Ahead of the US election, the architect of Trump’s family separation policy – slated to return to office if Trump is re-elected – is using border disinformation to lay the groundwork for challenging the election results.
The EU has funnelled hundreds of millions of euros into a shadowy deportation system operating just outside its borders in Turkey. Syrian and Afghan refugees have been detained, abused and even killed as a result
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.
Previously unpublished execution videos link leaders of the Sudanese RSF militia to ethnic massacres in the Western region of Darfur.
Analysis of 100mn conspiracy posts on social media reveals the key ingredients of virality by tracing the mainstream emergence of a climate denial theory
Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors
Before the fall of Kabul, billions of dollars were sunk into a failing Western intervention. New records reveal the Afghan contractors who profited and the millions they stashed in Dubai property.
Angry farmers seized the political agenda across Europe but how many of their actual demands reached the negotiating table? We profile the power brokers who turned protests to their advantage
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.
Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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
Visual investigation reconstructs the unseen events which saw 40 people suffocate to death in a migrant detention centre fire in Ciudad Juárez, disproving official account
Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals
The UK has turned away hundreds of Afghan commandos paid and trained by the British military. Some had complained about or say they witnessed war crimes by the same UK forces who were given veto power over their applications, with insiders warning of a conflict of interest.
Frontex has shared locations of migrant boats with Libya’s coast guard more than 2,000 times in three years – despite watching them whip, beat and shoot at passengers
President Bashar al-Assad is demolishing opposition neighbourhoods in order to create a shiny new Syria – one in which dissent never existed – and reward his cronies with the spoils
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.
Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
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
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
How an increasingly assertive meat industry helped derail a historic democratic demand to improve animal welfare standards in the EU
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.
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
Denmark’s threats to send refugees back to Syria has disproportionately affected women – including some who fled abusive partners
Left Behind: The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation
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
Why Europe and Ukraine are still struggling to ramp up ammunition production
Greece tries to cover up its own role in the Pylos shipwreck by tampering with evidence
Powerful European farming lobby Copa-Cogeca is losing legitimacy even as it stymies the EU’s green agenda and hoovers up public funds
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
How a Swiss tech expert runs a global phone surveillance system
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
Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
Farmers in the Global South bear the brunt of European public investments on dangerous pesticides outlawed by the EU
Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
Analysis shows hedge funds were some of the biggest winners from the global food price spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Left Behind: A French-led intelligence cell in Afghanistan was kept secret for years – and now France has left its agents behind
How high-ranking Croatian officials presided over clandestine communications about border operations
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
How an Estonian arms broker pocketed millions at Ukraine’s expense
Asylum seekers held in secret cells on ferries between Greece and Italy
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban
Refugees arbitrarily detained, tortured at secret facilities in EU
First video of live ammunition being used against asylum seekers in EU
Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
Visual evidence, testimony, ground reporting reveal Spain and Morocco lies
Tracing non-white students who fled invasion but faced Europe’s hostility
Uncovering the billions of euros gambled on commodities by reckless funds
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy
How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU
Secret trade with EU enriches Assad regime and evades sanctions
Greece uses asylum seekers to forcibly return migrants to Turkey
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
French multinational made 10s millions despite repeat failures
Frontex’s internal data shows EU border agency involved in mass pushbacks
Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure
Russia’s exploitative foreign mercenary system sending Syrians to Ukraine
Dictatorship known for war crimes gets billions in naval exports
Russian-led fake demining campaign a cover for community reprisals
Damaging double standards undermines Europe’s response to Ukraine refugees
Disastrous discharge of oily wastewater continues despite monitoring
Swiss arms harming civilians from Brazil’s favelas to Afghanistan
Whistleblowers claims new tactic of being thrown overboard off Turkish coast
Mapping the EU flight of refugees fleeing Danish crackdown on Syrians
Investigation uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data
Using OSINT to find life stories of nameless dead at Poland-Belarus border
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating
Policy scorecard ranks European countries efforts to respond to Covid 19
How the meat industrial complex exerts undue influence on EU policy
Fear, racism and exploitation in publicly subsidised pork companies
Eco-disaster in EU’s largest salt lagoon has culprit hiding in plain sight
Shocking evidence links violence against asylum seekers in EU to state security
Denmark’s largest IT company arming UAE forces active in Yemen
Year in the life of survivors of blaze that destroyed EU’s largest refugee camp
EU funds and techn secretly aid junta in spying on Burmese
EU agency plays a direct role in Libyan coast guard’s interception operations
Denmark’s murky path to declaring refugees should return to Syrian capital
Tracing US tech giant roots in EU security, public health, aviation and data
Toxic culture at EU’s border agency, leadership under investigation
Maintenance deals perpetuate French involvement in war in Libya, Yemen
Pushbacks in Greece undertaken with support or connivance of EU super agency
Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste
Tracing British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
European giant aids Turkey with military airbridge to embargoed Libya
Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU’s farms at height of pandemic
Clandestine state forces behind most violent pushbacks, according to new evidence
Greek coast guard intercepts asylum seekers, abandons them on life rafts
Asylum seekers funneled to EU border are pawns in power game
Reconstructing a death at the Greek-Turkish border raises serious questions
New wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea
Revealing EU role in refoulement by proxy off Libya
Iranian activists attempt to address an endemic issue with violence against women
Traveiling with perpetrators of Darfur atrocities illuminates self-styled saviors
Iberia and Airbus secretly profit from Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen
Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine
Swedish and Danish companies profit from selling arms to UAE and Saudis
Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population
Belgium sells air power to Saudis and ‘cop killer’ guns Mexico cartels
Secrets of France’s arms sales give lie to strict control regime
German-made military equipment used by Saudis and UAE in war in Yemen
Protesters from the streets and take them to secret torture prisons
Tracing Italian weapons to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia