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How an old boy’s network hijacked Europe’s plan for a green future

Simon Van Dorpe
Day before yesterday

‘Nature conservation keeps stumbling ahead, from one failing policy to another’

Bart Crezee
10 March

The world’s largest carbon trader is wrestling with painful facts about its business model

Ties Gijzel & Bart Crezee
7 March

Dutch trust office sneaked Russian bankers and a Playboy model into the Netherlands

Siem Eikelenboom & Hugo Rasch
6 March

How a fraud algorithm learned to suspect vulnerable groups

David Davidson & Tom Claessens
The EU Files
2 March

Europe’s quest for more economic independence – and its pitfalls

Simon Van Dorpe
24 February

Many green investment funds downgrade their sustainability claim

Yara van Heugten & Remy Koens
The Russia Crisis
23 February

Heineken is bawling, but the fact remains: it invested in cola and stout beer in Russia

Olivier van Beemen
The Russia Crisis
23 February

Heineken reneges on its promise and invests in Russia

Olivier van Beemen
The Russia Crisis
23 February

European loans for Ukraine: utterly necessary, but a future burden

Krijn Schramade & Peter Teffer
The EU Files
11 February 2023

Frans Timmermans: wielding power in the Brussels minefield

Jesse Pinster
The EU Files
3 February 2023

Prominent EU Commissioner gratefully accepted royal treatment in the Emirates

Simon Van Dorpe & Salsabil Fayed
1 February 2023

KPMG advised ABN Amro about fraudulent CumEx transactions in its dispute with German tax authorities

Eric Smit & Siem Eikelenboom
27 January 2023

Showcase project by the world’s biggest carbon trader actually resulted in more carbon emissions

Bart Crezee & Ties Gijzel
The EU Files
25 January 2023

Cash for reforms? Hard choices yet to come for EU’s recovery fund

Peter Teffer
22 January 2023

‘The World Bank now is more sustainable and socially aware, but we are still a bank, of course’

Hans Wetzels
8 January 2023

Podcast | Money trails, with Oliver Bullough

Eric Smit & Roel Janssen
The EU Files
4 January 2023

Brussels struggles to weed out shady consultancies

Jasper Roorda
The EU Files
27 December 2022

MEP working on tech laws sees no problem in owning Apple stock

Peter Teffer
The CumEx Investigation
20 December 2022

Fortis Bank Netherlands engaged in fraudulent CumEx deals after its nationalisation

Eric Smit & Siem Eikelenboom
The EU Files
18 December 2022

Cash from Qatar: how could this happen in the European Parliament?

Simon Van Dorpe, Peter Teffer & Salsabil Fayed
The China Files
17 December 2022

China is already deeply embedded in the Dutch logistics sector

Casper Rouffaer & Siem Eikelenboom
The EU Files
14 December 2022

EU countries agree to reveal the winners of the 700 billion euro recovery fund

Peter Teffer
The Russia Crisis
14 December 2022

Putin’s oligarchs the EU prefers not to punish

Jesse Pinster
The EU Files
1 December 2022

EU Ombudsman: Commission failed to give reasons for secrecy on recovery plans

Peter Teffer & Staffan Dahllöf
1 December 2022

Agricultural millionaires and minimum wages: how European subsidy policy increases inequality

Ada Homolová, Leon de Korte & Ties Joosten
29 November 2022

Half of Europe’s ‘Dark Green’ funds invest in the fossil fuel industry or in aviation

Ties Joosten, Ties Gijzel, Remy Koens, Yara van Heugten & Leon de Korte
The EU Files
27 November 2022

Maverick economist Tommaso Valletti: ‘It’s time to fight the tech titans’

Simon Van Dorpe
1
21 November 2022

Corona and tax hacks make Pfizer the most profitable company in the Netherlands

Henk Willem Smits
16 November 2022

Pitch Europe: how private equity is reshaping the economy of Europe

Lukas Kotkamp & Ties Gijzel

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