On July 21, 2025, Nigel Farage held a press conference in Westminster, which was also published on YouTube by ITV News under the headline “Farage pledges to ‘halve crime in five years’ in law and order speech.” Nigel Farage, of the Reform UK party, used his speech in this press conference to introduce his party’s plan…
In June 2024, during public communications about the Neptun Deep offshore gas project, Christina Verchere, CEO of OMV Petrom, stated that “the Neptun Deep project does not induce a significant impact on environmental and socio-economic factors” and “is a strategic project for Romania and the EU, it will contribute to the country’s energy independence and…
On February 20, 2025, three days before the federal election in Germany, Alice Weidel, party leader of the AfD, claimed during the “Wahl 2025 Schlussrunde” on ARD and ZDF that the reason for the steadily rising health insurance contributions are the millions of people who were allowed into the statutory health insurance system by political…
On May 27, 2025, Thorsten Frei, Head of the German Chancellery, stated on the ARD talk show Maischberger: “Everyone who works full-time earns enough to live on”. This statement is false. The Context: A Heated Debate on Work and Wages On May 27, 2025, CDU politician and Head of the German Chancellery Thorsten Frei appeared…
On May 4, 2025, AfD politician Miguel Klauß published a reel on his Instagram profile in which he denied the rise in sea levels using the example of Venice. Specifically, he claims: “The constant sea level, for example in Venice for over 1.500 years, is the best proof of the climate sect’s lies about the…
Christine Anderson, a member of the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group, claimed in a Strasbourg plenary session at the European Parliament, that Romania barring Călin Georgescu from running in the presidential election is unprecedented and undemocratic. This statement is false. “Romania has now barred Călin Georgescu, as my colleague Mr Piperea just pointed out. This…
On 24 February 2024, an interview with Sahra Wagenknecht, chairwoman of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party, appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). FAZ is a German newspaper. In this interview, Wagenknecht stated: “Ms. Weidel does not represent far-right positions but rather conservative and economically liberal ones.” This statement turned out to be false. This fact-check focuses on the first part…
Jorge Buxadé, one of the leaders and the spokesperson of the extreme right-wing Spanish party Vox, claimed that “Barcelona has become the city with the highest crime rate in Spain and is an example of the failure of multiculturalism”. EUfactcheck looked into this claim and the source it was based on, and found out that…
In the “Europawahlprogramm 2024” (European Election Program 2024) of the German political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), alleged dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines are highlighted. The program claims a direct connection between these vaccines and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. This claim turns out to be false. “Due to (…) an alarming excess mortality,…
During a broadcast of the Flemish current affairs program “De Zevende Dag”, Klaas Slootmans, a member of the far-right party Vlaams Belang, claimed that in the next 25 years one billion African immigrants will come to (Western) Europe. After checking the facts, it turns out that Slootmans’ statement is false. In the episode of De…
