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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Security For Sale: How Billions Of EU Subsidies Don’t Make Us Safer
European Union-wide stories are notoriously difficult to crack for journalists. That’s why I think this piece, investigating the EU security industry, is worth a read. It is a collaboration done by an international consortium of 22 journalists in 11 countries.
The report unveils how the EU is working hard to create a sort of European Homeland Security (in the US, the security industry is now worth over €100 billion). According to the European Commission, surveillance companies earn some €30 billion each year on the European market and enjoy double-digit growth.
They invested over €2 billion on research into advanced technologies meant to make society safer. This investigation shows that the impact of these controversial subsidies is - at the very least - questionable, but one thing is certain: they do heavily enrich the security industry.
Source: Dimitri Tokmetzis, Maaike Goslinga, Kristof Clerix, Kai Biermann, Guillaume Pitron, and Lorenzo Bagnoli Image: Infographics by L... thecorrespondent.com