Eoghan Gilmartin
@eoghangilmartin.bsky.social
Journalist
Winner: European Press Prize 2024 - Special Award and the #IJ4EU Impact Award
Also co-host of @sobremesapod.bsky.social
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Winner: European Press Prize 2024 - Special Award and the #IJ4EU Impact Award
Also co-host of @sobremesapod.bsky.social
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...paying migrant workers just €4.50 an hour to work 11-hour days, seven days a week.
Case 4: “We were treated like slaves, working shifts of up to 14 hours,” recounts Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who in 2023 worked as a fruit-picker in southern France, where he was subjected to...
Case 4: “We were treated like slaves, working shifts of up to 14 hours,” recounts Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who in 2023 worked as a fruit-picker in southern France, where he was subjected to...
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
...paying migrant workers just €4.50 an hour to work 11-hour days, seven days a week.
Case 4: “We were treated like slaves, working shifts of up to 14 hours,” recounts Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who in 2023 worked as a fruit-picker in southern France, where he was subjected to...
Case 4: “We were treated like slaves, working shifts of up to 14 hours,” recounts Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who in 2023 worked as a fruit-picker in southern France, where he was subjected to...
Case 3: In Campania, Italy, a farmer convicted of exploitation in 2023 received nearly €200,000 in CAP subsidies the following year – almost enough to cover the €250,265 fine imposed as part of his sentence. The farm, which collected over a million euros in subsidies since 2015, was found to be...
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Case 3: In Campania, Italy, a farmer convicted of exploitation in 2023 received nearly €200,000 in CAP subsidies the following year – almost enough to cover the €250,265 fine imposed as part of his sentence. The farm, which collected over a million euros in subsidies since 2015, was found to be...
Case 2: a farmer in Jaén, Spain – convicted of exploitation in 2016 and twice charged with murder over the alleged deaths of two different migrant farmworkers a decade apart – was paid €118,000 in public funds between 2014 and 2022.The sum includes €17,000 paid, a year after a 2nd worker disappeared
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Case 2: a farmer in Jaén, Spain – convicted of exploitation in 2016 and twice charged with murder over the alleged deaths of two different migrant farmworkers a decade apart – was paid €118,000 in public funds between 2014 and 2022.The sum includes €17,000 paid, a year after a 2nd worker disappeared
The three convicted farmers were ordered to were ordered to pay the workers a total of €44,000 in compensation, but their family-run farm received €41,000 in CAP subsidies that same year. Since their initial arrest, they have been paid €283,000 in EU funds.
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The three convicted farmers were ordered to were ordered to pay the workers a total of €44,000 in compensation, but their family-run farm received €41,000 in CAP subsidies that same year. Since their initial arrest, they have been paid €283,000 in EU funds.
Case 1: In 2024, a local politician for the Popular Party in Galicia, Spain, was sentenced, along with 2 family members, to 9 months in prison after forcing 2 migrant workers to work 13 hours a day 7 days a week – without a contract, breaks or benefits...
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Case 1: In 2024, a local politician for the Popular Party in Galicia, Spain, was sentenced, along with 2 family members, to 9 months in prison after forcing 2 migrant workers to work 13 hours a day 7 days a week – without a contract, breaks or benefits...
An image which seems to condense the contradictions of Spain's recent past.
May 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
An image which seems to condense the contradictions of Spain's recent past.
"Spanish anti-fascists welcome the forces of liberation"
80 years ago today Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. They were welcomed by Spanish Republicans prisoners' famous banner. Nearly 4,500 exiled socialists, communists and anarchists died in the Nazi camp.
80 years ago today Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. They were welcomed by Spanish Republicans prisoners' famous banner. Nearly 4,500 exiled socialists, communists and anarchists died in the Nazi camp.
May 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Spanish anti-fascists welcome the forces of liberation"
80 years ago today Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. They were welcomed by Spanish Republicans prisoners' famous banner. Nearly 4,500 exiled socialists, communists and anarchists died in the Nazi camp.
80 years ago today Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. They were welcomed by Spanish Republicans prisoners' famous banner. Nearly 4,500 exiled socialists, communists and anarchists died in the Nazi camp.
A great proposal but unfortunately it is only that. Hardly even a remote chance it'll become law. Junts has made it clear it won't vote for it & most likely will never reach a vote in the Congreso as Gov knows it doesn't have the numbers.
So what is Sumar's plan after 18 months of parl. deadlock?
So what is Sumar's plan after 18 months of parl. deadlock?
March 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A great proposal but unfortunately it is only that. Hardly even a remote chance it'll become law. Junts has made it clear it won't vote for it & most likely will never reach a vote in the Congreso as Gov knows it doesn't have the numbers.
So what is Sumar's plan after 18 months of parl. deadlock?
So what is Sumar's plan after 18 months of parl. deadlock?
Great analysis from @alejandrosrguez.bsky.social on latest CIS polling in Spain.
Particularly revealing on collapse in support for Yolanda Díaz's leadership of the left. From being the preferred choice of 2/3s of Sumar's voters for prime minister in 2023, that figure is now at just 23%.
Particularly revealing on collapse in support for Yolanda Díaz's leadership of the left. From being the preferred choice of 2/3s of Sumar's voters for prime minister in 2023, that figure is now at just 23%.
March 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Great analysis from @alejandrosrguez.bsky.social on latest CIS polling in Spain.
Particularly revealing on collapse in support for Yolanda Díaz's leadership of the left. From being the preferred choice of 2/3s of Sumar's voters for prime minister in 2023, that figure is now at just 23%.
Particularly revealing on collapse in support for Yolanda Díaz's leadership of the left. From being the preferred choice of 2/3s of Sumar's voters for prime minister in 2023, that figure is now at just 23%.
1000 Lives, 0 Names:
The Border Graves Investigation
How the EU is failing migrants' last rights
unbiasthenews.org/border-grave....
December 9, 2023 at 2:20 PM
1000 Lives, 0 Names:
The Border Graves Investigation
How the EU is failing migrants' last rights
unbiasthenews.org/border-grave....