
Investigations

Poison PR
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.

False Promise of Biometrics
Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors

Desert Dumps
Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.

Sink the Boats
The UK government is paying France to ‘Stop the Boats’. Now first-time footage reveals French police have violently intercepted dinghies sailing for Britain, risking the lives of people on board

Frontex and the pirate ship
The EU’s border agency Frontex and the Maltese government are systematically sharing coordinates of refugee boats trying to escape Libya with a vessel operated by a militia linked to Russia, human trafficking, war crimes and smuggling.

France’s Digital Inquisition
Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.

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

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

Europe’s funding of EU-banned pesticides
Farmers in the Global South bear the brunt of European public investments on dangerous pesticides outlawed by the EU

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

Europe’s Black Sites
Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU

Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa

Tracking QAnon in Europe
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy

Revealing Europe's NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU

“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey

Biometrics in Africa's Elections
French multinational made 10s millions despite repeat failures

Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks

Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast

Unmasking Europe's Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security

Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations

Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation

Invisible Workers
Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU's farms at height of pandemic

Central Mediterranean
Revealing EU role in refoulement by proxy off Libya

Returns to Harm
Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine