(Why) Europe is running out of Meds

MIIR together with collaborating media teams from EDJNET spent a three month period looking for data and managed to create an updated database on drug shortages in Europe.

The Ecosystem of European Biometric Monitoring and Surveillance Data

The Digital Walls of Fortress Europe (part 1)
“We are Black and border guards hate us. Their computers hate us too.” – Adissu, living without immigration status in Brussels, Belgium

MIIR – iMEdD Investigation: No barrier to Covid-19 transmission in Greek prisons

- 1.4-fold higher than in the general population – the coronavirus spread fast in correctional facilities between July 2021 and February 2022. - The country's prisons were relatively unprotected in the 5th wave of the pandemic, while Covid-19 transmission showed no...

MIIR- iMEdD investigation: Covid-19 spread twice as fast in Greek prisons

Overcrowding, abuse of the minimum personal space of prisoners, hospitalization without segregation of patients, crowded quarantine, lack of medical staff and health measures, delayed vaccination. These are just some of the causes that lead to the virus’s spread....

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Trapped in Paradise: MIIR’s investigation on the tourism industry is out now

What lies behind the celebratory headlines about Greece’s “heavy industry”, tourism? After poring over thousands of pages, liaising with tens of workers, officials, trade unionists and industry insiders, investigating in situ in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, we...

MIIR attended workshops on FOIA requests

28/2/2010 Workshops on the right of access to information internationally

MIIR becomes member of EDJNET!

15/12/2019 We are happy to announce that the Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting is joning EDJNET, as the first based in Greece journalistic organisation.

Correspondence from London and the “Truth and Trust Online” Conference

8/10/2019 More than 250 academics, professionals, journalists and researchers participated in the “Truth and Trust Online” conference, with public debate on fake news, misinformation, deepfakes

“Tweets on the Dark Side of the Web” is now online

June 4, 2019 – MIIR’s first investigation on automated political propaganda through twitter in the Greek “Τwittersphere” is also being published in English….

MIIR’S first investigation is out!

May 20, 2019 – MIIR may have been officially founded on January 2019, but its data-driven seedlings were planted earlier, in the form of twitter bots…

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