Unlocking a welfare fraud prediction algorithm
Rotterdam has deployed a predictive algorithm to flag welfare recipients for investigation; we obtained the source code.
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Vaccinating Europe’s Undocumented: A Policy Scorecard
The pandemic saw anti-migrant politics clash with public health needs, using data journalism to illuminate the outcome
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How Big Meat Sabotages EU Reforms
Investigating the industrial complex around cheap meat, how it exerts undue influence on EU policy and whose interests it really represents
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Europe struggles to vaccinate its undocumented population, as toxic politics undermine public health goals
Portugal is leading Europe in its efforts to vaccinate undocumented migrants during the pandemic, while Germany and Denmark are among the continent’s wealthier nations with serious shortcomings revealed in their public health campaigns during Covid. Portugal and the UK were ranked “open and accessible” in a major investigation into COVID-19 vaccination drives among undocumented, carried […]
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Undocumented≠Unvaccinated: Has Europe failed vulnerable migrants during Covid?
REGISTER HERE > Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right. Access to healthcare during the pandemic has proven a literal matter of life or death. There are many however, who are excluded because of their lack of a regular status in the country where they reside. While this is a very heterogenous group, they […]
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Shadow Armies Uncovered
The hardest edge of Europe’s migration policy is encountered on land and at sea in the form of masked men. Their violent actions against vulnerable people on the move, often seeking international protection, are far removed from political discussions in Brussels. From Balkan forests to the Aegean Sea consistent reports have emerged of physical assaults, […]
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