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Boeing and Airbus shipments passed on to Russia via India, despite sanctions

Indian intermediaries re-export aircraft parts worth millions from western firms to buyers in Russia, customs data up until last September shows.

20 February 2025

Chris Matthews, Ella Joyner, Leïla Miñano, Lorenzo Buzzoni, Wojciech Cieśla, Pascal Hansens

France spearheads member state campaign to dilute European AI regulation

22 January 2025

Maria Maggiore, Leïla Miñano, Harald Schumann

Arming the world: Rheinmetall’s secretive ammunition factory program

19 December 2024

Attila Kálmán, Nico Schmidt

Boeing and Airbus shipments passed on to Russia via India, despite sanctions

Indian intermediaries re-export aircraft parts worth millions from western firms to buyers in Russia, customs data up until last September shows.

20 February 2025

Chris Matthews, Ella Joyner, Leïla Miñano, Lorenzo Buzzoni, Wojciech Cieśla, Pascal Hansens

France spearheads member state campaign to dilute European AI regulation

Governments successfully lobby for freedom to surveil citizens in public spaces, target border areas with AI systems and exploit predictive policing algorithms, internal documents obtained by Investigate Europe reveal.

22 January 2025

Maria Maggiore, Leïla Miñano, Harald Schumann

Arming the world: Rheinmetall’s secretive ammunition factory program

Germany’s leading defence company is a major supplier to Ukraine and ‘friendly’ Nato countries. But Rheinmetall also has a parallel business, free from German export rules, selling machinery and factories to places rarely named in public. Investigate Europe went on the trail of the arms giant’s little-known global operations.

19 December 2024

Attila Kálmán, Nico Schmidt

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