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Maria João Morais
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Editors' Pick
January 31, 2018
Brazilian democracy under threat
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Maria João Morais
Brazilian democracy is thus in grave danger: elections must be won at the ballot box and not in court.
Editors' Pick
January 24, 2018
Murder resparks tensions in unstable Balkans
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Maria João Morais
The unsolved murder of the Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic is streching the relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
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January 17, 2018
Radical drug reform reducing addiction in Portugal
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Maria João Morais
A radical drug reform has converted Portugal's drug mortality rate to become the lowest in Western Europe.
Editors' Pick
January 11, 2018
When saving lives becomes a crime
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Maria João Morais
The criminalisation of NGOs who are assisting migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, has become increasingly frequent in recent months.
Editors' Pick
January 03, 2018
Easing the right-wing surge, the challenge in 2018
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Maria João Morais
In 2018, elections that will take place in Italy and Sweden will show if European countries with radical right-wing governments are on the road to success.
Editors' Pick
December 27, 2017
Politicians spending the festive season locked up in Spanish jails
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Maria João Morais
We need dialogue and negotiation in order to ensure the continuation of coexistence, tolerance and peace in Catalan and Spanish societies.
Editors' Pick
December 20, 2017
Iceland’s efforts to close the gap
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Maria João Morais
For the ninth year in a row, the World Economic Forum ranked Iceland the most equal country in the world.
Editors' Pick
December 13, 2017
Border issue undermining reconciliation in Northern Ireland
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Maria João Morais
Recent events have showed that British politicians gave little thought to the dire consequences for Northern Ireland with the return of a hard border.
Editors' Pick
December 07, 2017
As winter comes refugees remain trapped on Greek islands
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Maria João Morais
More than two years after the outbreak of the refugee crisis, the latest Greek emergency highlights, once again, the failure of the EU migration policy.
Editors' Pick
November 29, 2017
Bosnia still struggling to overcome ethnic divisions
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Maria João Morais
Two decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are still embroiled in the legacy of war. Does the Hague court's verdict bring reconciliation?
Editors' Pick
November 22, 2017
Widespread hunger crises remain largely ignored
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Maria João Morais
The lack of attention paid to the widespread hunger crises by the media hinders resolving the conflicts and directing humanitarian aid.
Editors' Pick
November 15, 2017
A new hope for Africa’s last colony?
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Maria João Morais
Western Sahara - a forgotten territory, which has been occupied by Morocco for 42 years.
Editors' Pick
November 08, 2017
Behaviour against women has reached a tipping point
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Maria João Morais
The collective blindness that has for decades accompanied all kinds of behaviour against women seems to finally be reaching a point of no return.
Editors' Pick
November 01, 2017
Atlantic sardine plight underlines threats to global fish stocks
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Maria João Morais
The Atlantic sardine is in danger of becoming wiped off the planet.
Editors' Pick
October 25, 2017
Europe still surfing the waves of populism
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Maria João Morais
After the rise of far-right parties in recent European elections we observe a worrying shift of far-right parties towards the mainstream.
Editors' Pick
October 18, 2017
Portugal’s neglected interior up in flames (again)
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Maria João Morais
As the Portuguese begin to recover from last June’s shock, tragedy repeats itself only four months after the deadliest wildfires in the country’s history
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