Archives: Investigations

04.12.2023

France’s Digital Inquisition

Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
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'No name' graves in Bijeljina cemetery, Bosnia
01.12.2023

Europe’s Nameless Dead

As more people try to reach Western Europe through the Balkans, taking increasingly dangerous routes to evade border police, many are dying without a trace
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01.11.2023

Abandoned Afghan Commandos

Left Behind: Dozens of Afghans who served in special forces units funded and trained by the UK have been murdered or tortured by the Taliban
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23.10.2023

Animal welfare wrecked

How an increasingly assertive meat industry helped derail a historic democratic demand to improve animal welfare standards in the EU
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Waste collectors sift through trash in Ward 11. Rachel Moon. July 2023
10.10.2023

The West’s Next Plastics Dump

As Southeast Asia bans plastic waste imports, rich countries are offloading their plastic waste in even more vulnerable places – where citizens are too afraid to say no.
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23.09.2023

Left for Dead

Left Behind: Afghans who worked for Dutch-funded NGOs were told they’d be evacuated to safety, but a shift in policy left them to face the wrath of the Taliban – with consequences that have proven deadly
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15.09.2023

Syrian Women on the Run

Denmark’s threats to send refugees back to Syria has disproportionately affected women – including some who fled abusive partners
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The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation
28.07.2023

Germany’s Afghan Betrayal

Left Behind: The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation
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The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration
20.07.2023

Smuggler, Warlord, EU ally

The lead smugglers behind the Pylos shipwreck are closely linked to General Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who EU leaders are partnering with to curb migration
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Why Europe and Ukraine are still struggling to ramp up ammunition production
10.07.2023

At war without ammo

Why Europe and Ukraine are still struggling to ramp up ammunition production
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29.06.2023

Drowning in Lies

Greece tries to cover up its own role in the Pylos shipwreck by tampering with evidence
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Europe’s Potemkin Lobby
29.06.2023

Europe’s Potemkin Lobby

Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds
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02.06.2023

The Crotone Cover Up

Italy lied about its role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up
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09.05.2023

The Instagarchs

How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media
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25.04.2023

Toxic Rain

Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola
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24.04.2023

Ethnic Profiling

Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
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17.04.2023

Spain’s AI Doctor

Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
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12.04.2023

France’s forgotten Afghan spies

Left Behind: A French-led intelligence cell in Afghanistan was kept secret for years – and now France has left its agents behind
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06.03.2023

Suspicion Machines

Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
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25.01.2023

War profiteers

How an Estonian arms broker pocketed millions at Ukraine's expense
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18.01.2023

Detained below deck

Asylum seekers held in secret cells on ferries between Greece and Italy
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03.12.2022

The Left Behind

Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul
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30.11.2022

Flight of the Predator

Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
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26.09.2022

Big Meat

How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies
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06.05.2022

The Hunger Profiteers

Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure
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23.03.2022

Ukraine Exodus

Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees
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