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MCC Brussels Podcast
EU Chat Control: Surveillance Masquerading as Security
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This week, Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and Pieter Cleppe to tackle the EU’s revived chat control plan, the cold shower of COP30, and yet another Brussels values crusade against Hungary.
Chat Control is back
The Commission has quietly revived proposals that would let authorities peer into your private messages. Encryption is being undermined and platforms are threatened with liability until they police speech for the EU. It is the surveillance state in all but name.
COP30 ends in embarrassment
Europe’s leaders flew to Brazil to chant green slogans while the continent slides into deindustrialisation. China and India continue to raise emissions. The US has walked away. The EU keeps crippling its own industries and calls it leadership. Even developing nations pushed back against the Commission’s eco-fantasies.
Another attack on Hungary
The Parliament returns to its favourite ritual. A new “rule of law” report built by activist NGOs and rubber-stamped by MEPs claims Hungary has violated EU values once again. As always, the target is national sovereignty and any government that refuses Brussels’ ideological line.
Europe’s institutions are acting without restraint.
From privacy to energy to democracy, this episode shows the scale of the challenge and the opportunity for a very different Europe.
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