Podcast

Anthony L. Gardner on the EU and Ukraine | "Stars With Stripes” | Brexit’s toll on Europe | Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage | Ursula von der Leyen’s geopolitical Europe | Internationalising the euro | Belgian pralines

Alberto Alemanno on lobbying the far right | Maris Hellrand on slacktivism | Heather Grabbe on red lines | Benedikt Herges of Siemens on the dangers for corporates | Michiel van Hulten on transparency

Christian legal armies on the march | Mary Fitzgerald of openDemocracy | CitizenGO and VOX | Cake case goes to the European Court of Human Rights | Blaž Zgaga on faith-based lobbying and invisible donors

Rape, fertility, and magical thinking among Romanian priests | A Socialist leader denies gender equality | A medical chief mocks affordable abortion | Bianca’s story | No terminations before Christmas and Easter

Women in Romania have had the legal right to an abortion since 1990. But many women seeking care find themselves in a Kafkaesque trap. Bianca, a young Romanian, ended up obtaining abortion pills without a prescription, and she took them without me...

Pressure on women intensifies in Croatia, Romania and Poland | European elections give reproductive bullies a boost | Plastic embryos at the European Parliament | Pro-choice and LGBT face a common enemy

Tony Blair | Taking on nationalist populists and winning | Europe still lacks “sense of itself" | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | The far right and extreme right in the new European Parliament | Milkshaking MEPs

Tony Blair shares his two-pronged formula for taking on nationalist populists — and winning. He says Britain is making a "profound historical mistake” by capitulating to the Brexiteers. But he has a stern message for Europe too: do more to stand u...

Nuseir Yassin of Nas Daily | Vlogging against discrimination and religious misconceptions | Mehreen Khan of The Financial Times | Orientalism in 2019 | Europe fumbles its relations with its Muslim inhabitants

Estonia's prime minister partners with white supremacists | Campaigners respond with pink spittle | Broadcaster Ahto Lobjakas faces censorship and threats | Kõigi Eesti seek to preserve respect and inclusion | Cas Mudde on EKRE

Seventeen million European Union residents blocked from the ballot | Symbolic voting in Berlin with Demokratie in Der Mitte | Séverine Lenglet of Citizens For Europe | Lucy Thomas of Give Something Back to Berlin

Yanis Varoufakis accuses Juncker and Salvini of evil dancing | Eleni Varvitsioti recalls the Greek bailout | DiEM25's €2.5 trillion election pledge | Pamela Anderson on activism | Tribute to Jarvis Cocker

Yanis Varoufakis is the leftist former Greek finance minister who tried and failed to end austerity. Like him or loathe him, Varoufakis is worth a look ahead of EU elections where centrists are struggling to compete with the far right’s clear and ...

Professor Christine Neuhold on the Maastricht Debate | Real and surreal European politics | An evening on Planet Europe with Pelle Christy | Violeta Tomić versus political animals | Jan Zahradil has Big Fun

Carl Dolan of Transparency International | Marine Le Pen and misuse of EU party funds | Holding far-right populist governments to account | MEP Watch | Making European Parliament voting records available to campaign groups

In conversation with Margrethe Vestager | Huawei and China | Climate protection and yellow vests | Red lines for Liberals | Selective tax breaks | Addressing nationalists and speaking from the heart | Beatles vs. Rolling Stones

Margrethe Vestager is the European Union antitrust enforcer who's earned global recognition for pushing Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Google and Facebook to treat consumers and competitors fairly. Last month she put herself in the running to ...

Historian Heidi Tworek on News from Germany | Information warfare in the run-up to Nazism | Lessons for the age of Google, Facebook and Twitter | Social media's Code of Practice and European Parliament elections

This episode of EU Scream aired a couple of weeks ago amid expectations Europe’s conservatives would expel Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and his Fidesz party for violating the rule of law and insulting EU leaders. Last week the European P...

The uses and abuses of climate policy by parties on Europe's far right | The UK Independence Party and denial of climate science | Le Pen whips up fear of climate refugees | The view from the European Parliament with Bas Eickhout

Viktor Orbán's smear campaigns | Stories and analysis from Márta Pardavi and Péter Krekó in Hungary | European Parliamentarian Judith Sargentini still under pressure from Budapest | How to pronounce foie gras

Manfred Weber's reluctance to boot Viktor Orban from the European People's Party | Heather Grabbe, Axel Voss, Anett Bősz, Judith Sargentini, Laurent Pech on Fidesz and Europe | James and Tom on nicknames for Michel Barnier and Matteo Renzi

Barry Eichengreen discusses The Populist Temptation | The eminent economic historian sees strong links between austerity and rise of far-right | Brussels advised to pare back fiscal rules and IMF dinged for being supine

Heather Grabbe presents survey findings showing the wide range of values European have in common | Soundous Boualam talks to James and Tom about confronting prejudice and giving the European Union more of a human face

Corinna Hörst on Angela Merkel and Brussels policymaking | Jeanne Ponté on #MeTooEP and German conservative pushback | Joanna Maycock on feminist satire and the far-right's agenda for women | "Love Yodel! Hate Fascism!"