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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.
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Viktor Orbán is once again enemy number one in Brussels. This time, it’s because he has promised to halt EU aid to Ukraine until oil starts flowing again through a pipeline controlled by Ukraine. Is this “big bad Orbán” spoiling the EU’s party, or a principled stand for Hungary’s interests at a critical time? Jacob Reynolds, Agnieszka Kolek, and Philipp Siegert talk about Orban's decision on Ukraine aid and the reason behind it, the implications of a US Supreme Court decision on tariffs...
This week, we ask whether anyone in Brussels is really listening to America’s wake-up-call, the chilling impunity of Antifa violence in France, the "Two-Speed" trap of the E6, and the populist earthquake in Japan. Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by Agnieszka Kolek and European Parliament advisor Daria Malec The Rubio Doctrine and Western Decay. The recent intervention by Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference wasn't just a speech; it was a civilisational indictment. While the EU’s...
In this episode we talk about the EU’s cynical anti-American deflection strategy, the regulatory "death-loop" strangling the European economy, the "Poland Playbook" being readied for the Hungarian elections, and the collapse of the Franco-German fighter jet project that turned Connor Allen into the most hated man on French Twitter. Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by MCC’s Agnieszka Kolek and lobbyist Connor Allen, to strip away the spin. The Anti-American Gambit: The "Bruss...
This week, we dismantle a three-pronged assault on the European way of life: leftist politicians who plan to import a new electorate, the EU's sorry dependency on rivals, and plans to further restrict the internet. Host Jacob Reynolds, Head of Policy at MCC Brussels is joined by Angéline Furet MEP of the Patriots for Europe group and France’s Rassemblement National, alongside MCC Brussels Research Fellow Richard Schenk Replacing Citizens? While the mainstream media dismisses the...
In this week’s episode, MCC Brussels tears into Brussels’ trade-deal frenzy from Mercosur to India, the capital’s 600-day political paralysis, and Trump’s Peace Board challenge to the tired old international order. Jacob Reynolds, Head of Policy at MCC Brussels, is joined by Barbara Bonte, Vlaams Belang MEP in the Patriots for Europe group, and Agnieszka Kolek, Head of Cultural Engagement at MCC Brussels. India is the deal dressed up as a geopolitical triumph, the “mother of all trade deals...
In this week’s episode Jacob Reynolds, with Richard Schenk and Carl Deconinck, cuts through the Davos charade, the EU’s flailing response to Trump and Greenland, and Brussels’ latest attempt to muzzle free speech via its crusade against X. 1) Davos / WEF: Davos used to be the annual summit of vague virtue-signalling and lavish self-regard. This year, it looks less like cosplay and more like crisis management. With the UN toothless and the old “dialogue forums” dead, Davos has become one of t...
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 say what Brussels will only ever imply. Greenland and the Comfort Blanket of NATO Greenland isn’t some far-off abstraction. It’s tied to an EU member state, plugged into NATO, and still had to announce—out loud—that it isn’t for sale. The moment pressure comes from inside ...
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 supranationalism beyond democratic legitimacy. For decades, EU institutions have quietly rewritten their own powers; through courts, crises, delegated acts and clever legal gymnastics, creating a system where the centre expands and national democracy s...
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 but devastating point: you can’t understand society if you pretend biology stops at the neck. Yet universities have built entire “gender” departments on the denial of basic human nature. The result? A flat-earth worldview masquerading as scholarship, and an a...
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 the public stops whispering The conversation opens on the mood-shift of 2025: farmer protests across Europe, citizens stepping in where the state won’t (including border pressure), and parents scrutinising what schools are teaching. They run through the elector...
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. Pay up or take migrants The Commission sells the Pact on Migration and Asylum as “solidarity” – but the rollout is exposing open fractures across Europe. The Council is discussing relocation quotas (around 21,000) and a “solidarity contribution” of €20,000 ...
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. Denmark’s approach is blunt, unapologetic, and stubbornly democratic: strict external controls, serious integration demands, honest statistics, and politicians who answer to voters. For decades, Danish governments—left and right—ignored the polite illusions pu...
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 Russian assets. Brussels fines X to tame the last free platform. The Commission has slapped a €120 million penalty on Elon Musk’s platform, dressing it up as “transparency” enforcement. In reality, X is the only major network Brussels cannot control. It a...
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 with Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker), one of the most outspoken defenders of women’s rights, for a blunt, unsparing conversation on how gender ideology captured institutions, intimidated feminists, and erased the very word woman. They discuss: • The moment she ...
Register now for Europe’s most important conservative gathering: Battle for the Soul of Europe — 3–4 December in Brussels: https://soulofeurope.co 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 bei...
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 Europeans to pay for an ideology that refuses to face physics. Jacob Reynolds sits down with Samuele Furfari, engineer, former senior Commission official, and author of The Truth About COPs, 30 Years of Illusions, to dismantle the green mythology that ...
Register now for Europe’s most important conservative gathering: Battle for the Soul of Europe — 3–4 December in Brussels: https://soulofeurope.co Europe Runs Out of Money for Ukraine, V4 Regroups, and the Parliament Tries to Police Democracy The EU’s crazy solution to fund the Ukraine war Brussels is scrambling to fund a war it can no longer afford. With budget deficits rising across Europe, EU leaders are eyeing frozen Russian assets held in Belgium. This move could blow up the Euro...
Register here for the definitive conservative intellectual event of the year: 👉 https://soulofeurope.co Host John O’Brien is joined by Herman Kelly, President of the Irish Freedom Party, and Richard Schenk of MCC Brussels to discuss: 1. The War on Farmers The EU’s new climate law is not about saving the planet, it is about control. A 90% emissions cut by 2040 means mass culls, fertiliser bans and billions in fines. Irish farmers are told to destroy their herds while global corporations coll...
Register here for the definitive conservative intellectual event of the year: https://soulofeurope.co Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and António Tânger Corrêa, Vice-President of Portugal’s Chegaand MEP in the European Parliament, to ask: Has the Western Left become a coalition of contradictions? From New York to The Hague, Europe’s elites are embracing an unholy alliance of radical Islamism and identity politics - an alliance that may already be collapsing under its own hyp...
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 wrong, and why ordinary people are beginning to push back. France: Antifa Attack Mourning Vigil In Nantes, young people held a vigil for 12-year-old Lola, murdered by an Algerian woman. Antifa stormed the event, attacking mourners for daring to speak abo...
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