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🧵 Investigate Europe in 2022: 5 investigations, 20+ media partners, over 100 stories:

✈️ The EU military complex
⚗️ Pesticides and a #biodiversity crisis
🚢 EU ships & Russian oil
🛢️ Inside Europe's little-known #oil giant
🏠 Real estate tax privileges
investigate-europe.eu/en/

Europe is on the way to become a military power, but so far mostly to the benefit of arms producers and with little democratic control.

Our first investigation of 2022 explored the 🇪🇺 #military complex, and included revelations of arms sales to #Russia: investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/milita…

Europe is stuck in a toxic relationship.

Our June investigation laid bare Europe's deep-rooted problem with #pesticides and how it is leading to a growing #biodiversity crisis across the continent:
investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/pestic…

European ships fuel Russia’s war economy.

In September we revealed how a vast network of European ships - with some high-profile owners - continued to export fossil fuels from #Russia 🇷🇺 following the invasion of Ukraine.

#FuellingWar w/ @reporters_gr:
investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/fuelli…

Inside Europe's little-known oil giant.

In November we exposed environmental abuses connected to Franco-British oil and gas firm #Perenco as well as links to politics, tax havens and offshore money.

#PerencoFiles in collaboration w/ @disclose: investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/perenc…

How 🇪🇺 governments lure capital into real estate and feed the housing crisis.

Our new #Untaxed series details the role Europe’s governments play in inflating housing prices with huge tax privileges for #realestate investors:
investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/untaxe…