Frontex Chapter III: Agency in Turmoil
Allegations of toxic culture at the EU’s border agency reveal a leadership under investigation over fraud and mismanagement.
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Europe’s Invisible Links to Burning Conflicts
Arms maintenance contracts perpetuate French involvement in proxy war in Libya, conflict in Yemen
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Frontex Chapter II: Complicit in Pushbacks
Illegal pushbacks in the Aegean aren’t rogue actions of the Greek national coast guard but operations undertaken with the support or connivance of an emerging EU super agency
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LATEST NEWS
Lighthouse Investigators Testify at European Parliament
Lighthouse Reports gave evidence to European Parliament hearings on May 10 scrutinising the role of the European border agency Frontex in illegal pushbacks in the Aegean. Lighthouse director Klaas van Dijken described a system designed to “prevent asylum seekers reaching Europe” and documented the complicity of Frontex in these operations. A months-long investigation with Der […]
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Lighthouse Sessions: Call for emerging journalists
With the Lighthouse Sessions, we offer the chance to emerging talent to develop these skills and gain exposure to collaborative journalism by working with us on impactful, real-world stories. Lighthouse Reports builds newsrooms around topics. These newsrooms are not attached to a single media platform or publisher. They exist to help working journalists tackle the […]
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Investigating Frontex
For the first time in its 15-year history the European Union’s coastal and border agency has been the subject of a wave of critical press coverage. Frontex is under investigation from the European Parliament to the anti-fraud agency, OLAF. Its leadership faces calls to resign over a rap sheet stretching from violating human rights and […]
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