Left Takes on the EU

Jun 14 2023 10 ep. 16 mins 16

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It’s hard to understand & keep up with what's going on in EU politics. Every month, Left Takes on the EU brings you insights from The Left in the European Parliament about what the hell is going on in Brussels.

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Listen now to Look Left -EU Politics under the Lens, the new podcast by The Left in the European Parliament:

Power to the People

Jul 15 2022 23 mins

The energy model in Europe has been defined by decades of liberalisation and privatisation. The marginalist pricing model allows big energy companies to sell cheap renewable energy at the price of expensive fossil fuels such as gas and coal, giving rise to fluctuations and speculation with all kinds of windfall profits. While people in Europe struggle to make ends meet and pay unpr

Mind the gap

Apr 30 2022 13 mins

More and more Europeans struggle to make the ends meet, despite earning a salary. The root of the problem is inequality. Europeans are more unequal today than they were four decades ago. Paid holidays, sick leave, unemployment, social benefits, healthcare... None of the rights that we enjoy today would exist if it wasn't for workers' activism. Today, more than ever, they cannot be

Hay que cambiarlo todo!

Jan 10 2022 23 mins

For our first episode in Spanish, Marcella Via interviews MEP Sira Rego. Faced with the rise of the extreme right that is building a world made for the privileged, where there is no space for the majority, the role of the left is to raise a dissenting voice to put people and the planet before private profit.It is time to change European institutions from the bottom to build a more

Who's cashing in on EU Border violence?

Dec 17 2021 25 mins

The EU’s current border regime is a profitable business for the European companies cashing in on the militarisation of EU migration policy.Who are the profiteers? Major defence companies which have been among the main beneficiaries of several EU research projects. Companies like Airbus, Thales, Leonardo have been strategically lobbying for the expansion of the defence industry.

The far-right presiding the EU

Nov 08 2021 12 mins

As the coronavirus pandemic took hold, a new right-wing government rose to power in Slovenia. The regime was formed by the Slovenian Democratic Party, led by Janez Janša, a politician known for corruption controversies, strange sources of wealth, and attacks on journalists.

The Real State of the European Union

Oct 05 2021 24 mins

Far from the realities of life and daily struggles of Europeans, the European Commission used the State of the Union to portray an out of touch picture of reality, boasting about its “achievements” and lamenting shortcomings as if they’re by accident.Manon Aubry & Martin Schirdewan discuss & analyse her speech and reflect on the present and future of Europe as we brought the

People VS Big Pharma

Jul 16 2021 18 mins

In our third podcast episode we analyse the issues around the development of Covid-19 vaccines over the last year: the lack of transparency, shocking corporate profits, access, intellectual property rights and much more… but ultimately we focus on what we've learned about how people power can deliver change.

Workers' day, every day

Apr 30 2021 10 mins

To mark May 1st international workers’ day, we look at how Europe’s gig economy workers are taking on big tech and fighting for their rights. We talk to platform workers about conditions in the app economy, get a run-down from French MEP Leïla Chaibi on what the EU could do to tackle the problems faced by riders and drivers, and Margarida Silva from Corporate Europe Observator

A Toxic relationship

Jun 18 2021 17 mins

🎙The second episode of Left Takes on the EU is out!In this one we talk about toxic relationships, more specifically about the one the EU has with the Mercosur countries of Latin America and how the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement would feed this circle of poison.We learn how the EU is not only exporting poisonous substances that it has itself banned in Europe, but it is also br