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Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program Europol’s growing appetite for data and artificial intelligence is transforming European policing, largely out of public view, and without clear oversight.
12.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Greece rejected the EU’s sheeppox vaccine, opting for mass slaughter. The virus is spreading. Internal documents obtained by Solomon reveal the EU urged Greece to launch a vaccination campaign against sheeppox. Athens refused — and now the country faces one of its worst livestock crises in decades.
07.11.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Stranded between borders: Europe’s broken system for reuniting refugee families Across Europe, unaccompanied minors who fled war and persecution wait to reunite with relatives a border or two away. What should take months can stretch into years. Solomon’s investigation traces the maze of bureaucracy and policy decisions keeping families apart.
05.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every minute, a building in Europe is demolished. The EU has no record of it. Across the European Union, buildings are disappearing at an astonishing rate — roughly one every minute, according to independent researchers. Yet the bloc has no official record of what is being lost, even as it pledges to curb demolitions and promote renovation.
24.10.2025 06:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Solomon awarded the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for the second time Solomon’s investigation into Russia’s shadow fleet—which uncovered the secret networks allowing Moscow to evade oil trade sanctions—has been awarded this year’s Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism by the European Parliament.
22.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Migrants in their own land’: climate displacement at Europe’s external borders When record-breaking floods hit central Greece in 2023, entire villages were uprooted. Some of those left houseless remain in the refugee camp where they were relocated — a stark glimpse of Europe’s new reality, where climate disasters are displacing citizens alongside migrants.
08.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live | How to debunk far-right talking points Tuesday 30 September 2025 - 13:30 CEST.
29.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE: “Following orders” — The defense of the Pylos coast guard officers The Hellenic Coast Guard has faced unprecedented scrutiny since June 2023, when a fishing trawler overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off the coast of Pylos, killing more than 600 people. Thirteen Coast Guard officers--the captain and crew of patrol vessel PPLS-920, the only ship on the scene when the boat went down--now face criminal charges. In an exclusive interview with Solomon, their lawyer presented the officers’ defense. Their version of events is juxtaposed against the findings of the Greek Ombudsman, whose confidential report—obtained by Solomon—challenges several of their claims and notes shortcomings in Coast Guard leadership on the night of June 14, 2023.
11.09.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Lawyer defends Coast Guard officers accused in deadly Pylos shipwreck The lawyer representing the Hellenic Coast Guard officers facing criminal charges over the deadly Pylos shipwreck speaks exclusively to Solomon.
11.09.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Solomon Media Lab: How To Investigate Fish Farms in Greece Solomon invites journalists to a two-day workshop on fish farming in Greece, taking place on September 18 in Athens and September 19 on the island of Poros.
03.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with Europol Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding refugees, into a widening criminal dragnet through large-scale ‘covert interrogations’.
07.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Smiles Don’t Lie” – Israeli Propaganda Targets Greece, EU Countries As public attention in Greece and across Europe turns to the March to Gaza, Israel has launched a targeted campaign aimed at regional audiences. Through sponsored YouTube ads promoting its “humanitarian aid” efforts, the Israeli government is rapidly boosting video viewership across the region.
13.06.2025 10:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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He Escaped Death, But Dreams of Returning to Gaza Yousef fled Gaza in 2024, still a minor. Now 19, he’s in Cairo — caught between loss and survival, still hoping to return home one day.
06.06.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“We don’t feel comfortable in our own homes” – Your answers to Solomon’s questionnaire We asked how you deal with the cold in winter and the difficulty of keeping your homes warm. From using the oven as a heat source, to staying confined to a single room, these are the experiences that 546 Solomon readers shared with us.
07.05.2025 07:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How A Shady US AI Company Dodged Fines and Defied Regulators Across Europe Clearview AI’s saga in Europe underscores the clash between international tech firms and supposedly robust EU privacy laws.
16.04.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poisoned Chalice: Is Frontex Director’s Clean-Up Operation Doomed to Failure? Dutch former gendarmerie commander Hans Leijtens took the reins of Frontex with a vow to renew the EU border agency’s commitment to the rights of migrants. With Europe’s leaders taking a hard line on migration, is he fighting a losing battle?
09.04.2025 06:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unaccompanied Children Sleep on the Floor in Shifts in Greece’s ‘Model Camps’. The EU Is Aware. Internal EU documents obtained through freedom of information requests and visual evidence from rights organizations on the ground, reveal systemic neglect of hundreds of unaccompanied children trapped in dire conditions in Greek refugee camps.
31.03.2025 05:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heat or eat: The coldest homes in Europe are in western Greece One in ten people in Europe are cold in their homes in winter. In Greece, the percentage is double: two in ten. Across Europe, western Greece ranks as the region with the coldest homes.
25.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Solomon is Hiring a Fundraiser Do you want to be part of an independent journalism team that serves the public interest and holds power to account? Solomon is hiring a fundraiser.
13.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Revolving Doors: How top Greek officials became executives in companies they once oversaw The former Minister of Maritime Affairs becomes CEO of the country's largest shipyard. The government’s Director of the National Recovery & Resilience Fund becomes an executive at a company that had received millions from the Fund. Solomon investigates conflict of interest issues regarding executives who transfer from the public to the private sector.
12.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shadow Fleet Secrets: How Greek tankers were used to transport Russian oil To create the shadow fleet that illegally transported Russian oil, Putin relied on aging tankers whose prices suddenly skyrocketed − among them were many former Greek-owned ships.
07.02.2025 07:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Abu Sultan’s Enterprise: The Smuggling Ring Behind the Pylos Shipwreck The second part of the joint investigation by Solomon, ARIJ, El País, TAZ, and The New Humanitarian provides, in unprecedented detail, an account of the structure and operation of the north African smuggling ring behind the Pylos shipwreck.
10.12.2024 11:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pylos Shipwreck: Greece knew the real smugglers Solomon's investigation–conducted in collaboration with El País, Die Tageszeitung, ARIJ, and The New Humanitarian–reveals that Egypt informed the Greek authorities that the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck were not members of the smuggling network. Yet, the men stayed behind bars for a year.
04.12.2024 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Who controls the media in Greece: 12+1 conclusions from Solomon’s investigation Solomon's investigation, "Who owns the media?" has documented, for the first time, on an interactive platform, the business activities and interests of the oligarchs behind Greece’s major media groups.
29.10.2024 10:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Solomon to unveil the findings of new investigation “Who owns the media” in a public event Solomon presents findings from new investigation, examining for the first time the ownership structure of major media groups in Greece.
09.09.2024 09:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
On Edge: Europe’s Farmers at a Mental Health Breaking Point A new cross-border investigation in Greece, Spain, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland documents how climate change, combined with European and national policies, has pushed farmers in Europe's 'periphery' to a breaking point.
28.08.2024 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An HIV-positive patient hospitalized at Εvaggelismos under appalling conditions At Greece’s largest hospital, an HIV-positive patient, diagnosed with active tuberculosis, is hospitalized under health conditions which put his life in danger.
26.07.2024 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The story of a Golden Visa real estate scam A Chinese couple bought an apartment in Kallithea. They ended up dealing with a controversial NGO and a company that has been accused of fraud.
09.07.2024 08:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tracing the Path of Greece’s Plastic Waste In collaboration with Greenpeace Greece and Basel Action Network, we put trackers on plastic waste from recycle bins and followed their path. Some turned up in landfills, while some was exported to the Balkans. In the end, many of the myths surrounding recycling were dispelled.
17.06.2024 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Testimony of Hellenic Coast Guard captain exonerates the “Pylos nine” Nine Egyptian nationals, survivors of the deadly Pylos shipwreck, accused of smuggling and causing the vessel to sink, were found not guilty. Below is the statement given by the captain of PPLS-920, the only Coast Guard vessel present during the sinking of the Adriana in June 2023.
21.05.2024 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0