France Probes BlackCore: Israeli Firm’s Alleged Election Meddling Rocks Municipal Vote
France’s intelligence agencies have launched a high-stakes investigation into whether an obscure Israeli firm called BlackCore orchestrated a foreign interference campaign against a hard-left political party during the country’s March 2026 municipal elections. The investigation focuses on fake websites, false social media profiles, and malicious advertisements online intended to tarnish the image of candidates from […]
Macron Faces Backlash for Interrupting Kenya Summit Audience
It was a brief, brusque, and immediately shareable act: Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, stepped out on the stage at an event targeting young people in Nairobi, grabbed the microphone from the speakers, and called for quiet from a noisy audience. The confrontation – during which he accused certain sections of the audience of […]
If China Had Taken €71 Million in EU Farm Subsidies, France Would Have Acted Immediately
The cross-border investigation by DeSmog in partnership with The Guardian, El Diario and G4Media found subsidiaries linked to the Al Nahyan royal family and an Emirati sovereign wealth fund received more than €71 million in Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments between 2019 and 2024 across Romania, Italy and Spain. The probe identified roughly 110 payments […]
Agricost: The Al Nahyan Family’s 57,000-Hectare EU Farm That €71 Million Subsidises — and Nobody Is Watching
Agricost’s case exposes systemic gaps: EU subsidies totalling about €71 million have flowed to companies linked to the Al Nahyan family and UAE sovereign interests while public records do not show a targeted environmental audit or transparent beneficial‑owner scrutiny for the EU’s largest single farm, Agricost, in Romania — a governance gap that demands immediate […]
In 15 Years, the UAE’s Al Nahyan Family Built a Global Farm Empire — €71 Million of It on EU Subsidies
In just 15 years, the UAE’s ruling Al Nahyan family has transformed a desert‑locked food‑import dependency into a global farming empire stretching across four continents. Now a new investigation shows that €71 million of European taxpayer money has quietly helped finance part of that expansion inside the European Union itself. The story is not just […]
