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27.11.16

The Housing Crisis

Builders make billions as housing crisis escalates

A Bureau analysis has found Britain’s major housebuilding firms are making multi-billion pound profits at the same time they argue they cannot meet affordable housing targets.

20.09.16

Binary Options

How Brits lose millions to UK’s biggest scam while government stands by

The Bureau spoke to dozens of people across the UK who had been targeted by a range of different companies. Many people have had money taken off their credit cards without consent.

11.05.16

Corporate Watch

The house always wins! Casino giants see tax savings result from new system of roulette wheels

Revenue from casino punters in London shifted out of the capital.

11.01.16

Corporate Watch

The billions made by lawyers when multinationals put countries in the dock

International arbitration courts are where companies sue countries and lawyers get rich.

18.09.15

Migration Crisis

Frontex: EU border agency to get huge budget hike as boss warns of failings with migrant fingerprint checks

Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri (left) and European Commission official Dana Spinant at House of Lords committee Frontex, the EU’s external border agency, is being given a 54% budget rise next year...

15.09.15

Migration Crisis

As refugee crisis escalates, Frontex border guard shortage is ‘scandalous’, says senior MEP

Member states failing to supply the EU’s border agency with border guards.

15.09.15

Migration Crisis

Europe’s refugee crisis: Is Frontex bordering on chaos?

As member states struggle to respond to the migration crisis, the Bureau investigates the European Union’s external border agency.

20.07.15

The Housing Crisis

Housing developers must disclose secret viability assessments, say senior Labour MPs

Heavyweight political backing for transparency comes after Bureau debate on the secret system used by developers to reduce affordable housing.

26.05.15

The Housing Crisis

‘Dismay doesn’t do it justice’: How a secret system was used to axe hundreds of affordable homes

Documents analysed by the Bureau reveal the inside story of how affordable housing was scrapped on a massive building scheme next to the O2 ‘Millennium Dome’ in Greenwich

28.04.15

Europe Under Scrutiny

A lobbying masterclass – how big business worked Brussels for new trade secrets law

The inside story of how big business worked with lobbyists to influence the EU in drawing up controversial trade secrets proposals.

27.02.15

The Housing Crisis

Legal challenge to thwart London’s £1.2bn Shell Centre development fails

Developer set to make £600m before it builds more than 20% affordable.

18.02.15

Europe Under Scrutiny

Vince Cable and Nobel prize winners warn Juncker over planned EU cuts to world leading science sector

Europe’s elite scientists pile pressure on Jean-Claude Juncker.

16.02.15

Europe Under Scrutiny

Juncker’s €315bn investment plan for EU in trouble as Nobel scientists criticise raid on space and research budget

Leaked guidance to Europe’s finance ministers shows research and science likely to be hit.

04.02.15

Europe Under Scrutiny

Boost for Juncker as possible probe by MEPs into LuxLeaks scandal now in the balance

Powerful political pressure wielded to protect Jean-Claude Juncker.

28.12.14

The Housing Crisis

Top housebuilders’ profits now back to pre-crash levels

Surging builders’ profits come as affordable housing numbers at eight year low.

17.12.14

Corporate Watch

Europe to disclose the true owners of companies – but not trusts

New European anti-corruption directive agreed last night.

16.12.14

Corporate Watch

Beneficial ownership registers in EU states won’t be made completely public

Campaigners and journalists will have to pass “public interest test” to access beneficial ownership information according to leaked draft anti-money laundering directive.

15.12.14

The Housing Crisis

The Great British housing crisis

A generation is priced out of the housing market. So why is the UK building fewer affordable homes?

12.12.14

Europe Under Scrutiny

Juncker fails to endorse public registers across EU revealing firms true owners

EU president appears to put key anti-corruption measure in jeopardy in letter sent to Bureau.

04.12.14

Corporate Watch

New banking scandal could cost savers billions

City regulator finds many traders rip off clients through the most basic financial services function.

Builders make billions as housing crisis escalates

How Brits lose millions to UK’s biggest scam while government stands by

The house always wins! Casino giants see tax savings result from new system of roulette wheels

The billions made by lawyers when multinationals put countries in the dock

Frontex: EU border agency to get huge budget hike as boss warns of failings with migrant fingerprint checks

As refugee crisis escalates, Frontex border guard shortage is ‘scandalous’, says senior MEP

Europe’s refugee crisis: Is Frontex bordering on chaos?

Housing developers must disclose secret viability assessments, say senior Labour MPs

‘Dismay doesn’t do it justice’: How a secret system was used to axe hundreds of affordable homes

A lobbying masterclass – how big business worked Brussels for new trade secrets law

Legal challenge to thwart London’s £1.2bn Shell Centre development fails

Vince Cable and Nobel prize winners warn Juncker over planned EU cuts to world leading science sector

Juncker’s €315bn investment plan for EU in trouble as Nobel scientists criticise raid on space and research budget

Boost for Juncker as possible probe by MEPs into LuxLeaks scandal now in the balance

Top housebuilders’ profits now back to pre-crash levels

Europe to disclose the true owners of companies – but not trusts

Beneficial ownership registers in EU states won’t be made completely public

The Great British housing crisis

Juncker fails to endorse public registers across EU revealing firms true owners

New banking scandal could cost savers billions

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