Arming the world: Rheinmetall’s secretive ammunition factory program

Germany’s leading defence company is a major supplier to Ukraine and ‘friendly’ Nato countries. But Rheinmetall also has a parallel business, free from German export rules, selling machinery and factories to places rarely named in public. Investigate Europe went on the trail of the arms giant’s little-known global operations.

19 December 2024

Attila Kálmán, Nico Schmidt

Eli Lilly invested in Germany after government ‘promise’ to make medicine prices confidential

Internal documents indicate that the federal government inserted a confidentiality clause into a new law in part to help secure a multi-billion euro investment from the US pharmaceutical company.

31 October 2024

Christina Berndt, Markus Grill, Harald Schumann

Infringement cold cases: member states left unpunished for dozens of EU law violations

The European Commission is regularly failing to enforce laws as member states avoid sanctions for more than 40 court-ruled violations, primarily concerning environmental legislation, Investigate Europe analysis reveals.

24 September 2024

Pascal Hansens, Harald Schumann, Maxence Peigné

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