MCC Brussels Podcast

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 th...

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 Agnies...

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 Re...

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 B...

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...

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,...

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 an...

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 b...

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 bo...

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...

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 an...

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 “...

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 institutio...

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 rev...

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, a...

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 l...

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...

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 radica...

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, mur...

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 Brussels’ plan to import North Africa via Erasmus. BUDAPEST PEACE SUMMIT – EUROPE SIDELINED Budapest is on the verge of a historic Trump-Putin summit. The meet...

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 DELUSION The EU has its plan to pretend it takes migration seriously. The essence is that it forces governments to accept quotas or pay cash penalties. They call this "solidarity" - but it amounts to forcing countries to take mig...

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 accused of beating people in the street. Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and Agnieszka Kolek to dissect this weeks political news. CZECH PATRIOTS SA...

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 only after two opposition parties were banned and social media censored.  Foreign interference? Yes, from the EU itself. Drones everywhere: airports shut down, NATO panic...

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 week on the MCC Brussels podcast, Jacob Reynolds is joined by: Luke Gittos, writer and lawyer, and Agnieszka Kolek, head of Cultural Engagement MCC Brussels Together they take...

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 - who was deeply committed to debate and discussion with people he disagreed with - shows the grim reality of a hateful obsession with branding those we disagree wit...