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Euractiv
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digital · independent
· euractiv.com
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| 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.
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 |
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| 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
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.
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What we hold from them
Is Merz toast?
Euractiv's morning briefing does the arithmetic nobody else prints: three CDU members of the new parliament crossing what it calls an "increasingly theoretical firewall" would be enough. It is also the only report to
Merz's day of reckoning after a devastating defeat in Saxony-Anhalt
Euractiv's Berlin report is the only one with the constituency wipeout: the AfD won 38 of the 41 direct seats, the CDU none after taking 40 last time, and Schulze lost his own in Magdeburg. It is also one of two reports
Hungary stands by controversial migration rules despite EU pressure
Hungary's prime minister Péter Magyar cites Ceuta to extend "crisis" migration rules to 31 December, and says he wants the €1bn in accrued court fines back through the EU budget.
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Le Figaro says Putin ordered a three-day halt on Kyiv. NOS says both presidents agreed one, with no end date.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Rzeczpospolita's headline detains two men. Wyborcza, quoting the police, counts one.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Welt counts 1.4 million records in the Berlin leak; FAZ measures the same haul at 5.8 terabytes
— we have never been able to read this outlet
HotNews says 13%, Digi24 says "peste 7%" — one Hidroelectrica price rise
— read, nothing on this event
Efimerida ton Syntakton calls it "the crime at Tempi", Kathimerini calls it "the rail accident"
— read, nothing on this event
taz names „Daniel V.“; Welt and the SZ say only „ein 48-Jähriger aus Gevelsberg“
— read, nothing on this event
Budapest says conduct "incompatible with diplomatic status"; Magyar Nemzet says it was to fit "the European mainstream"
— read, nothing on this event
"Douze pays", says Libération; "France and Canada join UK", says Politico Europe
— read, nothing on this event
HotNews says one farm fund, iDNES says Agrofert's subsidies, Rzeczpospolita says "part of EU funds"
— read, nothing on this event