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Drug scarcities: Why medicines are still in short supply. A cross-border investigation
Over the past 20 years, Europe has seen a 20-fold increase in drug shortages. Governments, including Romania’s, have used the Ukraine war and the energy crisis to obscure other – mostly structural – causes. This Europe-wide investigation (in which PressOne participated) reveals a range of explanations for Europe’s missing medicines.
Predator's control center has its roots in Skopje
Local regulators in North Macedonia turned a blind eye to Predator's development on their territory. A revealing investigation resulting from a partnership between Inside Story in Athens and the Investigative Reporting Lab in Skopje.
12/04/2023
"An addict is an ill person, not a criminal". Inside a consumption room in Portugal, the country that decriminalised drug use
Contested or viewed skeptically by some, admired and applauded by others, the Portuguese model is ever-present in debates on illicit substance policy. To better understand how it works and how Portugal's approach fits into the European context, PressOne spoke to experts in the field, both in Portugal and at EU level. Our reporter has also visited an NGO in Lisbon that works with addicts, in order to understand what drug harm reduction really means.
11/01/2023
Frontex: "We have nothing to do with the vote on Romania's admission into the Schengen space. We are not the source of the data" | Correspondence from Warsaw
How can a member state determine exactly by which route asylum seekers arrived in the country? PressOne reporters asked Piotr Świtalski, Frontex spokesperson.
Turkey: What Lies Behind the Attack in Istanbul
PressOne correspondent Carolina Drüten writes from Ankara about the first echoes of yesterday's attack in Istanbul, which killed six people and injured more than 80.
14/11/2022
Hungary: How the Orban regime is manipulating public opinion through feigned ”national consultations”
Hungary is in the middle of a "national consultation" regarding the anti-Russia sanctions imposed by the European Union. Although it looks like an interesting exercise of direct democracy, through which the government asks and the people answer, these consultations have no legal value.
31/10/2022
Elections in Bulgaria, for the fourth time in two years: no good news for the poorest country in the EU
On October 2, Bulgaria organized parliamentary elections for the fourth time in two years. With a record voter turnout of just over 30%, these elections will certainly bring the country to a deeper and deeper political crisis.
04/10/2022
How a small American town has become a transit point for Romanians who want to illegally enter the USA from Canada
On February 25, 2022, on a day when thermometers barely showed -15 degrees C, four SUVs crossed illegally from Canada to the United States, on a dirt road in the northern American state of Maine. 27 Romanian citizens, among them a pregnant woman, were crammed into the four vehicles which were advancing through the snow banks.
Iranian Women Living in Romania: "Any woman can be arrested by the morality police. They can beat you to death"
More than 3000 km away, in Romania, the Iranians living here are terrified for the safety of their families and friends back home. And for the women, it's even more painful: here they have found freedom, but they have never forgotten what an encounter with the morality police means and how hard it is to be a woman in a theocratic dictatorship.
26/09/2022
One Year of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan. "Our only fault is that we are women"
Women in Afghanistan have lost their freedom rights since the Taliban took over a year ago. One year after this event, we paid a visit to a country where the hopeful women of the past now are living in hiding.
14/08/2022
The Migrants Nobody Wants, Stranded Between Turkey and Greece: "In the sea you don't know if you are dead or you are alive"
We patrolled for four days together with the Turkish Coast Guard Command in the strait between Çeşme, Turkey, and the island of Chios, Greece.
11/07/2022
Covering up the Kompromat Operation. Evidence Fabricated Two Hours After Discussion With Interior Minister Lucian Bode
"I’ll have you know we’re not playing here, Mrs. Șercan!" These were the words with which, on February 21, quaestor Benone Matei, head of the Romanian Police, presented to me an alleged technical analysis. It showed that a screenshot, from which a kompromat operation against me had originated, was published by an Iceland-registered website, patrianoastra.com, before I handed it over to the Police.
07/07/2022
On the Front Line. The Ukrainians Who Won't Give Up
Mykolaiv is on the road towards another symbolic southern centre, the city of Odesa. But the Russian troops from the Crimean Peninsula that are headed towards Odesa stumbled near the entrance to Mykolaiv in the face of Ukrainian resistance.
11/05/2022