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Today, Europe stands at a critical juncture. Policymakers in Brussels are reconsidering how competition laws are interpreted, enforced, and reshaped. Amid landmark investigations and fines targeting tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Amazon, what will be Europe's next move? Are agriculture, banking, pharmaceuticals, or other major industries poised for new regulatory scrutiny? Can the EU courts reshape enforcement, or will regulatory ambitions face unexpected hurdles? Hosted by Javier Espinoza, The Brussels Beat delivers insightful conversations with leading European antitrust experts, policymakers, legal analysts, and business leaders. Powered by rigorous investigative journalism and incisive analysis, Javier and his guests delve deep into Europe's evolving approach to monopoly power. This podcast is essential listening for executives, policymakers, legal professionals, and anyone interested in understanding Europe's strategic stance on antitrust issues, exploring the comp
The Capitol Forum hosts The Brussels Beat, a news show with 16 episodes published.
In this episode of the Brussels Beat, Javier Espinoza speaks with Werner Stengg, a member of the European Union's tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen’s cabinet, and his fifteen year old son Jakob, with whom he has co-autho
In this episode of The Brussels Beat, Javier Espinoza speaks with Teresa Ribera, the EU commissioner in charge of competition policy, about what to expect in the European Commission’s revamped merger guidelines and tensi
In this episode of The Brussels Beat, Javier Espinoza speaks with Benoît Cœuré, president of France’s competition authority, about growing tensions between EU ambitions for European companies to scale up and member state
In this episode, The Capitol Forum's Europe Executive Editor Javier Espinoza sits down with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel to pull back the curtain on the shifting landscape of global travel. In this conversation they discu
The head of Spain's competition watchdog, Cani Fernández, sees room for national social media bans in the European Union. In an interview with The Capitol Forum, Fernandez who is president of the National Commission for
Why is the European tech sector struggling compared to the Chinese and American ones? Nadia Calvino, the influential president of the European Investment Bank, has a bold plan to invest heavily in computing infrastructur
Competition policy is not a silver bullet, according to Portugal's competition chief Nuno Cunha Rodrigues. In this interview with The Capitol Forum's Javier Espinoza, Rodrigues outlines why the EU and Portugal need a mor
Can the European Union create a coalition to build a competitive tech sector? In today’s episode of Brussels Beat Javier Espinoza sits down with Member of European Parliament Eva Maydell to discuss the E.U. and European
Is Google’s ad tech empire too powerful to regulate—or just powerful enough to break up? In this wide-ranging interview, Javier Espinoza (Europe Executive Editor at The Capitol Forum) speaks with Damien Geradin, one of t
In a wide-ranging conversation, Olivier Guersent—former Director-General for Competition at the European Commission—joins Javier Espinoza, Europe Executive Editor at The Capitol Forum and host of The Brussels Beat, to re
This week, Javier Espinoza, Europe Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum, speaks with Martijn Snoep, head of the Dutch Competition Authority, about the evolving landscape of antitrust enforcement in Europe. Snoep emphasi
An exclusive interview with Margrethe Vestager, the former EU Antitrust Chief addressed concerns about a potential shift in U.S.- EU relations with the election of President Donald Trump. The interview is the first of a
In this episode of The Brussels Beat, EU Executive Editor Javier Espinoza sits down with Enrico Letta—former Italian Prime Minister and author of the landmark report on the future of the Single Market—for a sweeping disc
As transatlantic tensions rise and global markets fracture under the weight of tariffs and techno-nationalism, Europe finds itself at a crossroads. In this wide-ranging conversation, Andreas Schwab, senior MEP and archit
As the European Union imposes its first fines under the landmark Digital Markets Act, former Commissioner Thierry Breton joins The Brussels Beat for his first Brussels interview since leaving office. Far from declaring v
In this exclusive interview, Capitol Forum’s Javier Espinoza sits down with Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, to talk climate ambition, competition policy, and the future of Europe’s gre
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