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. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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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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  Episode #6

  The Pollution Playbook: How industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals

  Mar 26, 202632 minS2

  <p>In this episode, Joana from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) talks Nina Holland, agribiz researcher and campaigner at CEO, to Rachel Radvany, environmental health campaigner at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and to Olivier De Schutter, legal scholar and university professor specialising in economic and social rights, who served served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014 and, in 2020 was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.</p><p>Together with CIEL, CEO launched a briefing into how the industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals. It’s called “The poll...

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  Episode #5

  Unpacking the European clean industrial agenda

  Feb 26, 202647 minS2

  <p>While negotiations for the next EU budget are underway, the European Commission’s plan to set up the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) as the main vehicle to achieve its clean industrial agenda. In today’s episode Marilisa Marigliano talks with Angela Wigger and Rodrigo Fernandez to debunk the InvestEU program, which is set to be the cornerstone of the ECF, raising urgent questions about who benefits, an who actually decides the direction of Europe’s green transition. They expose the power relations and governance flaws that open the door for distortions in achieving a truly just transition in European indust...

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