Get the facts on Europe
Fact checks about Brexit, the 2016 referendum, the UK's trade relationships and the EU
Get the facts on… EU regulation Asylum
Latest Europe fact checks
Video of French president dancing in nightclub is a deepfake
Footage allegedly showing Emmanuel Macron clubbing has been circulating on social media, but it has been digitally altered.
Diary of Anne Frank not written by American novelist after WW2
Untrue claims about the authorship and authenticity of Anne Frank’s diary have been circulating online—including that it was written in ballpoint pen after the Second World War.
France has not banned halal slaughter ahead of Ramadan
A false claim from 2021 that a French ministerial instruction about the stunning of poultry prior to slaughter would lead to a ban on ritual slaughter has been circulating again …