Ep.103: Politics and Eurovision, Sweden v France, Ukraine v Russia, Israel
EU Scream7 Apr 2024

Ep.103: Politics and Eurovision, Sweden v France, Ukraine v Russia, Israel

Some people love Eurovision. Others don't get it. But beyond the camp and kitsch of the annual song contest there's much to observe about the politics of Europe and the wider region. In this episode, author and broadcaster Dave Keating starts with discord between Sweden and France over language. The sourest notes were struck in the mid-1970s after the Swedish group ABBA won with a song in English alluding to the historic French defeat at Waterloo. The French then stepped up their campaign aga...

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Ep.130: Live Behind the News on Disinfo, Deportations, Corruption

Ep.130: Live Behind the News on Disinfo, Deportations, Corruption

Straight talk on what's behind the news, recorded live at the Full Circle in Brussels. Estelle Nilsson-Julien, a reporter with Euronews, describes the killings of two very different young men, Quenti...

30 Juni 1h 1min

Ep.129: Sovereignty and Software

Ep.129: Sovereignty and Software

A handful of American technology companies provide the backbone for much of the world's digital activity, including in public services. But with the current US administration signaling a shift to auto...

22 Juni 57min

Political Communication in the New Age of Spectacle

Political Communication in the New Age of Spectacle

Sedate and unflashy international institutions are in a struggle for attention in this new age of spectacle. In a step change aimed at addressing the challenge, the European Commission, the EU's execu...

16 Maj 56min

Ep.127: One Energy Shock After Another

Ep.127: One Energy Shock After Another

Energy prices have exploded as a result of the Trump Administration's war on Iran. It's another opportunity for Europe to shield itself against the kind of fossil fuel shock that hit four years ago wh...

19 Apr 1h 2min

Ep.126: Freedom in the Age of the Algorithm

Ep.126: Freedom in the Age of the Algorithm

Tech bros like to blabber about AI and the end of the world. But the more plausible catastrophe they'll unleash is severe inequality and economic distress. As anger and panic grows over the automation...

8 Mars 1h 29min

Ep.125: The Geopolitics of Whiteness

Ep.125: The Geopolitics of Whiteness

European leaders are failing to pushback against racist messaging from the Trump Administration, signaling their acceptance of a new geopolitics of whiteness. Among the most recent examples is a stand...

24 Feb 47min

Ep.124: Machiavellian Moment in the Arctic

Ep.124: Machiavellian Moment in the Arctic

Germany and Sweden are among states deploying troops to Greenland. Yet Trump's power play for the island in the wake of his Venezuela raid has left much of Europe bewildered. As author and historian L...

15 Jan 46min

Ep.123: Owned, Extorted, and Gaslit

Ep.123: Owned, Extorted, and Gaslit

Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, Donald Trump has imposed one-sided tariffs on the European Union, forced the bloc to commit to buying vast quantities of American natural gas, and effect...

17 Dec 20251h 12min

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