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Euractiv

🇧🇪BE · digital · independent · euractiv.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1999 — the Euractiv news website (EU-policy focused), by media entrepreneur Christophe Leclercq · source
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium, with additional offices in Paris and Berlin · source
Funding	Wikipedia states Euractiv has 'diversified sources of funding, as the company seeks private and public revenues to run its business,' and that in 2019 about a fifth of its income came from public sources including the EU. The outlet itself is privately owned (by Mediahuis since May 2023), not state-owned or state-controlled.
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Measure chosen

the only report we hold that breaks the result down by voters' age — in 1 article

Measure chosen

the only report we hold that publishes how the age groups split — in 1 article

Which figure is used

about 80,000 stated flat and unsourced — an order of magnitude above every other figure we hold — in 1 article

Which figure is used

Puts 80,000 across the border in two days with no source for the figure and nobody attributed for it. — in 1 article

From 41 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 misleading2 disputed1 unverified2 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Mediahuis	company	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Mediahuis Partners NV	company	50.60%	yes	equity	—	link
Concentra	company	32.70%	—	equity	—	link
VP Exploitatie	company	16.70%	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Christophe Leclercq

Founder (1999)

French media entrepreneur credited by Wikipedia as the founder of Euractiv in 1999; whether he holds any current role at the outlet, now owned by Mediahuis, was not verified.