February 2025
March 2025
Gambling Regulator Fines Merkur Slots £95,450 for Exploiting Vulnerable Patient
Merkur Slots UK was fined £95,450 after staff allowed a vulnerable cancer patient, Wendy Hughes, to lose nearly £2,000 in their Stockport branch over 16 hours in November 2023, failing to intervene despite numerous warning signs, highlighting insufficient social responsibility measures.
Gambling Regulator Fines Merkur Slots £95,450 for Exploiting Vulnerable Patient
Merkur Slots UK was fined £95,450 after staff allowed a vulnerable cancer patient, Wendy Hughes, to lose nearly £2,000 in their Stockport branch over 16 hours in November 2023, failing to intervene despite numerous warning signs, highlighting insufficient social responsibility measures.
Progress
24% Bias Score
Greek Energy Sector Faces 2,600 Consumer Complaints in 2024
In 2024, the Greek Consumer Advocate received over 2,600 energy sector complaints, primarily concerning inaccurate billing during supplier changes, misleading pre-contract information, and difficulties exercising withdrawal rights; 40% involved the Independent Power Transmission Operator (DEDDIE).
Greek Energy Sector Faces 2,600 Consumer Complaints in 2024
In 2024, the Greek Consumer Advocate received over 2,600 energy sector complaints, primarily concerning inaccurate billing during supplier changes, misleading pre-contract information, and difficulties exercising withdrawal rights; 40% involved the Independent Power Transmission Operator (DEDDIE).
Progress
48% Bias Score
Greece Launches Digital Real Estate Registry to Boost Tax Compliance
Greece's tax authority is launching a digital registry this month containing detailed information on over 7 million taxpayers' properties, consolidating data from various sources to improve tax compliance and transparency.
Greece Launches Digital Real Estate Registry to Boost Tax Compliance
Greece's tax authority is launching a digital registry this month containing detailed information on over 7 million taxpayers' properties, consolidating data from various sources to improve tax compliance and transparency.
Progress
40% Bias Score
Unilever Spins Off Ice Cream Division, Keeping Operations in Netherlands
Unilever announced that its ice cream division, including brands like Magnum and Ben & Jerry's, will become an independent company listed in New York, London, and Amsterdam, with its headquarters and Hellendoorn factory remaining in the Netherlands, preserving 180 jobs and creating new ones.
Unilever Spins Off Ice Cream Division, Keeping Operations in Netherlands
Unilever announced that its ice cream division, including brands like Magnum and Ben & Jerry's, will become an independent company listed in New York, London, and Amsterdam, with its headquarters and Hellendoorn factory remaining in the Netherlands, preserving 180 jobs and creating new ones.
Progress
44% Bias Score
Havertz's Season-Ending Injury Cripples Arsenal's Attack
Arsenal's star forward Kai Havertz will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season due to a hamstring injury requiring surgery, leaving the club without a recognized striker and raising serious concerns about their title chances.
Havertz's Season-Ending Injury Cripples Arsenal's Attack
Arsenal's star forward Kai Havertz will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season due to a hamstring injury requiring surgery, leaving the club without a recognized striker and raising serious concerns about their title chances.
Progress
40% Bias Score
Commerzbank to Cut 3,900 Jobs by 2028 to Counter Unicredit and Boost Profits
Commerzbank will cut 3,900 jobs by 2028, including 3,300 in Germany, primarily in central functions, to counter Unicredit's growing influence and boost profits to €4.2 billion by 2028 while maintaining a roughly constant global workforce of 36,700 through attrition and technology adoption.
Commerzbank to Cut 3,900 Jobs by 2028 to Counter Unicredit and Boost Profits
Commerzbank will cut 3,900 jobs by 2028, including 3,300 in Germany, primarily in central functions, to counter Unicredit's growing influence and boost profits to €4.2 billion by 2028 while maintaining a roughly constant global workforce of 36,700 through attrition and technology adoption.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Vytrus Biotech: Sustainable Plant Stem Cell Technology Disrupts Cosmetics Industry
Vytrus Biotech, a Spanish biotech firm, cultivates plant stem cells in labs to produce sustainable, high-yield cosmetic ingredients from 24 plant species, resulting in 21 unique compounds; in 2023, they achieved €3.74 million in revenue, with 70% from international sales.
Vytrus Biotech: Sustainable Plant Stem Cell Technology Disrupts Cosmetics Industry
Vytrus Biotech, a Spanish biotech firm, cultivates plant stem cells in labs to produce sustainable, high-yield cosmetic ingredients from 24 plant species, resulting in 21 unique compounds; in 2023, they achieved €3.74 million in revenue, with 70% from international sales.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Greek Seismologists Disagree on Earthquake Severity, Sparking Public Debate
A disagreement among Greek seismologists regarding the severity of recent earthquakes near Santorini and Amorgos caused public concern, highlighting challenges in communicating scientific uncertainty during natural disasters and sparking a debate about political influence on scientific bodies.
Greek Seismologists Disagree on Earthquake Severity, Sparking Public Debate
A disagreement among Greek seismologists regarding the severity of recent earthquakes near Santorini and Amorgos caused public concern, highlighting challenges in communicating scientific uncertainty during natural disasters and sparking a debate about political influence on scientific bodies.
Progress
52% Bias Score
Double Homicide in Weiteveen: Richard K. Convicted
Richard K. was convicted of the double murder of Sam and Ineke after a dispute over the sale of his house; he shot Ineke in her car and then shot and stabbed Sam in his home while his son tried to intervene.
Double Homicide in Weiteveen: Richard K. Convicted
Richard K. was convicted of the double murder of Sam and Ineke after a dispute over the sale of his house; he shot Ineke in her car and then shot and stabbed Sam in his home while his son tried to intervene.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Russian Court Awards Over One Million Rubles to Injured Worker
After a 2022 workplace accident at Irbit Milk Plant in Irbit, Russia, where Olga Tsepeleva fell from a three-meter scaffolding and sustained severe injuries, including six broken ribs and a lung injury, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court ruled in her favor, awarding over one million rubles in compensatio...
Russian Court Awards Over One Million Rubles to Injured Worker
After a 2022 workplace accident at Irbit Milk Plant in Irbit, Russia, where Olga Tsepeleva fell from a three-meter scaffolding and sustained severe injuries, including six broken ribs and a lung injury, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court ruled in her favor, awarding over one million rubles in compensatio...
Progress
52% Bias Score
France Curbs Solar Panel Growth to Boost Domestic Production
The French government plans to curb photovoltaic installations, prioritizing self-consumption and delaying larger projects until domestic production from gigafactories increases, impacting thousands of jobs and numerous companies.
France Curbs Solar Panel Growth to Boost Domestic Production
The French government plans to curb photovoltaic installations, prioritizing self-consumption and delaying larger projects until domestic production from gigafactories increases, impacting thousands of jobs and numerous companies.
Progress
56% Bias Score
AfD to Introduce Merz's Migration Plan in Saxony-Anhalt
The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt will introduce a migration plan identical to Friedrich Merz's, forcing the CDU to publicly declare its position on the plan passed in January with AfD and FDP votes, despite criticism from Chancellor Scholz and others.
AfD to Introduce Merz's Migration Plan in Saxony-Anhalt
The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt will introduce a migration plan identical to Friedrich Merz's, forcing the CDU to publicly declare its position on the plan passed in January with AfD and FDP votes, despite criticism from Chancellor Scholz and others.
Progress
40% Bias Score