Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

In 2019, Follow the Money did a thorough investigation into money flows of parties with seats in the European Parliament. This led to some very interesting stories about big tech financing the liberals, American Christian movements feeding into Euroscepticism, etc. For the upcoming elections, we want to repeat this investigation on a bigger scale. Not only do we want to track the money flows from the European parties, but we also want to add to the mix the finances of national parties and politicians linked to the European parliamentary parties. Does the big tech lobby also penetrate politics at the national level? Do religious sponsors find other venues to support pan-European conservative movements? In order to answer these, and other questions, we need to work with journalists from all over Europe. We need to dig into the available national party finance databases, and to investigate the most interesting sponsors. Come to this session to discuss how we can investigate European money flows together!