Vera Deleja-Hotko is an investigative journalist, based in Austria.

Vera is the Head of Research at FragDenStaat, a NGO specialised in freedom of information requests. Her research focuses mainly on the topics migration, right-wing  extremism and social inequality. Vera was part of the research team that published the Ibiza video in May 2019 and the international collaboration that published the Frontex Files in February 2021. 

Vera Deleja-Hotko

Basic information

Name
Vera Deleja-Hotko
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
Migration, right-wing  extremism, social inequality
Country
Austria
City
Vienna
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Supported projects

The Murky Paths of European Climate Aid

  • Climate
  • Finance

PARIS / LONDON / STOCKHOLM – This investigation reveals how European countries have been spending the “climate finance” that they have pledged to help developing countries tackle climate change.

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Prisons in Paradise

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

SAMOS-KOS - This cross-border independent investigation focuses on the newly opened “closed controlled access center” on the island of Samos. The first “pilot project of the European Union” that opened on the 18th of September 2021 and was entirely financed (43 Million Euros) by a fund of the EU-Commission, which vowed to “No Moria Morias”, after Europe's biggest refugee Camp Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos burned down last year.  

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