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Press release
03-10-2025
2025 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism: ten finalists shortlisted [25]
The jury of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism has shortlisted ten investigations for the fifth edition of the award.
European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza [26] Disclose, The Guardian, Follow the Money/
The Forever Lobbying Project [27] Le Monde and various media outlets/
Les forçats du cybercrime (Cyberslaves) [28] Paris Match/
Wide-angle frame of death ( part 1 [29] and part 2 [30] ) Novosti/
Dirty Payments [31] Mediapart, European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) and 20 media outlets/
The Viktoriia Project [32] Forbidden Stories and various media outlets/
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans are recruited through Telegram to commit sabotage, arson and murder [33] Delfi, OCCRP, Paper Trail Media, Der Standard, Tamedia, ZDF, Re:Baltica/
Ecocide in Iraq: How big oil companies are turning marshlands into deserts [34] IrpiMedia, JournalismFund Europe, IJ4EU/
The Shadow Fleet Secrets [35] Follow the Money and various media outlets/
Die unsichtbare Front [36] Missy Magazine/
More information about each finalist here [37] . *Between 21 May and 31 July 2025, hundreds of journalists from the 27 EU countries submitted their stories for consideration. Ten out the of the 316 submissions were selected as finalists.
The winner will be announced in an award ceremony taking place on Tuesday 21 October 2025*, in the evening, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (Daphne Caruana Galizia Press Room). Finalists will be present in the ceremony as well as the seminar on Press Freedom which will be organised earlier on the same day.
An invitation to accredited journalists to attend both events will follow.
Press seminar before ceremony *The media services of the European Parliament are also organising a press seminar just before the ceremony.
The seminar will analyse the role of journalists in today’s world and the threats they face. The situation of journalists in the Middle East will be at the centre of the discussion, with Palestinian and Israeli journalists sharing their firsthand experiences of this tragedy.
The seminar will be opened (online) by Italian author and journalist Roberto Saviano, and will be closed by Russian journalist and Chairwoman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Konstantinovna Pevchikh, alongside Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The 10 projects selected as finalists for the Prize will also be highlighted.
To help us determine how many journalists will require access to the press seminar and to arrange interviews with speakers and finalists, please register for the event and/or interviews by 16 October at 10:00 am via this link [38] .
About the Prize *Launched in 2020, the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism is open to professional journalists and teams of professional journalists of any nationality, who can submit in-depth pieces that have been published or broadcast by media based in one of the 27 EU countries. An independent jury composed of representatives of the press and civil society from the 27 member states, as well as representatives of the main European journalists’ associations, will choose the winning entry. The prize and the €20 000 prize money demonstrate the European Parliament’s strong support for investigative journalism and the importance of a free press.
Past winners*
2021 – “ The Pegasus Project [39] ”, coordinated by the None [40] Forbidden Stories/
2022 – Documentary [41] on “The Central African Republic under Russian Influence” by Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade ( ARTE/France24/Le Monde/)
2023 – Joint investigation [42] on the Pylos migrant boat shipwreck ( Solomon/, in collaboration with Forensis/, StrgF/ARD/, and The Guardian/)
2024 – Investigation [43] on missing unaccompanied child migrants ( None [44] Lost in Europe/ )
Who was Daphne Caruana Galizia? *Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist who reported extensively on corruption, money laundering, organised crime, sale of citizenship and the Maltese government’s links to the Panama Papers. Following harassment and threats, she was murdered in a car bomb explosion on 16 October 2017. The outcry over the authorities’ handling of her murder investigation ultimately prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Critical of failings in the investigation, in December 2019, MEPs called on the European Commission to take action [45] .
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