European companies are plundering Senegal’s seas
Podcast Episode · Follow the Money: The Podcast · 24/09/2025 · 19m
Ep.11 of the @ftm.eu podcast: European companies are plundering Senegal's seas. Local fishermen’s nets are coming back empty. The culprit? European fishing companies. With livelihoods disappearing, many young West-Africans see no option but to migrate to Europe. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
24.09.2025 09:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Podcast | Meloni's €70-million migration fiasco
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran her election campaign in 2022, she promised a bold solution to Italy’s migration issues: building offshore migrant centres in Albania. But three years la...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to solve Italy’s migration challenges by building offshore migrant centres in Albania to process asylum seekers. Three years on, the hubs are half-empty, construction costs have ballooned into millions and courts keep stalling progress.
17.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Meloni's €70 million migration fiasco
Podcast Episode · Follow the Money: The Podcast · 17/09/2025 · 24m
In ep.10 of the @ftm.eu podcast, journalist James Imam tells us all about Meloni's €70M migration fiasco: alleged human rights abuses, half-empty hubs, ballooning costs and legal chaos.
"Italians are paying for prisons in a foreign country that are leading to great suffering"
17.09.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Von der Leyen’s secret texts with Pfizer
Podcast Episode · Follow the Money: The Podcast · 10/09/2025 · 24m
In 2021, von der Leyen texted Pfizer’s CEO ahead of a multi-billion € vaccine deal. When @alexfanta.bsky.social
asked to see the texts, the Commission refused. In episode #9 of the @ftm.eu podcast, we unpack #Pfizergate with @lise-witteman.bsky.social
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11.09.2025 05:56 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Daniel Křetínský is a Czech billionaire businessman who built his fortune on coal – all the while receiving hundreds of millions of euros for green subsidies from the EU. In our latest podcast episode, journalists Hazel Sheffield and Sofia Cherici unpick his vast empire: www.ftm.nl/s/50a39
08.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Record number of corporate lawsuits target climate action in controversial tribunal
Behind closed doors in Washington, D.C., fossil fuel and mining companies are suing governments over lost profits. Follow the Money has analysed how a system built to protect foreign investors poses a...
2025 is a record-breaking year for claims filed by fossil fuel and mining firms against democratic policies – marking a grim milestone in a surge of polluting industries seeking compensation for lost profits via a secretive tribunal.
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Europe’s most powerful political party has picked an unexpected enemy: NGOs. After it claimed Brussels was secretly bankrolling green lobbyists, journalists Lise Witteman and Hans Wetzels found a very different story. Watch the full episode here: www.ftm.nl/s/f37b9
27.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Follow the Money EU
How Europe’s largest party made an enemy out of NGOs
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26.08.2025 08:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast | How Europe’s largest party made an enemy out of NGOs
Europe’s most powerful political party has picked an unexpected enemy: NGOs. After it claimed Brussels was secretly bankrolling green lobbyists, Follow the Money journalists Lise Witteman and Hans Wet...
🎙️ Episode #7 of the @ftm.eu podcast:
After the @eppgroup.bsky.social claimed Brussels was secretly funding green lobbyists, @lise-witteman.bsky.social & Hans Wetzels uncovered a very different story.
The EPP is scapegoating NGOs as it backpedals on the Green Deal.
🔗 www.ftm.eu/articles/pod...
26.08.2025 06:36 — 👍 23 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
When French distributors faced a crop shortage, they used cheap Spanish bulk wine and falsely labeled it as Vin de France. Watch our latest podcast episode to find out how this "solution” quickly became one of the biggest wine frauds in recent years: www.ftm.eu/articles/pod...
21.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Forever chemicals are everywhere, even in our drinking water. And they're not going anywhere.
In this episode of FTM The Podcast, hosts Emma du Chatinier and Alexander Fanta discuss the risks of these chemicals with physicist Thomas Goorden.
Watch the full episode here: lnkd.in/dyXYyACc
18.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The corporate campaign to weaken Europe’s fight against forever chemicals
Podcast Episode · Follow the Money: The Podcast · 12/08/2025 · 25m
In episode #5 of the @ftm.eu podcast, investigative journalist Thomas Goorden reveals how the EU — swayed by industry lobbying — is disregarding alarming levels of “forever chemicals” in our food and drinking water:
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12.08.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
How a vulture capitalist quietly took over Europe’s festival scene
Follow the Money: The Podcast · Episode
Episode #4 of the @ftm.eu Podcast with @henkwillem.bsky.social and @salsabilfayed.bsky.social: How a vulture capitalist that profits from stolen Palestinian land got a hold of Europe's festivals, @boilerroom.tv, and many more cultural spaces. open.spotify.com/episode/5Vpb...
05.08.2025 06:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Western oil tankers that fund Putin's war
Follow the Money: The Podcast · Episode
Episode #3 of the Follow the Money podcast is out now! @birteschohaus.bsky.social tells us how Western shipowners have made billions by selling rusty oil tankers to Russia’s shadow fleet — helping Putin dodge sanctions and fund his war in Ukraine.
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30.07.2025 08:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Follow the Money EU
Podcast | Inside the Huawei corruption scandal that rocked Brussels
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22.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast | Shein’s toxic business model
Millions of people across Europe buy their clothes on the fast fashion app Shein. But the Chinese company’s aggressive tactics for recruiting users have attracted the attention of European regulators....
Who really pulls the strings in Europe? In our brand new podcast we uncover the hidden players shaping the continent. In the first episode, out now, we dive into the toxic tactics of fast fashion giant Shein. Reporter Yara van Heugten reveals how the Chinese app may be losing its shine.
15.07.2025 06:53 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Veiligheid & Defensie | Over wat oorlog en hybride oorlogsvoering op het Europese continent voor Nederland betekent – Brusselse Nieuwe
Europese #defensie staat op een kruispunt. 800 miljard investeringen, steun voor Oekraïne en groeiende zorgen over de VS.
In mijn nieuwsbrief Defensie & #Veiligheid duik ik in de #EU defensieplannen en wat ze voor Nederland betekenen. Abonneren kan hier 👇
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14.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Nieuw corruptieschandaal Europees Parlement: invallen bij lobbyisten van Huawei
In een grootschalig corruptieonderzoek naar het Chinese Huawei deed de Belgische politie donderdagochtend invallen in woningen van lobbyisten van het techbedrijf. Ze worden onder meer verdacht van het...
BREAKING: De Belgische politie viel vanochtend binnen bij woningen van Huawei-lobbyisten in een grootschalig corruptieonderzoek. Zij zouden Europarlementariërs hebben omgekocht om Huawei’s belangen te behartigen. In totaal werden 21 adressen doorzocht. #HuaweiGate
13.03.2025 08:31 — 👍 56 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2
Hoe Huawei’s lobby voor 5G ontspoorde
Ooit was de Chinese telecomgigant Huawei verzekerd van een plek in Europese telefoonnetwerken en broekzakken. Maar het succes verbleekte toen Europa zich zorgen ging maken over mogelijke spionage. In ...
Luxe reizen, cadeaus en mogelijk contant geld in ruil voor publieke steun voor Huawei. Belgische autoriteiten verdenken de lobbyisten van het omkopen van Europarlementariërs. FTM onthult hoe Huawei via slimme connecties en gerichte lobbycampagnes in Europa invloed vergaarde. #HuaweiGate
13.03.2025 09:31 — 👍 35 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3
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