182 out of 184: This is what corporate capture looks like
We need to talk about what deregulation actually means in Brussels right now. It means one commissioner holding 184 meetings with external a...
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EU Watchdog Radio is a bi-weekly 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 acti...
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When Public Investment Fuels the Arms Race
In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Counter Balance, speaks with Laëtitia Sédou, EU Project Manager at the...
The Pollution Playbook: How industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals
In this episode, Joana from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) talks Nina Holland, agribiz researcher and campaigner at CEO, to Rachel Radva...
Unpacking the European clean industrial agenda
While negotiations for the next EU budget are underway, the European Commission’s plan to set up the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) as...
The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa
In this episode, Joana and Pascoe, co-directors of Corporate Europe Observatory's new documentary "The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa...
At What Cost? The EU’s Race for Critical Raw Materials in the Global South
In this episode, Isabela Franco and Lora Verheecke from Counter Balance unpack the EU’s growing push for critical raw materials and its impl...
There are now more Big Tech lobbyists than MEPs
Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being fun...
Green Hydrogen or Green Colonialism?
In this episode, Lora Verheecke, Policy Officer at Counter Balance, interviewed Hikma Bachegour, an Assistant Professor in the Sidi Mohamed...
New season coming soon!
Stay tuned to a brand new season of EU Watchdog Radio, where new hosts Isabela Franco and Lora Verheecke from Counter Balance join Marcella...
How trade tariffs and deregulation go hand in hand
Listen to the brand new podcast episode of EU Watchdog Radio, where CEO's campaigner and researcher Kenneth Haar discusses the link between...
New GMOs deregulated: The wet dream of the biotech industry coming true
Listen to our new podcast episode, where Nina Holland talks about the intense lobby battle that the biotech industry has been waging to get...
From Huaweigate to the AI Act: how to bake bias in
Last week, Brussels went reeling under another corruption scandal! This time it's Chinese big tech giant Huawei whose offices just behind th...
EIB in focus: Rethinking Europe's financial future with Yanis Varoufakis
The EU’s financial system operates in the shadows, with institutions like the European Investment Bank (EIB) wielding immense financial powe...
The corporate fight against PFAS restriction
What does a lipstick, a non-stick frying pan and Scotchgard have in common? They all contain PFAS, a.k.a., forever chemicals! In this episod...
Meet the Big Meat Lobby
In this last episode of EU watchdog radio of 2024 we dive into the topic of the global power of the Big Meat lobby and how two dozen ultra r...
Inaction kills - The EU, Gaza, and the arms industry
On Monday 28 October, South Africa submitted a detailed memorial against Israel to the International Court of Justice, seeking to establish...
COP29 HyCOPrisy
After pressuring Azerbaijan to up gas production for export, the EU is using COP29 to greenwash the fossil fuel and its own climate image. I...
A Commission for investors: public money for private gains
With the launch of the so-called “Investment Commission,” a worrisome agenda takes shape: prioritising supply chains and deregulation while...
The EU's deregulation frenzy: what's at stake?
Double deregulation, competitiveness checks, rule of law or the omnibus law, it can all sound like technocratic gibberish, but they are all...
Warfare or welfare: the EU's choice
As it prepares to usher in a new era of austerity, the EU is rife with declarations of increased militarisation, coupled with measures to si...