Episode 51: Helle Thorning-Schmidt — European Parliament election — Migration debate
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 tackling populism and who should lead Europe. Ryan als...
14 Jun 201836min
Episode 50, presented by Google: How NGOs lobby the EU — OSF's Patrick Gaspard — Leaders get younger
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 with the EU and national governments.Our first 50 epis...
7 Jun 201847min
Episode 49, sponsored by Barilla Foundation: Nicola Sturgeon — Journalist's revival — Irish vote
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. Sturgeon shares her views on Brexit, the chances of Brita...
31 Mai 201849min
Episode 48: Big tech’s brain hijack — Data protection D-Day — Zuckerberg’s Brussels moment
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 years as a design ethicist at Google and has been call...
24 Mai 201834min
Episode 47: Combating anti-Semitism — Boosting the Balkans — Europe from afar
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 Martina Larkin, who is heading up a World Economic F...
17 Mai 201842min
Episode 46, presented by Grow with Google: Curbing idealism - EESC chief Luca Jahier - Hot mic hell
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 Jahier, the new president of the European Economic ...
10 Mai 201841min
Episode 45: Margrethe Vestager — EU budget battle — Whistleblower protection
Ryan Heath hits the road with Europe’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — darling of Emmanuel Macron and foe of tax cheats and tech giants — to learn about how one Belgian city went from wa...
3 Mai 201837min
Episode 44, presented by Grow with Google: EU's energy future – Spencer Dale – Macron & Trump
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 looks into Europe’s energy future and discusses the ...
26 Apr 201840min
