EU Watchdog Radio is a podcast launched by two Brussels NGO's: Counter Balance and Corporate Europe Observatory. In each episode, we dive deeper into topics that relate to our activities in Brussels. Whether it be steps to increase transparency of lobbies in the EU or how to tackle public investment in a way that works for everyone. We explore it all, right here at EU Watchdog Radio!
EU Watchdog Radio
Claim This Podcastby Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance
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EU Watchdog Radio is a podcast launched by two Brussels NGO's: Counter Balance and Corporate Europe Observatory. In each episode, we dive deeper into topics that relate to our activities in Brussels. Whether it be steps to increase transparency of lobbies in the EU or how to tackle public investment in a way that works for everyone. We explore it all, right here at EU Watchdog Radio!
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
What are Green Public Services and why do we need them?
<p>In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy Officer at Counter Balance, speaks with Frank Vanaerschot, Director at Counter Balance, about their new briefing on green public services. </p><p>As Europe faces rising living costs, energy crisis, and climate breakdown, they discuss how public investment can help deliver affordable housing, clean energy, and accessible public transport while accelerating decarbonisation.</p><p>Check out the briefing: <a href="https://counter-balance.org/publications/briefing/green-public-services-briefing/">https://counter-balance.org/publications/briefing/green-public-services-briefing/</a></p>
May 28, 2026
182 out of 184: This is what corporate capture looks like
<p>We need to talk about what deregulation actually means in Brussels right now.</p><p>It means one commissioner holding 184 meetings with external actors, 182 of them with business groups. It means indigenous Sami reindeer herders in Sweden losing their last migration route to a fast-tracked mine. It means the public funding the polluters' infrastructure while they keep the profits.</p><p>In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Joana from <a href="https://corporateeurope.org/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Corporate Europe Observatory</a> talks to colleagues Kenneth Haar and Rachel Tansey about their two new reports exposing the corporate machinery behind the EU's deregulation agenda — and the communities already bearing the costs.</p><p>This is not simplification. This is corporate capture. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Check out the reports: </strong></p><p>- <a href="https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/what-corporate-capture-looks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">This is what corporate capture looks like!</a></p><p>- <a href="https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Permission to pollute</a></p><p><br></p><p>We're a small, independent organisation. If you can,<strong> </strong><a href="https://corporateeurope.org/en/support-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>support us</strong></a><strong> and help us fight the good fight!</strong></p>
April 30, 2026
When Public Investment Fuels the Arms Race
<p>In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Counter Balance, speaks with Laëtitia Sédou, EU Project Manager at the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT), about how EU public finance is fuelling the militarisation and boosting the global arms race. </p><p>Together, they explore how deregulation is reducing safeguards in favour of the military sector, and how major military companies are gaining access not only to public funding, but even to “sustainable” investment labels.</p>
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