EU Watchdog Radio

EU Watchdog Radio is a podcast launched by two Brussels NGO's: Counter Balance and Corporate Europe Observatory. In each episode, we dive deeper into topics that relate to our activities in Brussels. Whether it be steps to increase transparency of lobbies in the EU or how to tackle public investment in a way that works for everyone. We explore it all, right here at EU Watchdog Radio!

EU Watchdog Radio is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 72 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts EU Watchdog Radio, a news show with 72 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  AI and Data Centres investments: Billions In, Answers Out

  Sep 24, 202626 minS2

  In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Alma Kirchhoff, Research Assistant at Counter Balance, speaks with Zuzanna Warso, Director of Research at Open Future, about the lack of transparency surrounding European investment in AI and data centres. They unpack critical questions about where public money is going, and what the rapid expansion of data centres means for energy systems and the environment. Can a climate bank invest in infrastructure that risks running counter to its own climate mandate? Read the blog: Can the EIB be a Data Centres Bank and call itself a Climate Bank?

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  Episode #10

  Indemnifying Bayer: a corrupt company who uses corrupt science now wants to be rewarded for fraud

  Aug 27, 202633 minS2

  Bayer and its lobby groups are trying to get Congress in the States to indemnify them against lawsuits, giving them complete legal protection. Listen to our brand new episode where CEO’s Nina Holland talks to Naomi Oreskes. Naomi Oreskes is an historian of science, professor at Harvard University, she’s the author or co-author of 8 books, and over 150 articles and essays. She is the co-author, with Erik M. Conway, of the best-selling books ‘Merchants of Doubt’, and ‘The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market’. ‘Merchants of Doubt’ identified parallels between the climate change debate and earlier different public controversies, notably the tobacco industry’s lobbying and propaganda campaign to obscure the link between smoking and lung cancer.

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  Episode #9

  What are Green Public Services and why do we need them?

  Jun 24, 202618 minS2

  In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy Officer at Counter Balance, speaks with Frank Vanaerschot, Director at Counter Balance, about their new briefing on green public services. As Europe faces rising living costs, energy crisis, and climate breakdown, they discuss how public investment can help deliver affordable housing, clean energy, and accessible public transport while accelerating decarbonisation. Check out the briefing: https://counter-balance.org/publications/briefing/green-public-services-briefing/

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  Episode #8

  182 out of 184: This is what corporate capture looks like

  May 28, 202625 minS2

  We need to talk about what deregulation actually means in Brussels right now. It means one commissioner holding 184 meetings with external actors, 182 of them with business groups. It means indigenous Sami reindeer herders in Sweden losing their last migration route to a fast-tracked mine. It means the public funding the polluters' infrastructure while they keep the profits. In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Joana from Corporate Europe Observatory talks to colleagues Kenneth Haar and Rachel Tansey about their two new reports exposing the corporate machinery behind the EU's deregulation agenda — and the communities already bearing the costs. This is not simplification. This is corporate capture. Check out the reports: - This is what corporate capture looks like! - Permission to pollute We're a small, independent organisation. If you can, support us and help us fight the good fight!

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  Episode #7

  When Public Investment Fuels the Arms Race

  Apr 30, 202633 minS2

  In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Counter Balance, speaks with Laëtitia Sédou, EU Project Manager at the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT), about how EU public finance is fuelling the militarisation and boosting the global arms race. Together, they explore how deregulation is reducing safeguards in favour of the military sector, and how major military companies are gaining access not only to public funding, but even to “sustainable” investment labels.

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