MCC Brussels Podcast
Discussions, event recordings, and updates from the team at MCC Brussels – the home for genuine policy deliberation about the EU and an in-depth exploration of the key issues facing Europeans.
Episodes
91 episodes
The Soft Power Delusion: Europe’s Arctic Wake-Up Call
When the world gets serious, the Berlaymont gets nervous.Greenland gets leaned on, farmers get sold out, and Hungary gets “managed” like a hostile province.John O’Brien sits down with Richard Schenk and Agnieszka Kolek to ...
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The EU’s Quiet Power Grab | Deep Dive
Brussels insists it only acts where member states allow it. MCC Brussel's Deputy Research Director Philip Siegert shows that is simply untrue. h exists down with John O'Brien to talk about his latest report: Empire of Law: Pushing ...
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Gender Studies vs Reality: The Flat-Earth branch of Academia | Deep Dive
This week, MCC Brussels’ John O’Brien sits down with Leonardo Orlando. He is an evolutionary psychologist, co-author of Sex, Science and Censure, and one of the harshest critics of gender ideology in Europe.Orlando makes a simple ...
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2025: The year the people found their voice | MCC Brussels Christmas Special
This week, Jacob Reynolds is joined by Pieter Cleppe and Anthony Gilland to review 2025 – the populist surge, the elite fightback on speech and elections, and Europe’s growing weakness from Washington to Ukraine.Populists surge – and th...
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Pay €20,000 or Accept Migrants – EU ‘Solidarity’ Pact
This week, Jacob Reynolds is joined by Philipp Siegert, Deputy Research Director at MCC Brussels, to unpack the EU’s migration pact blow-up, a College of Europe fraud probe, and the vandalism of Brussels’ Grand Place nativity scene.
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Denmark’s Immigration Reality: Control, Integration, and the Nation-State | Deep Dive
Denmark isn’t “closed.” It’s controlled.In this Deep Dive, MCC Brussels’ John O’Brien sits down with Danish MEP Anders Vistisen from the Danish People's Party, to dissect the one European immigration model that actually works. ...
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Elon Musk vs the Eurocrats | MCC Brussels Podcast
This week, Jacob Reynolds is joined by Agnieszka Kolek and Richard Schenk to break down Brussels’ assault on X, Washington’s blunt verdict on Europe’s decline, and the Commission’s extraordinary pressure campaign against Belgium over frozen Rus...
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Posie Parker - The War Against Women
The gender lobby insists debate is forbidden. Institutions rewrite language. Women’s prisons, refuges and schools are paying the price - and Europe’s political class looks the other way.In this Deep Dive, John O’Brien sits down wi...
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EU Chat Control: Surveillance Masquerading as Security
Register now for Europe’s most important conservative gathering: Battle for the Soul of Europe — 3–4 December in Brussels: https://soulofeurope.coThis week, Jacob Reynolds is joined by Ric...
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How COP and green ideology broke the Western World | Former EU Commission energy official
For 30 years, COP summits have promised salvation and delivered nothing but slogans, moral posturing and declining European industry. At COP30, the same ritual repeats: frightened rhetoric, impossible targets, and yet more pressure on ordinary ...
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The EU’s desperate search for cash for Ukraine | MCC Brussels Podcast
Register now for Europe’s most important conservative gathering: Battle for the Soul of Europe — 3–4 December in Brussels: https://soulofeurope.coEurope Runs Out of Money for Ukraine, V4 Regroups, and the Parliament Tries to Police Demo...
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From Fields to Fury: The EU’s War on Farmers
Register here for the definitive conservative intellectual event of the year:👉 https://soulofeurope.coHost John O’Brien is joined by Herman Kelly, President of the Irish Freedom Party, and Richard Schenk of MCC Brussels to discuss:<...
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Mamdani and the Islamo–Left Alliance
Register here for the definitive conservative intellectual event of the year: https://soulofeurope.coHost Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and António Tânger Corrêa, Vice-President of Portugal’s Chegaand MEP in the European Pa...
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Ireland is ready for a political earthquake
Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by sociologist and MCC Brussels Executive Director Frank Furedi, and Miguel Toledano, political adviser for Vox in the Patriots for Europe, to ask what happens when Europe’s leaders lose their sense of right and wr...
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Is peace in Ukraine even possible? | MCC Brussels Podcast
Jacob Reynolds is joined by executive director Frank Furedi and Brussels Signal’s Carl Deconinck to dissect a week where Europe’s self-image met reality – from a mooted Trump–Putin peace summit in Budapest to Britain’s two-tier policing and Bru...
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Europe's Grand Migration Delusion | MCC Brussels Podcast
Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and Daria Malec to unpick Europe’s latest delusions from the migration pact to the Omnibus farce. THE MIGRATION PACT DELUSIONThe EU has its plan to pretend it takes migration seriously...
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Czechia’s Voters Just Sent Brussels a Message
A big election victory for the patriotic candidate in Czechia sends a message to Brussels, Macron is looking more under threat than ever following another government collapse, and the EU Parliament just handed immunity to an Antifa activist acc...
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The EU’s “foreign interference” obsession
In this week’s MCC Brussels podcast Jacob Reynolds is joined by Frank Furedi and Richard Schenk to unpack how the EU censors and bullies its way through the continent.Moldova’s elections: Brussels hails a “pro-EU victory” — but on...
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Should Governments ban Antifa?
Would banning Antifa risk crushing free speech?How Macron rewards terrorists while chasing applause.Why Hamas thrives in the court of global opinion.The Brussels bubble’s favourite lie: “Trump imported polarisation”.This wee...
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Deep Dive - Charlie Kirk: when hate becomes deadly and polarisation fatal
In this urgent deep dive, John O'Brien sits down with Frank Furedi to discuss the rise of a hate-fuelled polarisation where politics is no longer about disagreement, but the desire to destroy. The appalling assassination of Kirk - ...
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After Kirk, free speech is truly on the line | Italy on the frontline of the migrant crisis
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we expose the hard reality of the free speech crisis; explore how the EU is directly attacking speech with the DSA; and look at why Italy’s migration emergency is the test case no one in European politic...
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Ursula Blames the World and Ignores Brussels’ Failures
This week: Ursula von der Leyen tries to tighten her grip on Brussels, Macron loses control of France, and Mario Draghi is crowned Europe’s next saviour.Jacob Reynolds, Head of Policy at MCC Brussels, is joined by Pieter Cleppe (Editor,...
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Why the EU should NEVER have an army | NATO, Patriotism & the hollow flag | Deep Dives
What happens when a union built on bureaucracy tries to talk tough? In this episode of Deep Dives, Professor Bill Durodié dismantles the fantasy at the heart of EU defence policy. His report, The Hollow Flag, exposes the widening gulf between s...
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How the EU Spent €650 Million to Define What You Can Say | MCC Brussels Deep Dive
In this episode of MCC Deep Dives, Dr Norman Lewis joins John O’Brien to discuss his new report Manufacturing Misinformation.The European Commission claims it is protecting “digital safety” and “media responsibility”. In truth, as Lewis...
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