05.12.2022
Shot for Seeking Asylum
First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU
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Archives: Investigations
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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29.11.2022
Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies
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12.10.2022
Fate of Ukraine’s Foreign Students
Tracing non-white students who fled invasion but faced Europe’s hostility
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12.10.2022
Pension Funds Fuel Hunger Crisis
Uncovering the billions of euros gambled on commodities by reckless funds
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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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28.08.2022
Revealing Europe’s NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU
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30.06.2022
Syria’s “Bloody” Phosphates
Secret trade with EU enriches Assad regime and evades sanctions
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28.06.2022
“We were slaves”
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey
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25.06.2022
Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced
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03.06.2022
Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
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24.05.2022
Biometrics in Africa’s Elections
French multinational made 10s millions despite repeat failures
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06.05.2022
Frontex, the EU Pushback Agency
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks
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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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01.04.2022
Putin’s Syrian Mercenaries
Russia’s exploitative foreign mercenary system sending Syrians to Ukraine
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25.03.2022
Turning a blind eye to Egypt’s violent navy
Dictatorship known for war crimes gets billions in naval exports
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23.03.2022
Syria’s Russian-Backed Demolition Campaign
Russian-led fake demining campaign a cover for community reprisals
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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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23.02.2022
From Switzerland with love
Swiss arms harming civilians from Brazil’s favelas to Afghanistan
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17.02.2022
Aegean Pushbacks Lead to Drowning
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast
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10.01.2022
Syrians fleeing Denmark
Mapping the EU flight of refugees fleeing Danish crackdown on Syrians
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10.01.2022
Europol to be Europe’s NSA?
Investigation uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data
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22.12.2021
Who died at Europe’s border?
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border
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18.12.2021
Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating
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16.11.2021
Vaccinating Europe’s Undocumented
Policy scorecard ranks European countries efforts to respond to Covid 19
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19.10.2021
Big Meat Sabotages Reform
How the meat industrial complex exerts undue influence on EU policy
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13.10.2021
Dark Side of Spain Slaughterhouses
Fear, racism and exploitation in publicly subsidised pork companies
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13.10.2021
Spanish pork: out of control
Eco-disaster in EU’s largest salt lagoon has culprit hiding in plain sight
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06.10.2021
Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security
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20.09.2021
Circumventing a Danish export ban
Denmark’s largest IT company arming UAE forces active in Yemen
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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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14.06.2021
EU Spy Tech in Myanmar
EU funds and techn secretly aid junta in spying on Burmese
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29.04.2021
Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations
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20.04.2021
Why Denmark Declared Syria Safe
Denmark’s murky path to declaring refugees should return to Syrian capital
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02.04.2021
What is Palantir Doing in Europe?
Tracing US tech giant roots in EU security, public health, aviation and data
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05.02.2021
Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation
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16.11.2020
EU’s Invisible Links to Wars
Maintenance deals perpetuate French involvement in war in Libya, Yemen
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23.10.2020
Frontex Complicit in Pushbacks
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency
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16.10.2020
Recycling Lies
Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste
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05.10.2020
UK’s toothless arms control
Tracing British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
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25.08.2020
Airbus maintaining Turkey’s war
European giant aids Turkey with military airbridge to embargoed Libya
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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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08.05.2020
The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions
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05.04.2020
Deep Pushbacks From Greece
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea
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