Corruption
Paulo Pena: Europe’s governments inflate housing prices with huge tax privileges for real estate
Part of an investigation by Investigate Europe into how house price inflation is government sponsored. Read the article HERE.
Investigate Europe
Climate Crisis
Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans
A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here
Deregulation
Investigate Europe: Crina Boros – Romanian Trucker, Polish Wage, Dutch Workplace
How salaries migrate across the EU in the road haulage business Read here
EU politics
Investigate Europe: How a US firm pushed for EU €2.1trn pension fund
This is only a brief section of an extensive and excellent investigative report concerning the US financial services corporate giant BlackRock by Investigate Europe. Unfortunately it has never been translated into English. Here you will […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe: Legislation in the „Black Box“ of the EU Council – where secrecy feeds mistrust
Dutch parliamentarians recently labelled the European Council a “black box”. Through its informal bodies, such as the Eurogroup of finance ministers of the 19 eurozone countries, national parliaments become sidelined and are continually confronted with […]
Corruption
Investigate Europe: The overlooked past of the ‘next PM of Greece’
After being crushed ba the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF and the sellout by Syriza, Greece appears to be returning to its oligarchic legacy. That is not reform, that is reactionary politics. […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe: Where have all the mothers gone?
The Country of Silent Tears: Economic migrant families from Romania have paid for decent earnings with anxiety and tears of the nation’s children. Investigate Europe is made up of nine experienced journalists from eight European […]