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Justin Stares

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Covers:  The EU, the maritime industries, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Italy
Editor and founder of maritimewatch.eu

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Justin Stares’s Biography

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Brussels-based journalist and author specialising in the EU and Europe at large, in particular the EU institutions, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and shipping.
Founder of maritimewatch.eu, covering maritime trade with and within the EU.
Author, 'The Moon at the Bottom of the Well', the true story of an Italian shoeshine boy who became a Vietnam War photo-reporter.
Co-author, 'Grimaldi Armatori', the history of the Naples-based Grimaldi family and company.
Formerly head of News at Brussels S…

Justin Stares’s Journalist Portfolio

EU auditor fraudulently claimed vast expenses for holidays and hunting trips with European royals

EU auditor fraudulently claimed vast expenses for holidays and hunting trips with European royals

An EU official tasked with monitoring the bloc's expenditure fraudulently claimed vast sums of taxpayer money…

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Emmanuel Macron's strategy of outbursts is ploy to woo voters ahead of presidential election

Emmanuel Macron's strategy of outbursts is ploy to woo voters ahead of presidential election

For a better glimpse at Mr Macron's thought process you have to go back to his election in 2017, which was wo…

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Belgian surgeon sentenced to ten months in prison over sexist speech

Belgian surgeon sentenced to ten months in prison over sexist speech

Women served "to satisfy men sexually and perform household chores", he said, but "don't want to open their l…

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The right time to die

The right time to die

Declared euthanasia cases have more than doubled over the last decade in Belgium since assisted dying legisla…

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Has Hungary replaced one autocrat with another?

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By Justin Stares Verified
| Yahoo Verified
If you were the newly elected prime minister of Hungary, would you be tempted to take revenge on the previous regime by using its heavy-handed tools against it, even if that meant bending democracy? This is the question facing Peter Magyar, the former regime insider who replaced Hungary's longest-serving prime minister, Viktor Orban, following a landslide election victory in April.
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Problems pile up for European Commission before ETS rewrite

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By Justin Stares Verified
| Trade Winds Verified
TradeWinds is the essential source of global shipping business news and commentary. Our subscription service offers the highest quality product to our professional readers, with valued journalism, debate and networking across a range of platforms.
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Neither alive, nor dead, but collateral damage of the Ukraine war: The seafarer

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By Justin Stares Verified
| Brussels Signal Verified
The crews on board the world’s merchant fleet are the ghosts of world trade: Unseen, largely unloved and inhabiting a homeless netherworld the rest of us will never experience. Press-ganged and shanghaied over the centuries, the lot of the modern seafarer is hardly better. When Somali pirates roamed the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, they were kidnapped for ransom and blown up by the merciless Indian Navy.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I worked for my father's news agency in Swindon, England.

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