INVESTIGATIONS

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

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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10.05.2023

Ghost in the network

How a Swiss tech expert runs a global phone surveillance system

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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

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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08.12.2022

Europe’s Black Sites

Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU

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05.12.2022

Shot for Seeking Asylum

First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU

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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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05.10.2022

Tracking QAnon in Europe

Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy

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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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28.06.2022

“We were slaves”

Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey

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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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22.03.2022

Europe’s Black Seas

Disastrous discharge of oily wastewater continues despite monitoring

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02.09.2021

Moria: After the Fire

Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU’s largest refugee camp

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16.10.2020

Recycling Lies

Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste

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17.07.2020

Invisible Workers

Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU’s farms at height of pandemic

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23.06.2020

Masked men

Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence

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16.06.2020

Cast Adrift

Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts

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08.05.2020

Torment in Turkey

Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game

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09.11.2019

Returns to Harm

Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine

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09.08.2019

Shadow Population

Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population

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07.05.2019

Belgian Arms

Belgium sells air power to Saudis and ‘cop killer’ guns Mexico cartels

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