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Simon Van Dorpe

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Investigative Journalist at @FollowtheMoney.bsky.social. Covering EU affairs, with a focus on anti-fraud, corruption and industrial policy. DM or email on simon.van.dorpe@ftm.eu


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‼️ Weeks before she was arrested in Qatargate, Eva Kaili set up a lobbying NGO in global technologies. Read the remarkable story of the Brussels Council, which @followthemoney.bsky.social @peterteffer.bsky.social investigated with Le Soir, Reporters United and @knack.bsky.social

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In case you missed it: some truly groundbreaking work from @followthemoney.bsky.social colleagues Bart de Koning, @peterteffer.bsky.social, Ada Homolova and Lise Witteman, who have, with 20+ international media analysed integrity at the #EUParliament The results are sobering

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The Vatican is seriously investigating whether Robert Schuman should be declared a saint after Belgian EU professor Hendrik Vos miraculously survived a car crash when working on a podcast about the EU's founding father

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"Several high-ranking democracies, including Sweden (CPI score: 82), Netherlands (79), Iceland (72) and the United Kingdom (71), have recorded their lowest-ever scores. Notably, the UK has experienced a six-point decrease over the past five years."

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Battery production: Germany first EU country to match US subsidies

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📣 NEW: Almost 140 EU lawmakers have misspent money they received to pay their assistants ‼️ Our investigation raises serious questions about how the European Parliament has been following up on these cases www.ftm.eu/articles/eur...

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🚨 BREAKING: Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa resigned today, after police raided his official residence as part of a corruption investigation.

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