The second part of Addendum’s in-depth investigation into timber smuggling in Eastern Europe. Here, the system of fraud and corruption that allows illegal logging to happen is revealed.
Eastern Europe hosts vast areas of virgin forest which could play a vital role in the battle against the climate crisis, yet they are being mercilessly torn down by a multi-billion euro Austrian-owned industry and a mafia-like system that stretches all the way from Romania to Ukraine.
Climate, the economy and immigration. The candidates and parties who stood in the European elections spent millions of euros on election advertising on Facebook. We have checked the contents of around 35,000 adverts from five different countries.
In Austria, the Freedom Party has turned from the most pro-European movement to the most europhobe and anti-immigration. In Germany the Liberal democrat party has put its hostility to migrants and refugees on top of its agenda. The same goes for Switzeland’s once-centrist DUC. What has happened to the Liberal ideology in German-speaking Europe?
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