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Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline
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