‼️ 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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"The problem is not only that OLAF cannot bite – it doesn’t bark either." Great piece by @simonvandorpe.bsky.social for @followthemoney.bsky.social
Astonishing how little has changed since I came to similar conclusions 20 years ago
www.stern.de/politik/ausl...
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Terwijl OLAF en het Europees Openbaar Ministerie moeten samenwerken, zijn ze verwikkeld in een machtsstrijd, schrijft @simonvandorpe.bsky.social
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📢 The EU Commission has grossly underestimated how much of its money has been misused over the years. The EU Prosecutor says ‘more than 90 percent of suspected fraud’ is not on the Commission’s radar. Check our latest investigation out today @followthemoney.bsky.social www.ftm.eu/articles/pro...
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