EU Scream is a podcast based in Brussels. EU Scream was set up in 2018 by Tom Brookes from the

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and by

James Kanter James Kanter is an American and British journalist based in Brussels. Kanter helped establish the first independent newspaper in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge rule, The Cambodia Daily, where he served as editor in chief from 1995 ...

from ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

''. James Kanter had left the New York Times before the launch of EU Scream. EU Scream's episodes consist of interviews with European politicians, journalists, academics, activists and representatives of the civil society. The interviews often include personal aspects of the life of European politicians, for example the experience of being bullying at school shared on EU Scream by the

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Frans Timmermans. The Swedish European Commissioner

Ylva Johansson Ylva Julia Margareta Johansson (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Home Affairs since 2019. She previously served in the government of Sweden as Minister for Schools from 1994 to 199 ...

when discussing her new immigration policy proposal on EU Scream, explained that the question was personal to her because her sister had been adopted from Korea. The economist Barry Eichengreen discussed on EU Scream his personal family history with populism. The journalist and human rights activist Maris Hellrand explained on EU Scream how she staged the very first protest against the

Conservative People's Party of Estonia The Conservative People's Party of Estonia ( et, Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond, EKRE) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Estonia. It is currently led by Martin Helme. It was founded in March 2012, with th ...

government. The podcast denounced the authoritarian threat to civil liberties in Europe in the context of the

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. EU Scream is a non-for-profit organization and hosts events on European policy and democracy, including on questions of

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