Mark Scott and Richard Woods highlight Europe’s reliance on US funding for its Democracy Stack and call for stronger EU investment in digital sovereignty.

Fifteen years ago, Átlátszó began as a largely unfunded experiment: a nonprofit investigative newsroom designed to protect journalists from the political and business pressures constraining Hungary’s media.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Over the course of 30 years, the Austrian entrepreneur Paul Rübig has built up a network that reaches deep into the European bureaucracy. In part benefiting from a shift to the right in the political ...

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European prosecutors are investigating InnoEnergy, an EU-funded sustainable tech company. The case was brought by an entrepreneur who had received support from the company, but later suspected it was ...

Bewakers van de Russische schaduwvloot zijn in de val getrapt van een internationaal undercoveronderzoek waaraan De Tijd en VRT NWS meewerkten. Tijdens zogezegde sollicitatiegesprekken vertellen ze on...

German entrepreneur Christian Angermayer has bet big on the psychedelics movement, backed the pro-doping Enhanced Games and built a contact book stretching from the Bundestag to the Trump family. Yet ...

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After Manfred Weber took over as president, the European People’s Party hired two advisors with deep connections to Greece's ruling party, racking up over half a million euros in costs for the EU part...

In 'Follow the Money interviewt' spreken journalisten Annette van Soest en Harm Ede Botje met sleutelfiguren uit verschillende FTM-dossiers. Van toezichthouders en wetenschappers tot politici en juris...

As Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday, reports about Russia interfering in the elections are gaining urgency – and so does a European Commission probe into whether social media platforms are doing e...

Friends with Elon Musk and on top of one of Europe's most powerful media empires. Meet German billionaire Mathias Döpfner, CEO of publishing giant Axel Springer. He has managed to expand his influence...

Europe will have to take on global threats alone if it doesn’t support America in Iran.

Extra bezuiniging: Meer dan 150.000 mensen leven onnodig onder het bestaansminimum doordat zij niet de bijstandsuitkering krijgen waar ze recht op hebben. Het kabinet schrapt nu het voornemen om deze ...

De uitzendbranche hield zich niet aan de uitspraak van een Europese rechter dat uitzendkrachten eenzelfde vergoeding moeten krijgen als vaste krachten, hoewel het ministerie van Sociale Zaken de secto...

Uitzendkrachten zijn in Nederland veertien jaar lang structureel onderbetaald. Rechterlijke uitspraken impliceren dat Nederland sinds 2011 afweek van Europese regels die dicteren…

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The hotline between Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov provided Russia with strategic information on critical EU issues.

A potential mass lawsuit in the Netherlands is seeking back pay for temporary workers who were allegedly underpaid in breach of EU legislation. More than a million people could be eligible, and many o...

Tot dit jaar kregen uitzendkrachten structureel minder betaald dan ‘gewone’ werknemers. Uit rechterlijke uitspraken blijkt dat dit indruist tegen Europese regels die Nederland al ruim veertien jaar mo...

Fulvio Martusciello, an Italian member of the European Parliament (MEP), denies taking bribes in the Huawei cash-for-influence scandal, insisting that thousands of euros transferred to his account wer...

European investors are increasingly snapping up shares of tech giant Palantir, seemingly brushing aside mounting concerns and ongoing controversies surrounding the company.

Het samenvoegen van gemeenten levert over het algemeen geen besparing of extra efficiëntie op. Wel leidt het soms tot hommeles in de lokale politiek. Zoals in de drie jaar oude fusiegemeente Voorne aa...

Europe must break away from US “colonisation”, argues the Brussels-based journalist Dave Keating. In an impassioned new book, Keating says it’s not just military dependence that runs against Europe’s ...

Kim van Keken duidt in haar column iedere week op haar eigen, uitgesproken en onafhankelijke wijze de actuele ontwikkelingen binnen de journalistiek en media, valt machtsstructuren aan en daagt ons jo...

The EU’s flagship corporate sustainability law has been massively scaled back following industry pushback. Leaked documents shared with Follow the Money reveal how a secretive U.S. lobby piled pressur...

The Epstein files show not only how he abused women and girls while mixing with powerful people, but also how he tried to influence politics in Europe.

Ik lees de zoveelste column over wat Europa’s antwoord moet zijn op Trumps autoritaire invloeden en ik denk: genoeg geluld! Om te beginnen wat harde waarheden. Europa als baken van democratie en re...

Genotzucht: Nederlanders zijn extreem bang om hun welvaart te verliezen, maar in plaats van in actie te komen, „genieten ze liever van hun luxe bestaan”, zegt opiniepeiler Peter Kanne. „Probeer in je ...

The messaging service’s battle with European regulators could force it to hire thousands of content moderators to tackle illegal content. Documents obtained by Follow the Money show how Telegram is tr...

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The Dutch government is spending billions of euros to buy out livestock farmers and cut nitrogen emissions. The owner of the Netherlands’ biggest pigsty, who once received subsidies to build his mega-...

Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...