Alessandro Ford
@alessandroford.bsky.social
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Brazil correspondent. Formerly in Medellín and Brussels.
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Like most people, I love 🇮🇹 cuisine. My nonna was a patriotic foodie who raised me on 🍝, 🧀, and 🥩. But she also raised me to tell the truth. And the truth is the Mediterranean diet has become a multi-billion euro lie. Read my latest for
@politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/medi...
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The Mediterranean diet is a lie
Italy’s food is supposed to be the world’s healthiest. So why are so many of its kids obese?
https://www.politico.eu/article/mediterranean-diet-child-obesity-italy-health-europe/
8 months ago
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What a week for Brazil. Happy to be writing for The Economist again.
www.economist.com/the-americas...
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America calls Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction a “witch hunt”
Brazil’s ex-president plans to wield political power from prison
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/09/14/america-calls-jair-bolsonaros-conviction-a-witch-hunt
18 days ago
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As a crime reporter-turned-EU 🌾 policy nerd, I never thought I'd get to combine my passions. Then Giuseppe Antoci arrived in Brussels... My latest 📝 with the marvellous
@elenagiordano.bsky.social
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add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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Trump is pestering the EU to buy more American soybeans. Here's why that won't work. My latest with
@thisisbartosz.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t.
There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-wants-europe-to-buy-more-us-farm-goods/
7 months ago
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Like most people, I love 🇮🇹 cuisine. My nonna was a patriotic foodie who raised me on 🍝, 🧀, and 🥩. But she also raised me to tell the truth. And the truth is the Mediterranean diet has become a multi-billion euro lie. Read my latest for
@politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/medi...
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The Mediterranean diet is a lie
Italy’s food is supposed to be the world’s healthiest. So why are so many of its kids obese?
https://www.politico.eu/article/mediterranean-diet-child-obesity-italy-health-europe/
8 months ago
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10 months ago
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Belgian police raid homes of former EU justice chief Didier Reynders – two days after end of term
Didier Reynders, until last Saturday the European Commissioner for Justice, is suspected of money laundering by the Belgian police. For about a decade, Reynders allegedly bought lottery tickets with d...
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/european-commissioner-didier-reynders-investigated-for-alleged-fraud?utm_campaign=Lise-Witteman&utm_source=article&utm_medium=link&share=C6EISLHW%2FV0Mu%2BCxgoCd0fLtGKkfn0GGXbT8Fw%2FEZnKrevNcv1%2BbV9qg9an7vg%3D%3D
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The far-right is trying to use "blood and soil" rhetoric to win over farmers. In Romania, it's working.
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Romania’s presidential front-runner is all about farmers
Far-right independent Călin Georgescu is trying to capture rural voters with fascist tropes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-presidential-frontrunner-calin-georgescu-farmers-agriculture-soil/
10 months ago
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