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For the people of Lebanon, 2020 proved to be a year of near-total catastrophe.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia) has completed the pre-trial investigation of a possible fraud involving EU funds at the Municipality of Valka. Three individuals, including two municipal officials, have been formally charged with fraud and abuse of office.

The Vilnius City District Court (Lithuania) has convicted the members of an organised crime group in a fraudulent scheme involving EU and national funds intended for young farmers

After ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule in a landslide election victory, Hungary’s incoming leader, Péter Magyar, has promised a sweeping crusade to dismantle the country’s systemic graft.

In recent years, Hungary has emerged as one of the Kremlin’s key allies within the European Union. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has praised Vladimir Putin, obstructed EU assistance to Ukraine, and repeatedly blocked sanctions against Russia — a notable shift from his earlier stance in the late 2000s, when he was more openly critical of the Kremlin.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his government in a bid to contain the fallout from a widening agricultural fraud probe, urging European Union prosecutors to identify lawmakers accused of siphoning millions in subsidies through phantom livestock and ineligible farmland schemes.

The UK government is to break a manifesto commitment to ban foie gras imports, and has declined to stop fur imports.

Italy’s competition authority said on Thursday it had fined several companies of the Revolut group more than 11.5 million euros ($13.25 million) for alleged unfair commercial practices.

Leaked transcripts and audio recordings reviewed by The Insider and its investigative partners suggest that a direct hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov may have been used to relay sensitive information on key EU matters to Moscow.

After a period of relative silence, reports are again surfacing tying Dmytro Rukin to suspicious financial operations.

European Union lawmakers are on track to give a green light -- with conditions -- Thursday to the bloc’s tariff deal with US President Donald Trump, which Europe hopes to salvage while also racing to diversify its trade ties around the globe.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognize the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.

Pressure is mounting on the EU to tighten sanctions after an OCCRP investigation found that alumina from a major Irish refinery flowed to Russian smelters whose aluminum reached sanctioned arms manufacturers.

Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.

The knock-on effects of the conflict now whipping through the Middle East are awakening ghosts of crises past that shook the European Union.

The Interior Ministry acted days after local media reported that Chinese state actors in 2024 hacked the database of a police unit assigned to protecting Chinese dissidents.

On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European prosecutors and Ukrainian officials announced the first criminal charges related to atrocities committed during the war, stating that cases have started moving into court after years of coordinated investigations led by Eurojust.

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Greek authorities are preparing additional arrests in a significant European Union farm subsidy fraud case after placing 15 suspects in custody last week, the minister of citizen protection said Monday.

One of Russia’s largest metal trading networks, Metallokomplekt M (formerly OJSC Komtekh), is preparing to exit the market after reporting record losses, according to sources familiar with the situation.

State-owned Romanian energy firm Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA has declared much lower-than-average carbon dioxide emissions figures despite burning heavily-polluting low-grade coal, raising questions of whether it has skirted hundreds of millions in EU carbon taxes.

OCCRP member centers found that an Italian man with business in Slovakia has been convicted on drug charges involving a group linked to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia. But the alleged ‘Ndrangheta links to Slovakia don’t end with him.

In the United Kingdom, a company is registered that, by all appearances, should have been lost among hundreds of similar entities. But FOXCLOUD LLP is not such a case.

Britain risks dangerously underestimating both the scale and the immediacy of the Russian threat in Europe, a delegation of leading UK Russia experts has warned, as Poland and the European Union accelerate preparations for a more volatile security era.