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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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Fear and loathing in Spain’s slaughterhouses
Fear, racism and exploitation: Pork companies subsidised by Spain and the EU have been responsible for abusive labour practices inside Spanish slaughterhouses.
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Spanish pork: out of control
The eco-disaster in Europe’s largest salt lagoon gripped Spain, but we found one of its main culprits hiding in plain sight
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Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Getting the visual evidence that removes the layer of plausible deniability from illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers in the Balkans and Aegean
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Circumventing a Danish export ban
Denmark’s largest IT company, Systematic, is arming UAE forces active in Yemen, in direct violation of a Danish export ban
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Moria: After the Fire
Tracing a year in the life of asylum seekers who survived the blaze that destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp
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EU Spy Tech Serves Myanmar Junta
While the military coup and deadly crackdown in Myanmar has drawn European condemnation, EU funds and technology have secretly aided the junta in spying on its own population
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Frontex in the Central Mediterranean
The EU borders agency plays a direct role in the Libyan coast guard’s interception operations contrary to previous denials
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What is Palantir Doing in Europe?
The controversial US tech company is putting down roots in the EU’s security, public health and aviation sectors as well as its data infrastructure, raising questions
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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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Recycling Lies
Delving into the plastic waste labyrinth to unveil how traders illegally ship Europe’s growing stockpile of plastic waste. And how it ends up in landfills and rivers far from the EU
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UK’s toothless arms control
The UK claims to strictly control its arms exports, but an investigation traced British-made sniper rifles to Yemen, Syria and Russian-occupied Ukraine
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Airbus maintaining Turkey’s war
How one of Europe’s most famous companies is helping Turkey sustain a military airbridge with war-torn Libya despite a UN arms embargo
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Invisible Workers
Europe-wide investigation reveals modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on Europe’s farms at height of pandemic
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Masked men
The most violent pushbacks at Europe’s external borders are done by men in balaclavas. Are they vigilantes or clandestine state forces?
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Pushbacks Chapter two
Greek coastguard employing more aggressive tactics in intercepting asylum seekers and towing them back on life rafts towards Turkey
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Torment in Turkey
Encouraged by Erdogan, thousands took to the Pazarkule border gate. But they soon realised they were pawns in a power game
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The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
The death of a Pakistani man during a standoff at the Greek-Turkish border raised serious questions. We consider the evidence
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Pushbacks Chapter one
Documenting a new wave in Greece of extrajudicial deportations overland and at sea, a practice that came to be known as deep pushbacks
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Central Mediterranean
Revealing the EU’s role in the wholesale violation of international law and the creation of a refoulement by proxy off Libya
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Sheherezade Now: Iran’s Domestic Violence
An inside perspective on a high-risk attempt by Iranian activists to address an endemic issue with violence against women
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Sudan’s violent new rulers
A journey into uncharted territory in Sudan, with the perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur, reveals the true nature of its self-styled saviors
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Spain maintains war in Yemen
While Saudi Arabian bombs rain on Yemen, Spain’s national carrier Iberia and Airbus profit by helping Saudi fighter jets refuel
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Returns to Harm
Europe spends vast sums to return migrants and asylum seekers. We track the costs and consequences of this deportation machine
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Under the Scandinavian radar
Thousands of civilian casualties have not stopped Swedish and Danish companies from selling arms to the UAE and Saudi Arabia
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Shadow Population
Why has Europe stopped counting its undocumented population and what does this tell us about the possible failures of hardline migration policies
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Small country, big impact
Tracing Belgian arms: Air power for Saudi Arabia and ‘cop killer’ guns for drug cartels in Mexico
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French arms, and deception
France claims to have one of the world’s strictest arms exports regimes but its weapons go to warmongers and repressive rulers
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German support for Yemen
German-made military equipment is used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their destructive war in Yemen
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Sudan’s secret hit squads
In a new tactic, plain clothes agents drag protesters from the streets and take them to secret prisons where some are tortured
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Italian arms serving dictators
How do stockpiles of Italian weapons end up in repressive regimes? Our investigation traces them to Turkmenistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia
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