🇪🇺💻 Can Europe ever achieve digital sovereignty?

Journalist Alexander Fanta breaks down why the EU still depends on American tech – from cloud servers to major apps – using cases like the Zivver data breach and AWS outage to show how fragile Europe’s digital independence is.

“The CEO used to be an elite spy.”

FTM journalist Sebastiaan Brommer reveals how European health and government data ended up with a U.S. firm tied to ex-Israeli intelligence – and the risks that poses.

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Think Europe shapes its own policies? Think again. A third of Brussels’ 'independent' think tanks get millions from the U.S. and Big Tech to protect their interests and shape the EU agenda.

💭 Should foreign funding in EU think tanks be more transparent?

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🇺🇸 ⚖️ Why did the U.S. suddenly drop two major NATO corruption cases?

In our latest podcast, journalists Simon Van Dorpe and Jesse Pinster unpack the story.

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🏆 This week, 'The Shadow Fleet Secrets' won the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2025. It exposed how Western shipowners sold 230 old tankers – earning $6 billion from deals that built Russia’s shadow fleet and helped it dodge EU sanctions.

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🍺⚠️ Ireland wanted to tell drinkers the truth: alcohol causes cancer.

Big Alcohol made sure cancer warnings never reached your bottle – using the same scientists and tactics once hired by Big Tobacco.

🔗 Read our investigation here: www.ftm.eu/articles/alc...

💰 𝗔 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲. €𝟭𝟱𝟬𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗮𝗶𝗱. 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁.
Virunga was meant to protect nature – instead, EU money helped fund a crypto-fuelled project in Congo.

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💶 Your tax money. Their spyware.

Journalist Vas Panagiotopoulos reveals how EU funds flowed to spyware firms – tools weaponised by regimes, criminals and terrorists, threatening press freedom and safety.

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💰 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞’𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞? Eve Moore reveals how billions flow through banks and insurers in our latest investigation.

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐔 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬?

In our latest podcast, journalists and Emma du Chatinier talk with spyware expert Vas Panagiotopoulos about how EU money fuels firms behind illegal surveillance and repression.

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💊 False health claims are banned in the EU – but Kourtney Kardashian’s Unilever-backed gummies still sell, tricking consumers with products they don’t even need. Journalist Irene van den Berg explains how brands bend the rules while regulators can’t keep up.

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