The Brussels Report Podcast

During a panel debate at the Free Market Road Show in Brussels earlier this month, Austrian Member of Parliament Barbara Kolm , Director of the  Austrian Economics Center and former Vice President of the Austrian Central Bank, was one of the guests to discuss the impact of EU regulation and how to rein in the Brussels regulatory machine. The  Free Market Road Show is a series of conferences dedica...

Philip Weiss is the founder of ZN, a digital agency working with companies, political institutions and organizations on how to use the Internet to integrate and transform business and communication. In 2012, he wrote the book ‘ Hyperthinking ’, defining the mindset needed to survive and thrive in the age of networks. Whilst studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, Philip Weiss launch...

During a panel debate at the Free Market Road Show in Brussels earlier this year, Dr. Barbara Kolm , Director of the Austrian Economics Center and former Vice President of the Austrian Central Bank, and Pieter Cleppe , Editor-in-Chief of BrusselsReport.eu , discuss the influence of monetary policy on inflation. The Free Market Road Show is a series of conferences dedicated to free market economics...

Charles H. Dallara is an American banker and the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance, which is a group representing the global financial services industry. He served as the managing director of the Institute of International Finance , Inc. from 1993 to 2013, leading it in its prominent role during the European sovereign debt crisis, including the private sector invol...

Daniel Kral is a Senior Economist within the macroeconomics forecasting division of Oxford Economics. He joined Oxford Economics in April 2021 in London and leads the coverage of the Nordic region. Daniel holds a Master of Research from University College London where his thesis won the Frank Carter prize for the best post-graduate thesis in 2014. Before, he worked at IHS Markit, VEON, RS Consulti...

Mohamed Magdy Farid (Arabic: محمد مجدي فريد, born 18 August 1982) is an Egyptian Classic Liberal politician. He has been a Senator since 2020. He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial and management engineering from October 6 University, and a master's degree in Sustainable development Planning with a specialization in Economic Development from the Egyptian National Planning Institute. H...

M'backé N'diaye holds a degree in law and political science from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He is a specialist in the Sahel region. His work thereby focuses on geopolitics, the history of religions and the Sahel region. He is also a political communications consultant. In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor  ⁠Pieter Cleppe⁠  discus...

Brad Lips is the chief executive officer of Atlas Network , a US non-profit that provides training, networking and grants for libertarian, free-market, and conservative groups around the world. It aims to secure for all individuals the rights to economic and personal freedom, through its global network of strategic partners. Atlas Network was founded in 1981 by Sir Antony Fisher, a British entrepr...

Christopher Snowdon is the head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs . His research focuses on lifestyle freedoms, prohibition and policy-based evidence. He is a regular contributor to the Spectator, Telegraph and Spiked and often appears on TV and radio discussing social and economic issues. Snowdon’s work encompasses a diverse range of topics including ‘sin taxes’, state f...

Rod Richardson is a philanthropist who serves as the President of the Grace Richardson Fund (GRF), which is the leading private foundation pioneering free market climate policy. He is also co-founder/co-chair of the Climate & Freedom International Coalition Meeting, co-facilitated in collaboration with Americans for Tax Reform Foundation/Tholos Foundation.  GRF pioneers new free market solutio...

Martin Kinnunen is a Member of the Swedish Parliament (SD-ECR). He has been a Member of the Riksdag since 2014, elected for the Stockholm constituency since 2018. Before, he was elected for the Gothenburg constituency. He is a member of both the EU Committee and the Environment and Agriculture affairs Committee, and serves as the climate and environmental policy spokesperson for his party. Kinnune...

Dalibor Rohac , originally from Slovakia, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies European political and economic trends, specifically Central and Eastern Europe, the European Union (EU) and the eurozone, US-EU relations, and the post-Communist transitions and backsliding of countries in the former Soviet bloc. He is concurrently a research associate at the...

Elena Leontjeva is the co-founder and President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LMFI). She founded the influential Lithuanian think tank in 1990. She holds degrees in economics, mathematics and programming and has directed research and policy advocacy at the Institute, whilst playing a key role in her country’s transition. Ms. Leontjeva was named by magazine Veidas among the ten personali...

Daniel J. Mitchell is a public policy economist based in Washington D.C. For years, he has been extensively commenting fiscal and budgetary policy in the OECD, having served as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation , as an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and at the Senate Finance Committee, and as a Director of Tax and Budget Policy at Citizens for a Sound Economy. H...

Dr. Björn Peters is a German physicist and energy economist. He is also an investor into the newest generation of nuclear power plants, as co-founder and CFO of Dual Fluid Energy . He heads the research and consulting institute Peters Coll , which he founded, and advises entrepreneurs and politicians. On a voluntary basis, he is a founding member of the Nuclear Pride Coalition as well as a member...

Ronald-Peter (Ronnie) Stöferle is an Austrian Managing Partner and Fund manager at Incrementum AG , based in the Principality of Liechtenstein. The company focusses on asset management and wealth management and is one hundred percent owned by its partners. Ronald manages a fund that invests based on the principles of the Austrian School of Economics. He is the Author of the annual In Gold We Trust...

In this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the tense relationship between the EU and Iran with two eminent experts on the topic: Rebecca Schönenbach , CEO of Veto! For the Rule of Law and expert in extremism and terrorist financing (Part I of the podcast) and Kambiz Ghafouri , Director KGM Media, journalist and expert on Iran domestic and forei...

Matthias Bauer is a German economist and Director at European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a think tank based in Brussels dedicated to supporting free trade. He works on EU and global trade policy with a focus on digital and technology policymaking. In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with...

Charlie Weimers is a Swedish MEP (ECR-SD), elected to the European Parliament since 2019. He serves at the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and is is a substitute member of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation to the U.S. He is the co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Migration Working Group. Before he mo...

Dr. Stephanie Daher is a researcher at the European Foundation for Democracy , where she specializes in researching radicalisation and extremism in EU Member States as well as in MENA countries, with a particular focus on prisons. She has also studied disinformation. She has worked as a research consultant with several European institutions and holds a PhD in Political Science and International Re...

Michiel Hoogeveen is a Dutch Member of European Parliament (JA21-ECR) He started his career in the financial sector and as a freelance North Korea researcher, visiting the country multiple times. In 2019, he was elected to the States of South Holland, and in April2021, he became an MEP. In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the follow...

Hermann Tertsch is a Spanish Member of European Parliament (ECR – Vox), elected in 2019. Before that, he worked as a journalist for about 40 years, amongst others for Spanish press agency EFE, center-left newspaper El País, conservative newspaper ABC, Telemadrid and Radio Nacional de España. In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the f...

Danish investor Jeppe Kirk Bonde is the most copied investor on eToro , a leading investment platform with 27 million users, which enables investors to copy traders automatically. Currently, 25,000 people copy this portfolio, for an amount of more than $73 million. Notably, he has recorded an annual average return of more than 30 percent since 2013, an extraordinary performance, also compared with...

Ladislav Ilčić is a Member of European Parliament for Croatia, sitting with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He is a member of the “Croatian Sovereignists” party, a former member of the Croatian Parliament (2015-2016), special adviser to the ministers of Foreign Affairs (2016-2017) and Culture (2017-2018), and has served as city councilor on the Varaždin City Council (2013-20...

Professor Zdzisław Krasnodębsk i is a Polish sociologist, social philosopher, publicist and professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, for the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He is also an associate professor at the Akademia Ignatianum in Cracow. He has served as a Vice President of the European Parliament an...