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29 / 11 / 2025

Greece a testing ground for smart surveillance technologies

Europe is rapidly building an AI-ready smart-border regime — bankrolled by the EU, pushed by Germany and tested in Greece. Defense and security firms are among the biggest winners. Much of it is unfolding under the radar, with safeguards for people on the move lagging behind.

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21 / 11 / 2025

How floods are reshaping disaster insurance in the Mediterranean

Governments in Italy and Greece are leaning on private insurance to absorb the mounting cost of extreme weather — a shift that could redefine how Europe pays for the consequences of climate change.

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12 / 11 / 2025

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.

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07 / 11 / 2025

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.

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05 / 11 / 2025

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.

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24 / 10 / 2025

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.

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15 / 10 / 2025

A Silent Postpartum Crisis: How Europe Is Failing Mothers

A gap in perinatal mental health care leaves millions of women struggling alone in the weeks and months after birth. Solomon’s cross-border investigation reveals a continent-wide failure to recognize and treat postpartum mental health conditions.

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08 / 10 / 2025

‘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.

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11 / 09 / 2025

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.

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11 / 09 / 2025

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.

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01 / 08 / 2025

On a quiet Greek island, a wind energy push ignites fierce local backlash 

As Greece races to expand renewable energy, can the island of Kythira be transformed into a wind power hub — with 30 turbines planned in a protected zone — against the will of its residents?

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30 / 07 / 2025

KKR: From Greece’s “red loans” to the occupied territories of Palestine

What do “red loans” in Greece, a music festival in Spain, the global arms trade, and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have in common? They’re all tied to the controversial American investment giant, KKR.

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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.

‘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.

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.
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