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Investigate Europe
@investigate_eu
Cross-border team of investigative journalists with a focus on Europe. Latest investigation: #MineGames
Jan 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Greek firms made 1600 trips from Russia, on ships with 136 million DWT (35% of total) since #Ukraine invasion started.

A month after EU sanctions intro’d on 5 December, 🇬🇷 ships still dominate #fossilfuel exports. But who are behind these often little-known tanker companies? TMS Tankers is controlled by billionaire art donor George Economou. He has a gallery named after him at London’s Tate Modern, and is a supporter of many global #art institutions 🖼

His firm conducted 11 voyages on ships with more than 1 million DWT in the month after 5 December.
Jan 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 December #sanctions targeting Russian fossil fuels ban #EU vessels, insurers & others from facilitating 🇷🇺 crude #oil trades internationally - unless purchased within a #pricecap set by the west. The west has “hamstrung its plan’s chances of success”, some analysts say, pointing to the absence of major buyers China, India and Turkey in the price cap. Another flaw is that the price cap – set at $60 per barrel – is above the average price for Russian crude 📈
Dec 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 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…
Mar 17, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
1/ #Breaking Missiles, aircraft, bombs: EU states exported weapons to Russia until at least '20. 🇷🇺 bought arms from 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 & others after the 2014 embargo. € 346 MLN worth of military equipment; some of it possibly used in #Ukraine right now. A thread. investigate-europe.eu/en/2022/eu-sta… 2/ Each year EU Member States are supposed to share their #ArmsExport numbers & policies with #COARM, a working party of @EUCouncil. According to its little known data, ten EU countries exported arms to #Russia in the years 2015-2020, @investigate_eu can report.