Daiva Repečkaitė

VALLETTA / LISBON / NICOSIA - In Southern Europe, water scarcity demands public investment and raises groundwater prices, but who profits? A three-country investigation identifies commercial actors with disproportionate water privileges in the EU’s most water-scarce countries: Malta, Cyprus & Portugal.

GŻIRA / ST JULIAN'S / ADEJE / ROQUETAS DE MAR - Amphora Media and Público’s investigation explores the factors attracting immigrants to Europe in the context of how public investments happen in specific localities.

VALLETTA / TUNIS / MARRAKECH / ISTANBUL - Mediterranean Low Cost investigates the negative impacts of touristification and gentrification on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, focusing on four areas particularly affected by the phenomena: Malta, Istanbul, Marrakech, and Tunis. 

BRUSSELS - Paradoxical plastics: Why are bioplastics not necessarily as good as a solution to plastic waste as the had been proclaimed?

VILNIUS - Cycling is indispensable in the European Union’s efforts to reduce emissions – this was clear from the European Urban Mobility Framework a year ago. But as policymakers set ambitious targets, transport is emitting more than before, using a third of the EU's energy, and keeping Europe dependent on Russian oil. EU’s structural and cohesion funds come to the rescue – or so it seems from pretty graphs. But when cyclists roll onto cycle paths built with these funds, they find an obstacle course: patchy, poorly maintained, sometimes too narrow paths leading nowhere.

VILNIUS - As an investigative team of journalists watched the pandemic unfold in early 2020, their plans for reporting in 15 European countries were scuttled. But they began to see patterns in covid-denialism that mimicked what they had seen with anti-vaxxers. They decided to expand their project to include investigative data journalism to map this new movement.