Supported projects

BRUSSELS - A completely new view on the Fortis-case and especially on the very closed deliberation procedure in the magistracy. Wim Van den Eyndes book Fortisgate raises serious questions about the functioning of the judiciary in Belgium.

PALERMO - An investigation into the contemporary Italian mafia in Europe. Or how the mafia made its way to the Low Countries.

MAASTRICHT - What are all those E numbers doing in the kitchens of our restaurants? An investigation into molecular gastronomy and the food additives industry in our modernist cuisine.

CONSTANTA - Smugglers, some of them organised in networks, are profiting from migrants’ despair by selling them their services, making a fortune in the process and fueling their criminal enterprise with cash.

COTONOU - The most controversial candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in Wes-African microstate Benin is Lionel Zinsou, who has roots in Benin but was born and raised in France. Will the next president in West-Africa be a white man?

MAPUTO - How much of the $850 million budget allocated to Mozambique's public-private company Ematum to buy a fishing fleet was actually spent on military hardware?

CAPE TOWN - The world behind a glass of South-African wine. Emma Lesuis went back to the winery where she made the documentary "Vir 'n glasie wyn" (For a glass of wine) and saw that little had changed. That's why she went looking for solutions and discovered the world of Fairtrade. 

KABUL - Each year, 115 tonnes of heroin from Afghan poppy fields is exported to Europe. Who wins? Who loses? And what is the impact of lucrative drug smuggling on people who live along this Balkan route?

BUCHAREST - The EU's focus on achieving energy independence is endangering the environment and the health of its citizens due to the continued exploitation of European uranium resources.

BRUSSELS - An investigation by VRT journalist Luc Pauwels shows that since November official Opel dealers have been modifying polluting software in one of the Opel models..

LONDON - The Special Branch Files Project is a live archive of declassified files focusing on the surveillance of political activists and campaigners.

LISBON – Each year, hundreds of African and South American minors come to Europe in search of a better life and professional success in the European football leagues, which they see as the new El Dorado. In doing so, they expose themselves to the cross-national, multimillion-dollar structures of ...

ANKARA - When you think of development aid, you think of poor countries. But the biggest receiver of EU development aid happens to be the 18th biggest economy of the world: Turkey. In 2013, Turkey received 2.4 billion Euros...

CANNES - Despite a European directive on joint jurisdiction on confiscated goods, actual European monitoring is virtually nonexistent. European criminal organisations take advantage of this lack of solid jurisdiction.

DONETSK - Russian-backed separatists have plundered the rebel-held regions in Ukraine's industrial heartland, creating an economy characterised by fear, hypocrisy and contradiction. How has business transformed since the rebels took control of Ukraine's east?

BRUSSELS - The four-part series SPUL investigates what doping use does to an athlete. Instead of judging or condemning - which is usually the case - SPUL goes in search of what happens to people when they start doping.

CALABAR - According to a 2013 study conducted by Paris-based charity Foot Solidaire, around 15,000 young boys from West Africa are trafficked to Europe every year by bogus football agents who promise them trials with top football clubs in exchange for large sums money from their families.

STANARI - While the Western Balkans have a widely untapped potential for green energy, Balkan governments like Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina are locking national energy systems into outdated and heavily polluting coal infrastructures for decades to come.

LAMPEDUSA - The current events surrounding the refugee flow cannot be ignored by the media, conversations and our thoughts. At the same time, the reception of refugees is only the first phase. The integration, the second phase, is the common thread through this documentary about the refugees in ...

The Dutch banking giant Rabobank is accused of profiting off the back of fraud, forgery and the systematic abuse of hundreds of Romania's poorest citizens, in a huge and aggressive land grab in Eastern Europe.