Three cross-border investigations won the 2025 IJ4EU Impact Awards, presented during a ceremony hosted by the iMEdD International Journalism Forum in Athens.
In alphabetical order, the winning investigations were:
- Deadly Prices, by Investigate Europe and partners NDR, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reporters United and Eesti Ekspress, which calculated the cost of critical drugs across nine EU countries, highlighting how pharmaceutical companies exploit opaque pricing and intellectual property rules.
- The Gaza Project, a consortium of 50 reporters from 13 newsrooms led by Forbidden Stories, which documented patterns of attacks on journalists in Gaza and the West Bank.
- Desert Dumps by Lighthouse Reports, Enass, Inkyfada, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El País, IrpiMedia and Tagesschau, which detailed how EU funds, vehicles and intelligence underpin mass expulsions of migrants into desert areas.
The jury also gave an honourable mention to How an EU-funded security force helped Senegal crush democracy protests, by reporters working with Al Jazeera English and Fundación porCausa.
For more, see IJ4EU Impact Award winners announced.