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Portfolio: EU affairs


Cinderella Cyclists
(with Barbora Janauerová and Zoltán Sipos, January 2023) — an investigation into faulty infrastructure built with EU funds in Czechia, Lithuania, Malta, and Romania

More harm than good – the misuse of European biodiversity funds (with Vaida Pilibaitytė and Elena Reimerytė, Green European Journal, 02/08/2022)

Lithuania – where ‘biodiversity funding’ is cutting down trees (with Vaida Pilibaitytė and Elena Reimerytė, EUObserver, 22/10/2021)

Why South Asia makes a good match for Britain after Brexit (one of the winners of The Future of Britain Project, Financial Times, 29/01/2017)

Baltic farmers devastated by swine virus (European Commission’s and national measures to stop African swine fever and their social impact, reporting for Equal Times, 22/09/2016)

Healing mental disorders with concrete (English version of Media4Change-funded reporting on EU funding and social care for people with mental disabilities in Lithuania, 15/04/2016)

European cities demand a say in refugee policy (reporting from Barcelona for the Lithuania Tribune, 26/05/2016)

Veolia claim against Lithuania offers case in point for EU trade liberalisation sceptics (reporting from Strasbourg for the Lithuania Tribune, 03/02/2016)

Supporters and critics of Poland clash in European Parliament (reporting from Strasbourg for the Lithuania Tribune, 26/01/2016)

Refugee resettlement stalling: European Parliament debates binding obligations including Lithuania (reporting from Strasbourg for the Lithuania Tribune, 20/01/2016)

Why are Baltic States posing as anti-Greece? (New Internationalist, 01/07/2015)

Latvia’s euro ambitions undeterred by Cyprus bailout (Equal Times, 08/04/2013)

We don′t want to be neighbours (article on Ukraine’s EU integration aspirations, which won the European Young Journalist Award in 2008 (originally published in Atgimimas)

In Lithuanian

Euroblogas articles

Liberty, equality… expulsion – on Roma evictions in France (Atgimimas, 02/09/2010). Related blog entry here.

Nationalism in Europe (Atgimimas, 26/06/2009), also republished by leading news portal Delfi. This article compared and analyzed the rise of ultra-nationalism in Europe.