MCC Brussels Podcast

In this MCC Brussels Deep Dive, John O’Brien speaks to Professor Samuele Furfari, one of Europe’s most experienced voices on energy policy. Furfari spent decades inside the European Commission working on energy and sustainable development. His warning is blunt: Europe’s energy crisis did not begin with the war in Ukraine. It began when EU policymakers abandoned the old priority of cheap, abundant and secure energy, and replaced it with a decarbonisation-first agenda. For decades, European ene...

While the world burns, the technocrats are busy drafting press releases for a Monday that never comes. Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by MCC’s Richard Schenk and Jerzy Kwaśniewski (President of the Ordo Iuris Institute) to expose the reality of a Europe that has become a mere bystander to history. We’re cutting through the mealy-mouthed rhetoric in this week’s podcast: from the EU's total irrelevance in the Iran crisis, to the "SAFE" programme’s debt-trap for national sovereignty, and the sham...

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...

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...