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04 / 02 / 2026

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

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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…

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?