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Cross-border journalism cooperative holding the powerful to account in Europe Our investigations deal with key issues related to major changes in Europe.
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Coming from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Great Britain, we are nine experienced reporters.

30/09/2025

⚠️ Scam Europe – A new cross-border investigation

Europeans lost €4 billion to online investment scams last year — and with AI ads, deepfakes, and fake trading platforms, fraudsters are evolving faster than regulators.

Investigate Europe has teamed up with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Birn) and media partners across Europe to launch Scam Europe, a series uncovering how these crimes spread and who is behind them.

Our first findings reveal a €250 million fraud network in Belgrade that targeted 70,000 victims across Europe, Canada & Australia, using fake ads, cloned websites, and bogus partnerships to appear legitimate. Victims lost everything from small savings to seven-digit sums, while law enforcement struggles to keep up.

This is just the first part of Scam Europe — over the coming weeks, we’ll reveal how fraudsters exploit technology, how different countries are responding, and the human stories behind the scams.

🔎 Read part one of the series here: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/behind-the-scam-how-an-alleged-criminal-network-set-a-trap-for-thousands-of-europeans-to-fall-for-fake-investments-and-raked-in-millions

27/09/2025

🏆 Great news! We’ve been awarded the IJ4EU Impact Award by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom for our investigation, Deadly Prices.

The impact of this investigation exceeded our expectations, made possible by eight months of dedicated work by colleagues across Europe. Deadly Prices uncovered Europe’s hidden medicine pricing system, exposing a world of opaque deals and unequal access. The wider investigation unravelled the secretive practices of Europe's pharmaceutical industry, and exposed the real-world consequences of Big Pharma’s decisions on patients and communities.

The investigation underlined what our journalism is really about: producing investigations that resonate throughout Europe and expose the systems and structures that shape the continent today.

Deadly prices was published with media partners across Europe including NDR, WDR, , , , and others.

Congratulations to all the other nominees and winners – what a great achievement to share with you all. Many thanks to the organisers for making it possible ,

📖 Read the full investigation here: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/themes/investigations/deadly-prices-europe-big-pharma-medicines

25/09/2025

Some members of the Investigate Europe team will be in Athens from September 25–27 for UNCOVERED 2025 and the iMEdD International Journalism Forum!

Back for its fifth year, UNCOVERED is joining iMEdD’s annual gathering of journalists for three days of discussions on press freedom, AI, data journalism, climate reporting, and more.

We’re thrilled to be part of such an exciting program and can’t wait to connect with journalists from across Europe and internationally. Will you be there too? 🙋🏽‍♀️ Come say hi — we’d love to exchange ideas and talk about future collaborations!

23/09/2025

For decades, Europe’s trans community has been pushed to undergo medical sterilisation to have their gender legally recognised.

From 1972 to this June of this year, at least six EU countries, including Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, explicitly required surgeries causing infertility as a prerequisite to update ID cards and official documents.

Investigate Europe has found data confirming over 11,000 people were subjected to these laws, yet the actual number could be much higher. Even in countries without explicit requirements, extensive gender reassignment surgery was effectively mandatory to obtain an accurate legal identity.

These procedures often meant a gonadectomy—removing one’s te**es or ovaries. While some trans people choose these surgeries as part of their transition, many do not. These laws violated people’s freedom to make choices about their own bodies and identities.

This investigation was published with our media partners across Europe: .tv .die_tageszeitung

👉 To read the full story, follow the link in our bi

10/09/2025

At least 11,000 trans people in Europe had to show they had undergone invasive bodily interventions that left them infertile in order to obtain legal gender recognition.

This first cross-border estimate is based on previously unreported official figures compiled with partners across Europe. The true toll could be even higher.

For decades, people in a number of EU countries had to show they were unable to procreate if they wanted to change their gender entry in state records.

“Sterility requirements have forced trans people to choose between two of their own human rights – the right to bodily integrity or freedom from unwanted medical intervention and the right to privacy or recognition before the law,” says Cianán Russell (they/them) of ILGA-Europe.

While many European countries have now abolished these laws, the Netherlands and Sweden have offered compensation after years of campaigning by activists. Czechia only changed its rules in June this year.

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/an--open-wound-europes-trans-community-reckons-with-decades-sterilisation-requirements

10/09/2025

At least 11,000 trans people in Europe had to show they had undergone invasive bodily interventions that left them infertile in order to obtain legal gender recognition.

This first cross-border estimate is based on previously unreported official figures compiled with partners across Europe. The true toll could be even higher.

For decades, people in a number of EU countries had to show they were unable to procreate if they wanted to change their gender entry in state records.

“Sterility requirements have forced trans people to choose between two of their own human rights – the right to bodily integrity or freedom from unwanted medical intervention and the right to privacy or recognition before the law,” says Cianán Russell (they/them) of .

While many European countries have now abolished these laws, the Netherlands and Sweden have offered compensation after years of campaigning by activists. Czechia only changed its rules in June this year.

📖 Read the full investigation via the link in bio.

26/08/2025

Our cross-border journalism helps you connect the dots on Europe. We’re a team of journalists, editors and producers working across 11 countries. Together, we investigate the forces shaping our continent with deeply researched investigations.

Our newsletter brings you:

🔺 New investigations, straight to your inbox
🔺 Context that cuts through the noise
🔺 Insights from our reporters
🔺 The real-world impact of our work

Europe is complex, but understanding it shouldn’t be.

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www.investigate-europe.eu/newsletter

17/07/2025

🚨 Just published: Investigate Europe’s 2024 Annual Report 🚨

From exposing corporate influence to uncovering systemic failures, our cross-border investigations in 2024 reflect our commitment to journalism that serves the public.

Swipe through to discover the stories we investigated, the impact we had, and the collaborations that made it all possible.

💛 Thank you to our readers, donors, and partners. Your support keeps us going.

🔗 https://content.investigateeurope.com/uploads/IE-Report%202024-07.pdf

11/06/2025

An investigation by Investigate Europe and Reporters United, published jointly with media partners across Europe, shows that an Israeli state defence company is benefiting from EU defence projects.

The EU has awarded millions to a European subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a company owned by the Israeli state and involved in the Gaza conflict.

Greece’s Intracom Defense, acquired by IAI, is part of 15 European Defence Fund (EDF) projects, seven launched after the Gaza war began. It has received at least €15 million.

Intracom Defense coordinates Actus, a four-year, €59 million drone programme with France’s Safran and 21 other European entities, co-funded by the Commission and seven EU governments.

Under Article 9 of the EDF Regulation, foreign-owned firms can receive EU defence funding if they are based in Europe and provide government-approved guarantees.

Intracom Defense said it complies with all laws and that it is a Greek company. IAI did not respond to requests for comment.

📍 https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/european-defence-fund-millions-benefiting-israeli-state-owned-drone-manufacturer

09/06/2025

We are proud to hold the official title of European Press Prize Laureates for our investigation, Deadly prices, in which we analysed inequality in access to medicines in Europe.

This award, presented by a prestigious jury of media experts, recognises the strength of cross-border investigative journalism. Although we were not the final winners, we’re honoured that our work was nominated alongside Europe’s best investigative projects by a distinguished jury of media experts.

Below is some of the jury’s feedback on our investigation.

A huge thank you to all our media partners who made this collaboration possible and helped the story reach readers across the continent.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Il Fatto Quotidiano infoLibre
EUobserver ARTE Gazeta Wyborcza, investigace.cz, Partizán
Investigatívne centrum Jána Kuciaka, Ostro DER STANDARD,
Monitor/ARD/tagesschau, Deutschlandfunk, Reporters United EfSyn TheJournal.ie openDemocracy, British Medical Journal, Trouw Yle, Delfi 15min, Eesti Ekspress, Klassenkampen Tages-Anzeiger

💊 Read Deadly prices here: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/themes/investigations/deadly-prices-europe-big-pharma-medicines

05/06/2025

🚨 Our investigation into unlicensed gambling is being targeted.

In the wake of publishing our cross-border investigation into Europe’s gambling industry, , we’ve been targeted by a surge of bogus copyright complaints on Google, including from accounts impersonating our team.

More than 50 frivolous complaints have been filed in what appears to be a coordinated attempt to silence our journalism.

In March, Investigate Europe and partners revealed how gambling firm Soft2Bet is linked to over 100 blacklisted online casinos. These sites attract millions of visits each month, despite lawsuits, fines, and bankruptcies in offshore jurisdictions.

Soft2Bet denied wrongdoing at the time, but has not responded to our recent inquiries.

While our article remains online, versions published by our partners in Estonia, Poland, Greece, and Malta were temporarily delisted by Google.

Experts warn that misuse of takedown tools represents a serious threat to press freedom and shows how tech firms have failed to meaningfully address the problem.

Policymakers in the EU and UK are now weighing reforms to protect journalism from this kind of abuse.

📍 https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/shady-bets-google-copyright-claims-censor-investigate-europe-gambling-investigation-soft2bet

19/05/2025

🚨 Investigate Europe at Dataharvest 2025

This week in Mechelen, our team will be part of the programme.

We’ll share insights from our latest investigations into AI and surveillance, sanctions evasion, Big Pharma, the arms industry — and discuss the challenges and rewards of cross-border journalism across Europe.

Here’s where to find us:

Friday, May 23

⏰ 1:15pm – Investigations coordinator: one title, multiple realities
⏰ 3:00pm – Keep calm and coordinate
⏰ 4:45pm – Watching the watchers: investigating AI & surveillance
⏰ 4:45pm – Risk & rewards: sanctions evasion in customs data
⏰ 4:45pm – From journalist to manager

Saturday, May 24

⏰ 9:30am – Investigating the EU
⏰ 10:45am & 12:30pm – Dataharvest Cafés: chat with us
⏰ 1:45pm – Researching the arms industry
⏰ 3:30 pm –Investigating Big Pharma
⏰ 3:30 pm –Arms & defence industry (roundtable)

We look forward to connecting with fellow journalists, researchers, and readers.

Let’s talk collaborations!

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