Federica Tessari

Federica Tessari is an Italian investigative journalist and reporter. She specialises in security, migration and European governance and is based in Brussels. Formerly an EU correspondent, she has written for publications such as L'Espresso, EUobserver, The European Correspondent and The Brussels Times. In 2023, her podcast investigative report Case per finta, exploring the mental health risks for children in the “content economy", was a finalist for the Morrione Prize for investigative journalism.

The unresolved issue: living next to a polluted site

Many places in Europe have been contaminated by companies which, despite sometimes having been “ordered” to carry out remediation, fail to compensate residents for the damage caused to t...