Brussels Signal
👉🏼 Is Europe facing a de-population crisis?
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- 👉🏼 Is Europe facing a de-population crisis?
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- What’s the solution? 🤔
#europe #eu #policy #depopulationcrisis #news #interview #immigration
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- We need more 'legal' immigration says Tilly Metz MEP
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- #policy #europe #immigration #brussels #eu
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- Brussels Signal Interview: Green Euro MP Tilly Metz
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- 41:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Green Euro MP Tilly Metz came to the Brussels Signal studio to push her ideas for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The interview also touches on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, immigration, the Ukraine War and the future of Europe. #eu #immigration #news #interview
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- Is Brussels waging a vendetta against US big tech?
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- #tech #brussels #policy #eu #apple #news #interview
Is Brussels waging a vendetta against US big tech?
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- Spain's controversial amnesty law for Catalan separatists has been approved
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- #Spain #amnesty #separatists #policy #news
Spain's controversial amnesty law for Catalan separatists has been approved
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- Where are Europe's tech giants?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "Europe really hasn't been as big of a player in this market as the other world superpowers."
Our Head of News Justin Stares speaks to tech correspondent Peter Caddle about the EU's desire to regulate big tech and its recent targeting of Apple.
Full interview 👉🏼 https://buff.ly/3VnqyOU
#technology #apple #interview #news #brussels #policy
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- Why is Brussels after Apple?
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- 28:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Brussels Signal's Head of News Justin Stares sits down with tech correspondent Peter Caddle to discuss the EU's recent targeting of Apple. What is behind the EC's €1.8bn fine? How does this all play into Europe's increasing desire to regulate big tech?
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- Russia's Vladimir Putin wins landslide presidential election
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- 0:18
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Russia's Vladimir Putin has been proclaimed the winner of the country's presidential election with 87.97% of the vote.
#putin #elections #policy #news #breakingnews #russia #brussels
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- 'We won't kneel!' Portugal's victorious Chega party talks tough on Brussels
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Portugal's hard-right party Chega has emerged as the big winner in elections.
Although it is not yet known who will be part of the coalition in the next government, Chega's leader says that if it enters government it will be much tougher on Brussels and will also veto the entry of Brazil's left-wing president Lula. A speech by Chega's leader has gone viral in both Spanish and Portuguese. #portugal #europe
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- Eating snails at Carnival in Belgium
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Justin Stares travels to Wavre in southern Belgium to taste the snails and fight off the confetti #carnival #belgium
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- LEAK: UNRWA admits ‘munitions’ were cached in its Gaza facilities
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Brussels Signal has received a leaked document that indicates UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East – fears “munitions” have been stored on its premises in Gaza by armed groups.
Read more at https://buff.ly/3IrZN4u
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- Brussels Burns As Farm Protests Return To EU Capital
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Brussels Signal reporters were on the ground at the farmers' protests in the de facto EU capital of Brussels on February 26 as agricultural workers demonstrated against the EU's green agenda. Here's what they saw.
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- Brussels Burns As Farm Protests Return To EU Capital
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- 4:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Brussels Signal reporters were on the ground at the farmers' protests in the de facto EU capital of Brussels on February 26 as agricultural workers demonstrated against the EU's green agenda. Here's what they saw.
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- 'No joining ECR until you change policy on Ukraine', Czech MEP tells Orbán
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "Until you change this policy, you can't expect us to welcome you into our family."
Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra tells Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán he must change his attitude towards Ukraine before his party can join the ECR group.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/48t2vRE
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- Europe needs more children and less immigration, says Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Europeans must stop outsourcing reproduction to immigrants and start having more children, Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra tells our Head of News Justin Stares in an exclusive interview.
Watch the full exchange at https://buff.ly/48t2vRE
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- 'Europe must pay more to defend itself', says Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The transatlantic bond is good for both Europe and the United States but 'the fact is that Europe must deliver more" on defence, says Czech MEP Alexandr Vondra.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/48t2vRE
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- Russia has failed to protect Armenian civilians, says Armenian ambassador Tigran Balayan
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "Russian peacekeepers had a mandate to protect the Armenian civilian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. They have failed," says Tigran Balayan, Armenia’s ambassador to the EU.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/3OOo34q
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- Azerbaijan does not want peace, says Armenian ambassador Tigran Balayan
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "We clearly see that Azerbaijan has an intention not to end the conflict with Armenia," says Tigran Balayan, Ambassador of Armenia to the EU, in an exclusive interview with our Head of News Justin Stares.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/3OOo34q.
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- The EU Green Deal is 'against our nature'. In Interview: Czech Euro MP Alexandr Vondra
- Runtime
- 43:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Alexandr Vondra, a senior member of the European Conservative (ECR) group in the European Parliament, comes to the Brussels Signal studio to talk about the Ukraine war, the Green Deal and a possible second Trump presidency. Interview by Justin Stares. #ukrainewar #donaldtrump #greendeal
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- Azerbaijan 'has no interest in peace': Armenia
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- 40:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Azerbaijan is more interested in continuing conflict than searching for peace, according to Tigran Balayan, Armenia's ambassador to the EU. He came to the Brussels Signal studio to give his country's analysis of the recent deadly border clash and to rebut claims made by the Azerbaijani Government. Interview by Justin Stares. #azerbaijan #armenia
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- Doomberg: Ukraine is on the back foot and Germany is spiralling into recession. These are facts!
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ukraine is on the back foot and Germany is spiralling towards a political and economic crisis, and those with expertise willing to point this out get shouted down because it goes against what people want to happen, Doomberg experts tell Brussels Signal.
Watch the full podcast at https://buff.ly/3T45mMA
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- Doomberg: Why the US economy is more resilient than Europe's
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The energy experts at Doomberg explain why the US economy is more resilient than Europe's.
Watch the full podcast here: https://buff.ly/3T45mMA
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- Sanctions and Energy with Doomberg
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- 45:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the second episode of the Brussels Signal Podcast Ralph Schoellhammer speaks with the smartest chicken there is: Behind the Green Chicken hides the outstanding team of Doomberg – a group of experts on everything from economics to commodities to energy. In this episode we will be talking about whether the world has an “energy blind spot,” why the sanctions on Russia failed and what could have been done different, and what the future of commodity and energy markets is going to look like.
Doomberg started in May of 2021 to highlight the fundamentals missing from many economic and policy decisions, and it quickly grew to be the most widely read finance newsletters on Substack (https://doomberg.substack.com/about). Their substack is written with wit&passion without ever being silly and the content is borne out of the team’s deep experience in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences.
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- Is the EU's digital enforcer telling the whole truth about the Brussels free speech clampdown?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- European Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU's new Digital Services Act is not about restricting free speech but monitoring and rooting out disinformation, leading Justin Stares to ask: "Who is monitoring the European Commission?"
Watch the full video at https://buff.ly/3utJpgr
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- Explaining the differences between media regulation in Continental Europe and the US and UK
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 📽️ "Continental Europeans are more prepared to have the government get involved in media regulation than we would be in the UK and the US."
Our Head of News Justin Stares explains what is really going on in the corridors of power in Brussels amid attempts to clamp down on free speech.
Watch the full video at https://buff.ly/3utJpgr
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- EU observation mission is not helping to restore confidence between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elchin Amirbayov, the envoy of Azerbaijan's President Aliyev, expresses to Brussels Signal his concerns over an EU observation mission that he believes is doing more harm than good in restoring diplomatic confidence between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/3UGYkyy
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- We want disagreements with Armenia to be resolved diplomatically, says Elchin Amirbayov
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elchin Amirbayov, the envoy of Azerbaijan's President Aliyev, says he hopes the latest incident on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is an isolated one and that disagreements can be resolved through diplomatic channels.
Watch the full interview at https://buff.ly/3UGYkyy
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- Armenia 'violated the ceasefire,' senior Azerbaijani official tells Brussels Signal
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elchin Amirbayov, envoy of Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev, tells Brussels Signal that Armenia has "violated the ceasefire" between the two nations after one of its snipers "heavily wounded" an Azerbaijani border guard.
Watch the whole interview at https://buff.ly/3UGYkyy
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- 'Don't call AfD voters disgusting and expect them to vote for you!' Katja Hoyer tells German elites
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Historian Katja Hoyer warns Germany's mainstream parties that their demonisation of AfD voters will backfire.
Catch the full video at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/germany-could-be-ungovernable-with-or-without-the-afd-in-power-in-interview-historian-katja-hoyer/
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- We don't want war! says Azerbaijan President's envoy
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- 32:34
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Elchin Amirbayov, envoy of Azerbaijan's President Aliyev, rejects EU claims that his country is eyeing territory in neighbouring Armenia after border clashes led to at least four deaths. He came to the Brussels Signal studio to ram home his point. Interview by Justin Stares #azerbaijan #armenia
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- Germany risks becoming ungovernable — with or without the AfD, warns historian Katja Hoyer
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Keeping the AfD out of power via a grand coalition could result in a return to weak, unstable Weimar Republic-style governments, Katja Hoyer, an academic of East German origin, tells Justin Stares.
Watch the full interview at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/germany-could-be-ungovernable-with-or-without-the-afd-in-power-in-interview-historian-katja-hoyer/
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- Germany's demonisation of AfD voters will backfire, warns historian Katja Hoyer
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "You can't stand there and tell these people that they're disgusting and then expect them to vote for you!"
Historian Katja Hoyer warns Germany's mainstream parties that their demonisation of AfD voters will backfire.
Catch the full video at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/germany-could-be-ungovernable-with-or-without-the-afd-in-power-in-interview-historian-katja-hoyer/
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- Understanding the EU Power Game
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- 11:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Understanding the EU is easy if you reduce everything to a power struggle, says Justin Stares, Brussels Signal's Head of News. Using plans to clamp down on free speech as an example, Justin cuts through the jargon and explains what is really going on the corridors of power in Brussels.
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- Germany could be ungovernable with or without the AfD in power. In Interview: historian Katja Hoyer
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- 34:08
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Keeping the AfD out of power via a grand coalition could result in a return to weak, unstable Weimar Republic-style governments, Katja Hoyer, an academic of East German origin, tells Justin Stares
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- Batya Ungar-Sargon: 'In 10 years, people won't be able to find anyone to date!'
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the first episode of our new podcast, U.S. author and Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses the disastrous consequences of society's "war against masculinity."
Watch the full episode at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/brussels-signal-podcast-episode-1-class-wars-or-culture-wars-with-batya-ungar-sargon/
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- Batya Ungar Sargon: U.S. experts don't understand why the American electorate no longer trusts them
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "The U.S. expert class expects the American electorate to follow along and simply co-sign their own descent into deaths of despair," says U.S. author and Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon in the first episode of our new podcast.
Catch the full video here: https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/brussels-signal-podcast-episode-1-class-wars-or-culture-wars-with-batya-ungar-sargon/
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- Population replacement is a reality in Belgium, says Vlaams Belang's Tom Van Grieken
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In an interview with Brussels Signal, Vlaams Belang's Tom Van Grieken says that while the "Great Replacement" isn't some evil master plan, it is a reality when surveying the streets of Belgium.
Catch the full interview at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/revealed-the-plan-to-end-belgium-flemish-interest-leader-tom-van-grieken-in-interview/
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- 'No mass migration and haters of Western society should leave,' says Vlaams Belang's Tom Van Grieken
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Vlaams Belang leader Tom Van Grieken says his party wants to stop mass migration into Flanders but stops short of advocating forced remigration — save for those who refuse to embrace Western customs.
Catch the whole interview here: https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/revealed-the-plan-to-end-belgium-flemish-interest-leader-tom-van-grieken-in-interview/
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- Brussels Signal Podcast: Episode 1, Class Wars or Culture Wars? with Batya Ungar-Sargon
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- 39:34
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the first episode of the Brussels Signal Podcast, our columnist Ralph Schoellhammer interviews Batya Ungar-Sargon. Ms Sargon is deputy opinion editor for Newsweek and columnist for Compact magazine. She is a regular commentator on American and international media. The wide-raging conversation ranges over the appeal of Donald Trump, what makes the working class the working class, anti-Semitism in the West, and what's happening on college campuses.
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- 'The end of Belgium is nigh,' says Flemish Interest leader Tom Van Grieken
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Vlaams Belang Chairman Tom Van Grieken believes the end of Belgium is "nigh" and explains his plan to bring greater sovereignty to the Flemish Region.
Catch the full video at https://buff.ly/3StPnWx
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- Revealed: the plan to end Belgium. Flemish Interest leader Tom Van Grieken In Interview
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- 28:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Flemish Interest, which seeks the end of Belgium and the creation of a Flemish state, is set to become the country's largest party after this year's elections. Leader Tom Van Grieken came to the Brussels Signal studio to talk to Justin Stares.
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- Ursula von der Leyen should be "put back in her office," says Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Charles Michel has been a "very poor" European Council president and Ursula von der Leyen should be "put back in her office," Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells us in an exclusive interview.
Catch the whole video at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/ursula-von-der-leyen-should-be-put-back-in-her-office-in-interview-euro-mp-michiel-hoogeveen/
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- Digital Euro is a "very bad idea," says Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The digital Euro is a "very bad idea" and is "all about power," Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells our Head of News Justin Stares.
Catch the full interview at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/ursula-von-der-leyen-should-be-put-back-in-her-office-in-interview-euro-mp-michiel-hoogeveen/
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- Sanctions don't work, Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells Brussels Signal
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Sanctions don't work and only give legitimacy to the claims of unscrupulous governments that the West are the "bad guys," Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells Brussels Signal.
Watch the full interview here: https://buff.ly/49jhnTG
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- Give the Dutch people Prime Minister Geert Wilders, Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells Brussels Signal
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "The Dutch people have spoken. When the people want Prime Minister Geert, give the people Prime Minister Geert! Let him try and if he fails he fails," Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen tells Brussels Signal.
Watch the full interview here: https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/ursula-von-der-leyen-should-be-put-back-in-her-office-in-interview-euro-mp-michiel-hoogeveen/
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- Irish farmers join EU-wide protests against green rules
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Farmers in Ireland held demonstrations across the country on Thursday evening in solidarity with those protesting in mainland Europe.
Hear from the farmers themselves why they're taking to the streets.
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- 'Ursula von der Leyen should be put back in her office': In Interview, Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen
- Runtime
- 41:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Dutch Euro MP Michiel Hoogeveen comes to the Brussels Signal studio to talk with Justin Stares about nuclear energy, sanctions, the Ukraine war and free speech. He has some harsh criticism for EC President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel.
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- Farmers protests erupt in Brussels
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- European farmers rolled into Brussels on Thursday to continue protests being witnessed across the EU in recent weeks.
The demonstrations coincided with a key European Council meeting.
Our reporters were on the ground throughout the morning. Here's what we saw.
Read more at https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/farmers-bring-eu-quarter-to-a-standstill/
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- Farmers protest outside the European Parliament in Brussels
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Farmers brought the EU quarter in Brussels to a standstill on Feb 1. They burned tyres outside the European Parliament building. Brussels Signal head of News Justin Stares went to talk to them.
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- 'EU Heroes': The Founding Father Who Allegedly Had Sordid Affair With Secretary
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- EU 'founding father' Robert Schuman is on his way to becoming a saint, but our Head of News Justin Stares has an anecdote that suggests he wasn't holier-than-thou.
Watch the full video at https://buff.ly/3Ul2oUG

