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30 / 04 / 2025

In Zakynthos, activists confront poachers and the long tradition of impunity

The environmental organization CABS, active on Zakynthos for three years in an effort to protect the endangered turtle dove species, reports that it has been attacked by poachers. It is the latest episode in a series of violent incidents that have been escalating since April 2024.

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16 / 04 / 2025

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.

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09 / 04 / 2025

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?

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31 / 03 / 2025

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.

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25 / 02 / 2025

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.

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Revolving doors

12 / 02 / 2025

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.

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07 / 02 / 2025

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.

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16 / 01 / 2025

Invisible Walls: How AI Tech at Europe’s Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge

With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders, and gaining access to the personal data of people seeking refuge in Europe.

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10 / 01 / 2025

Egypt: The EU’s unexpected ally against migration

From 2024 to 2027, Egypt is slated to receive more EU aid than any other country, under a migration agreement which aims to prevent the arrival of refugees and migrants into the European Union.

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10 / 12 / 2024

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.

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04 / 12 / 2024

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.

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29 / 10 / 2024

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.

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Fish farms on Poros: Why the residents are against it

About 25% of the Saronic island is slated for the operation of fish farming units, which plan on increasing their activity by 670%. Municipal Authority and residents — who disagree with the plan — fear that the character of the island will change forever.

Hawala: The bankers of irregular migration

The absence of legal migratory routes towards Europe has raised the importance of entrusted intermediaries that operate through the ‘hawala’ system and serve both as a bank for smugglers and as an insurer for migrants.

Is Edelman following Predator?

The president and CEO of a Greek company linked to communications giant Edelman attended an event organized on the Greek spyware scandal. That raises questions about whether Edelman is involved in the issue’s communication management on behalf of the Greek government. Solomon reveals documents extending Edelman’s contract with the government.
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