Matej Zwitter

BRUSSELS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign. This campaign was led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations. Their goal was to water down a proposal to ban "forever chemicals" in the EU. They also sought to shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society. This threatens the economic equilibrium of European nations.

Asbestos is more lethal than previously known. New figures, recognised by the EU institutions, show that 70,000-90,000 Europeans die each year of asbestos related cancer.

LJUBLJANA - What is the cost of security companies, such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and the injured. 

BRUSSELS - Suffering from Parkinson's disease or cancer, European farm workers experience inadequate recognition and failing compensation schemes, a cross-border research of media in ten European countries shows.

Wouter Elsen (Belgium) is a freelance video journalist and photographer.