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Episode 51: Helle Thorning-Schmidt — European Parliament election — Migration debate
Episode 57
Helle Thorning Schmidt, the former Danish PM who's now head of Save the Children International, is our main guest. Host Ryan Heath asks her about tac…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 50, presented by Google: How NGOs lobby the EU — OSF's Patrick Gaspard — Leaders get younger
Episode 56
A blockbuster episode, our 50th, in which three guests from the world of NGOs talk about the joys of their work and their frustrations at dealing wit…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 49, sponsored by Barilla Foundation: Nicola Sturgeon — Journalist's revival — Irish vote
Episode 55
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to host Ryan Heath in an interview recorded in front of an audience at POLITICO's Brussels HQ. Sturge…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 48: Big tech’s brain hijack — Data protection D-Day — Zuckerberg’s Brussels moment
Episode 54
It’s a tech special this week — but you don’t have to be a geek to understand any of it. Host Ryan Heath talks to Tristan Harris, who spent three yea…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 47: Combating anti-Semitism — Boosting the Balkans — Europe from afar
Episode 53
We dive right in with two interviews — the first with the EU’s coordinator for combatting anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein. Then we speak to M…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 46, presented by Grow with Google: Curbing idealism - EESC chief Luca Jahier - Hot mic hell
Episode 52
Host Ryan Heath talks to author Vincent Stuer about his new book, Curb Your Idealism: The European Union as seen from within.
Ryan also chats to Luca …
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 45: Margrethe Vestager — EU budget battle — Whistleblower protection
Episode 51
Ryan Heath hits the road with Europe’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — darling of Emmanuel Macron and foe of tax cheats and tech giants…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 44, presented by Grow with Google: EU's energy future – Spencer Dale – Macron & Trump
Episode 50
Spencer Dale, the former chief economist at the Bank of England who now holds the same position at energy giant BP, is our main guest this week. He l…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 43, presented by Grow with Google: Cécile Kyenge — Harassment investigation — Winking Macron
Episode 49
Cécile Kyenge, one of the few black members of the European Parliament, talks to Ryan Heath about the obstacles and abuse she’s faced in her career —…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 42: The Orbán effect — Mr. Data Protection — Harassment at EU gender equality agency
Episode 48
Kati Marton, a veteran reporter and author now with the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks to host Ryan Heath about how the reelection of Victor…
7 years, 11 months ago