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25 / 05 / 2026

Piraeus deputy mayor takes legal action against Solomon journalists over investigation

The deputy mayor responsible for urban planning and construction in the port city of Piraeus, Dimitris Arapis, has filed a lawsuit, injunction request, and criminal complaint against Solomon and three of its journalists, demanding the removal of a Greek-language investigation into a major real estate development project.

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21 / 05 / 2026

100 Days: The refugees forced to push back other migrants at Europe’s border

They came to Greece seeking asylum. Instead, they say they were coerced by border guards into taking part in violent push backs of other migrants along the Greek-Turkish border. Solomon and Republik joined a months-long investigation by FAIA and WAV documenting what two refugees describe as 100 days of “forced labor on illegal missions.”

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05 / 05 / 2026

‘They protect the law while breaking it’: Inside Europol’s Shadow IT System

Europol is aiming to become a powerful police force with far-reaching surveillance powers. But in an attempt to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, the agency appears to have gone rogue itself, this investigation reveals.

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20 / 02 / 2026

“It was not an accident”: Conflicting accounts of a deadly collision off Chios 

In the first detailed interview with a survivor — and through obtained court and forensic records, testimonies from both survivors and coast guard officers, and interviews with current and former Greek Coast Guard officials — Solomon traces the events of the night a boat carrying migrants collided with a Greek Coast Guard vessel, and the sharply different accounts of what happened at sea.

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18 / 02 / 2026

Trafficked from Nepal, migrant workers prosecuted while Greek employers escape scrutiny

When a 25-year-old man from Nepal reported being forced to work in Greece’s strawberry fields, police made arrests — but did not investigate the employers he identified. An investigation by Solomon, based on case files, court records and testimonies, reveals a pattern in trafficking cases in which migrant workers are criminalized while allegations of labor exploitation remain largely unexamined.

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11 / 02 / 2026

Have you worked – or are planning to work – a seasonal job in Greece’s tourism industry? 

Are you working a seasonal job in Greece? Tell us about your experience, and help us document the realities of labor in the country’s tourism industry.

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04 / 02 / 2026

Ethics watchdog sanctions former chief of Greece’s EU recovery fund following Solomon investigation

One year after Solomon revealed that a senior official overseeing billions in European Union recovery funds had moved to a private company benefiting from the same program, Greece’s ethics watchdog concluded that conflict-of-interest safeguards had been breached.

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23 / 01 / 2026

The documents behind Greece’s disputed sheep pox containment strategy

Documents obtained by Solomon show that since May 2025, the European Commission has repeatedly urged Greece to move forward with vaccination. The government continues to deny this to this day.

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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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Europol AI

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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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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