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The golden lion roars from Cracow

TFP logo, a lion on a red background. Source: Reporters Foundation

How can Our Lady of Fatima holy cards distributed in Poland add up to hundreds of thousands of euros that have been invested in a radically conservative organization in Lithuania? Our cross-border investigation.

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30.12.2020

March for Life and Family, 20.09.2020, Warsaw. Photo by Reporters Foundation

The amounts funneled over several years by the founders of Poland’s Ordo Iuris to radical Catholic organisations overseas reach ten million euros. The discovery came as a result of our international investigation.

VSquare

28.12.2020

Adam Hofman from R4S, a company behind the campaign prepared for Coca-Cola. Photo by Darek Golik/Forum

We reveal a disinformation effort undertaken behind-the-scenes in an area where Poland’s PR and business sector meet.

Wojciech Cieśla

Konrad Szczygieł

05.12.2020

Photo by David Ištok/Aktuality.sk

On 1 December dozens of special police commandos in Bratislava entered the headquarters of Penta, an influential private-equity firm.

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03.12.2020

Fernando Antunez Aldunate (center) and Jędrzej Stępkowski (right), prominent members of Piotr Skarga Foundation Institute of Social and Religious Education during a March for Life and Family, 20.09.2020, Warsaw. Photo by Reporters Foundation

Tens of millions of zlotys, expensive properties, and a behind-the-scenes war for influence and money – we reveal the financial dealings of an empire built in Poland by a group of Catholic fundamentalists.

Konrad Szczygieł

20.11.2020

A protests at Warsaw’s historic PAST building, where Ordo Iuris’s elegant office occupies one of the floors. Photo by Konrad Szczygieł

Who influenced the the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to ban abortion?

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12.11.2020

Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Trencianske Stankovce

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a person at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing site during a second round of mass nationwide testing, in Trencianske Stankovce, Slovakia November 7, 2020 Photo by RADOVAN STOKLASA / Reuters / Forum

Slovak authorities underestimated the second wave of the pandemic and walked straight into it, unprepared.

Lukáš Diko

08.11.2020

Wroclaw, 08.10.2020. Long queues of ambulances waiting for place in a hospital Fot: Krzysztof Zatycki/Forum

Instead of dealing with the pandemic, Poland’s leaders try to cover it up with one distraction after another: the presidential campaign, the reconstruction of the government, the fight for power inside the coalition, controversial bills.