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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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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Lighthouse Reports receives three-year grant from Dutch Postcode Lottery
AMSTERDAM — Lighthouse Reports, pioneers of collaborative journalism, are delighted to announce a three-year grant from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Lighthouse has a growing reputation for innovative, collaborative investigations and its work has been central to bringing the EU border agency, Frontex, under unprecedented scrutiny. The grant will help to enable Lighthouse to add further […]
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