EU Watchdog Radio
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -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 activities in Brussels. Whether it be steps to increase transparency of lobbies in the EU or how to tackle public investment in a way that works for everyone. We explore it all, right here at EU Watchdog Radio!
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Episode 6: In the name of innovation
June 02, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and Counter Balance. In the sixth episode Martin Pigeon, researcher and campaigner at CEO and Marine Ejuryan, Advocacy manager at ‘Global Health Advocates’ (GHA) explain the content of two in-depth and damning reports they just published; These reports are about how, in the name of innovation, industrial lobbies have managed to control the use of at least 3.7 billion of euro in European public research fu...
Episode 5: Can we trust financial institutions to manage climate change?
May 01, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Counter Balance and CEO. In the fifth episode, we talk with two experts from civil society organisations about the role of big financial institutions or companies in the economic recovery and Green Deal. Red line: there is enough money to finance climate proof and socially just change, but we need more scrutiny of how and where that money is being used. Xavier Sol from Counter Balance talks about the problems the European Investment Bank ...
Episode 5: Can we trust financial institutions to manage climate change?
May 01, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Counter Balance and CEO. In the fifth episode, we talk with two experts from civil society organisations about the role of big financial institutions or companies in the economic recovery and Green Deal. Red line: there is enough money to finance climate proof and socially just change, but we need more scrutiny of how and where that money is being used. Xavier Sol from Counter Balance talks about the problems the European Investment Bank ...
Episode 4: Good ways out of the corona crisis?
April 10, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Counter Balance and CEO. In the fourth episode, we talk with five experts from civil society organisations about the Covid-19 crisis. The virus as an X-ray: it brings various societal problems that already existed to light. Laura Ulman from Greenpeace, Olivier Hoedeman and Margarida Silva from CEO, Xavier Sol from Counter Balance and Tove Maria Ryding from Eurodad all highlight a different aspect of the unprecedented crisis that we are ...
Episode 3: Logistics of globalisation - is this the world we want?
March 20, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn the third episode of EU Watchdog Radio Nicholas Hildyard, UK based researcher and activist of the NGO, The Corner House, gives some fascinating insights in the world of logistics. A world that we all benefit from, but know very little about. Hildyard, who just published a new report with Counter Balance, states that we are all being 'logisticized' without even realizing it. The relatively new economic sector called 'logistics management' is now one of the biggest employers globally, spo...
Episode 2: EU/US Trade Deal VS Green Deal
March 05, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this second episode Nina Holland and Kenneth Haar, both researchers from the Brussels-based lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), analyze the ongoing negotiations on a EU-US trade deal and what impact this ‘TTIP-light’ could have on the so called European Green Deal. This Green Deal is the alpha and omega of the new European Commission under president Ursula von der Leyen, that promises to EU citizens for it to be an ambitious package of new policies to steer various economic...
Episode 2: Corporate Europe Observatory - EU/US Trade Deal VS Green Deal
March 05, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this second episode Nina Holland and Kenneth Haar, both researchers from the Brussels-based lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), analyze the ongoing negotiations on a EU-US trade deal and what impact this ‘TTIP-light’ could have on the so called European Green Deal. This Green Deal is the alpha and omega of the new European Commission under president Ursula von der Leyen, that promises to EU citizens for it to be an ambitious package of new policies to steer various economic...
Episode 1: Counter Balance - Challenging Public Investment Banks
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by two Brussels based organisations Counter Balance (CB) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). In the very first episode Xavier Sol of Counter Balance discusses how the European Union is planning to finance the Green Deal and the role played by the transformation of the European Investment Bank (EIB) into the so-called ‘EU Climate Bank’. Is this really a game changer? How can public funds better be controlled so that taxpayers money does n...
Episode 1: Challenging Public Investment Banks
February 12, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBEU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by two Brussels based organisations Counter Balance (CB) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). In the very first episode Xavier Sol of Counter Balance discusses how the European Union is planning to finance the Green Deal and the role played by the transformation of the European Investment Bank (EIB) into the so-called ‘EU Climate Bank’. Is this really a game changer? How can public funds better be controlled so that taxpayers money does n...