Who are the Russian spies captured in the Baltic countries over the few past years, how are they recruited and in which other ways is Russia pursuing its agenda in Europe? These were some of the questions that a five-country team of investigative journalists led by the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism (Re:Baltica) sought to […]

This September, a cross-border team of investigative journalists exposed massive fraud in European Union-funded projects in Bulgaria and Romania in what became known as the #GPGate scandal. The revelations shed light on alleged extensive corruption in the construction sector, but they also underscored the difficult press freedom situation in Bulgaria. The safety of the investigative […]

The decision by the Italian government to cut public funds for news organizations as part of the country’s 2019 budget bill has received sustained criticism from journalist and press freedom groups in Italy, who argue that the move threatens the existence of numerous news organizations, in particular those operating at the local level, silencing important […]

Poland ends 2018 with worrying developments in the climate towards journalists. As the country enters election season, leading up to parliamentary elections in autumn 2019, two separate incidents point to rising pressure on the press. The first incident relates to independent media outlets’ coverage of the scandal at the country’s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) in […]