Italian-Dutch journalist Gian-Paolo Accardo is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the European independent and multilingual news site Voxeurop.

He is also a contributor to Internazionale. Before that, he was deputy news editor of Courrier international and a correspondent for the TMNews news agency. He lives between Brussels and Paris.

Gian-Paolo Accardo

Basic information

Name
Gian-Paolo Accardo
Title
Co-founder and Executive editor
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels
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Supported projects

Carmakers strike back: How they lobbied down new EU emissions rules

  • Corruption
  • Healthcare
  • Industry
  • Transport

BRUSSELS – A team of investigative journalists led by Voxeurop carried out a cross-border investigation into how the European automotive industry lobby managed to weaken the Euro 7 regulation on new motor vehicle emissions standards.

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Twenty years of SARS

  • Healthcare
  • Science

BRUSSELS - Twenty years ago, the first SARS outbreak sounded the alarm. But Europe failed to prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic due to a lack of funding for drug research, and may still be unprepared for the next one, argue several prominent scientists interviewed by Stefano Valentino and Gian Paolo Accardo.

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Lucifer's Spell

  • Climate
  • Environment

LECCE - EVIA - The Mediterranean basin is a hotspot of the climate crisis, with average temperatures rising above global trends. Heat waves, droughts and a combination of anthropogenic factors are provoking new generations of wildfires that are devastating for ecosystems and for human societies.

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The Top 100 European Places Where Dieselgate Kills the Most

  • Environment
  • Healthcare

BRUSSELS - Excess diesel emissions produce a tiny portion of harmful dusts. Yet, they cause dozens of deaths in Europe’s highly populated road traffic hotspots. The fact that they have such a high health impact despite their relatively small contribution to overall pollution reveals how seriously air contamination threatens our lives.

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