Dozens of military personnel from the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and other countries can be tracked down to the meter via Polarsteps, a popular travel app. Even when they didn’t use th...

Leaked financial reports show how Shell moved profits through tax havens such as the Bahamas and Switzerland – potentially depriving developing nations of hundreds of millions of euros. While some of ...

Na het WK in Qatar kende de FIFA geld toe aan Russische voetbalclubs. De internationale voetbalfederatie riskeert hiermee strafvervolging voor het overtreden van Europese, Zwitserse en Amerikaanse san...

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As an editor at Follow the Money for seven years, Karin Spaink transformed even the driest articles into “sparkling champagne” and played an important role in the early years of FTM’s international ed...

Heineken holds stakes in two Russian companies. The Dutch beverage giant earlier said it had completely left Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

International beer giant Heineken discreetly invested in an Iranian soft drinks company and maintained a presence in the Islamic Republic for more than seven years, Follow the Money can reveal. The br...

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi uncovered explosive evidence that the country’s foreign minister had offered favours to the Kremlin. On the eve of hotly contested elections, the government respond...

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

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More than four years after Russia invaded Ukraine, European clubs continue to carry out multi-million-euro transfers with Russian teams. The deals offer Russian sides a vital financial lifeline – and ...

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...

U.S. President Donald Trump imposed eye-watering tariffs on Lesotho and cut aid last year, plunging the small African nation into turmoil. Brussels and Beijing are now looking at ways to expand their ...

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Greenpeace spande de zaak aan, namens de inwoners van Bonaire. De rechter bepaalde dat de staat de inwoners van Bonaire, in het Caribische deel van Nederland, anders heeft behandeld dan de inwoners van Europese Nederland – en daarmee het verbod op discriminatie heeft geschonden.

To understand the balance of power in the world, geopolitics is not enough. Geoeconomics matters more than ever. But what exactly is it? This comic strip by Follow the Money breaks it down for you.

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Backed by millions in EU funding, clean tech company InnoEnergy claims it has trained more than 100,000 people to work in Europe’s battery industry. But some of its courses can be completed in minutes...

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A corruption probe into a strategically important Bulgarian gas project – designed to loosen Europe’s dependence on Russian energy and long opposed by Moscow – has descended into chaos. A kompromat ca...

The Netherlands may not be known as a tax haven – but its rules make it easy for big multinationals to avoid paying taxes in the European country.

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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-...

Western governments have sanctioned 636 shadow fleet tankers that transport Russian oil and fuel the Kremlin’s war chest. Yet these measures have done little to stop the illicit trade, an investigatio...

Suspicious vessels linked to Russia – including its shadow fleet – are increasingly going dark, a joint investigation involving Follow the Money has found. Ships cannot be located due to disruptions t...

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...

Met een miljard aan publiek geld probeert het NAVO Innovatiefonds defensie-tech te stimuleren. Maar het fonds gaat gebukt onder interne chaos en hoge overhead. Toch werd prins Constantijn onlangs stil...

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Football clubs are forced to pay outstanding transfer fees even if doing so runs the risk of violating banking restrictions and sanctions against Russia.

Europese voetbalclubs moeten van de FIFA openstaande transfersommen betalen aan Russische clubs, ondanks sancties tegen Rusland. Clubs als Atalanta Bergamo, West Ham United, FC Basel en Udinese lopen ...

European football clubs must pay outstanding transfer fees to Russian teams despite sanctions, says the sport's governing body FIFA. If the likes of West Ham United, FC Basel and Atalanta do not compl...

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Of het nu om een vrijwilligersbaantje of een melkveehouderij gaat, Kamerleden zijn verplicht om hun nevenactiviteiten door te geven. Follow the Money onderzocht de leden van de nieuwe Tweede Kamer en ...