Can Anyone Stop the EU Commission? I MCC Brussels Podcast

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The episode discusses the transformation of the European Commission and recent proposals to address its overreach.

The European Commission has mutated from a body of cooperation into a monster that even its own founders no longer recognise. Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by Carl Deconinck of the Brussels Signal and MCC Brussels’ Richard Schenk to discuss a week of institutional overreach in the European capital. They break down the flurry of proposals to rein in Ursula von der Leyen, the prospect of "climate lockdowns" as energy prices soar, and the plans for an eye-watering €2 trillion EU budget. Taming t...

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Reynolds

Guests: Carl Deconinck, Richard Schenk

Topics covered

• EU Commission
• institutional overreach
• climate lockdowns
• energy prices
• EU budget

Keywords

• European Commission
• Ursula von der Leyen
• climate lockdowns
• EU budget
• institutional overreach

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Organizations: European Commission, Brussels Signal, EU

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