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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
Episode 43, presented by Grow with Google: Cécile Kyenge — Harassment investigation — Winking Macron
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 — and what she wants the EU institutions to do to fo...
19 Apr 201835min
Episode 42: The Orbán effect — Mr. Data Protection — Harassment at EU gender equality agency
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 Orbán in Hungary will impact media freedom in Euro...
12 Apr 201832min
Episode 41: Bill Gates — Judging junkets — Greek MEPs' special stopover
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is this week’s main guest. He talks to Ryan Heath about the work of his foundations, the next EU budget and the Oxfam scandal. And we talk to Poli...
5 Apr 201836min
