025).
🔗 Submit your best data journalism work by January 18, 2026:
The Sigma Awards recognize the best of global data journalism. Entries must be for data projects published in the 2025 calendar year (between Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025).
🔗 Submit your best data journalism work by January 18, 2026:
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2026 Sigma Awards for Data Journalism Open for Entries – Deadline Extended
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January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Deadline Extension ❗️
The Sigma Awards recognize the best of global data journalism. Entries must be for data projects published in the 2025 calendar year (between Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025).
🔗 Submit your best data journalism work by January 18, 2026:
The Sigma Awards recognize the best of global data journalism. Entries must be for data projects published in the 2025 calendar year (between Jan 1, 2025-Dec 31, 2025).
🔗 Submit your best data journalism work by January 18, 2026:
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Wheel of misfortune. Cartoon for Belgian newspaper @demorgen.be: www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cart...
#Trump #Europe #NATO #future
#Trump #Europe #NATO #future
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Wheel of misfortune. Cartoon for Belgian newspaper @demorgen.be: www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cart...
#Trump #Europe #NATO #future
#Trump #Europe #NATO #future
Very grateful to Irma and Hans for having shared some time with us and our community to talk about Georgia, one year after daily protests against the pro-Russia government started and, now, after the arrest of journalist #Mzia Amaghlobeli.
📺 The video of the insightful conversation we had with @irmadimitradze.bsky.social from @netgazeti.org and @hansgutbrod.bsky.social on the social, political and media situation in 🇬🇪 #Georgia is now available!
👉 Check it out: voxeurop.eu/en/event/liv...
#FreeMzia #GeorgiaProtests
👉 Check it out: voxeurop.eu/en/event/liv...
#FreeMzia #GeorgiaProtests
January 13, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Very grateful to Irma and Hans for having shared some time with us and our community to talk about Georgia, one year after daily protests against the pro-Russia government started and, now, after the arrest of journalist #Mzia Amaghlobeli.