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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

19 December 2024

Attila Kálmán, Nico Schmidt

Eli Lilly invested in Germany after government ‘promise’ to make medicine prices confidential

31 October 2024

Christina Berndt, Markus Grill, Harald Schumann

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

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

Eli Lilly invested in Germany after government ‘promise’ to make medicine prices confidential

Internal documents indicate that the federal government inserted a confidentiality clause into a new law in part to help secure a multi-billion euro investment from the US pharmaceutical company.

31 October 2024

Christina Berndt, Markus Grill, Harald Schumann

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How big pharma feeds inequality in Europe

Confidential agreements and medicines out of reach for millions. This investigation goes inside Europe’s secret drug pricing system, revealing a world of opaque deals and unequal access.