MCC Brussels

Europe built one of the great post-war achievements: abundant, affordable food.

But abundance was never automatic.
Covid exposed fragile supply chains. War exposed strategic dependencies. Now drought is exposing the risks of weakening Europe’s own productive capacity.

Food security starts with farmers who can afford to keep farming. Read Richard Schenk in the Brussels Signal right here-

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/europe-made-food-abundant-then-brussels-decided-to-produce-less/

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Abolishing the EU foreign-policy veto won’t create a common strategic interest where none exists.
QMV would simply let a majority impose foreign-policy decisions on countries that may see those decisions as a threat to their own security.
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Europe’s Foreign Policy Veto Is Not a Flaw Abolishing the veto will not create a common strategic interest where none exists. It will merely allow the majority to impose on individual countries decis ...

MUST WATCH THIS WEEKEND -
This summer, the MCC Brussels podcast is doing things a little differently. In a series of more focused conversations, we take a deeper look at some of the big questions shaping Europe.

In this episode, Jacob is joined by Frank Furedi, Executive Director of MCC Brussels and author of Why Borders Matter, to examine what the scenes in Ceuta reveal about Europe’s political relationship with borders.

First, the discussion turns to the invasion of Ceuta and Frank’s argument that it should not be dismissed as an exceptional event. Instead, it offers a dramatic glimpse of the slower migration crisis taking place across Europe every day.

Then Jacob and Frank discuss Sánchez’s migration amnesty, Brussels’ performative politics of border control and the growing pressure that populist parties are placing on governments that previously treated borders as an inconvenience.

Finally, the episode turns to Europe’s reliance on Morocco, Turkey and other third countries to control migration. Frank compares the EU’s strategy to Rome’s decision to outsource its own defence and asks whether Europe can retain its sovereignty while depending upon other states to protect its territory.

Ceuta Exposes Europe’s Border Delusion | MCC Brussels Podcast This summer, the MCC Brussels podcast is doing things a little diff...

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Why I’ll never get tired of talking about trans The spread of gender ideology has exposed the rot in just about every institution that our civilisation depends on.

Brussels wants Europe to achieve ‘technological sovereignty’, reducing its dependence on American and Chinese technology. But what if the entire project is based on a dangerous misunderstanding of how technological power actually works?

Nowhere is Europe’s failure clearer than in artificial intelligence. While American and Chinese companies race ahead in frontier models, chips and computing infrastructure, Europe has produced no comparable global champion. Brussels has responded not by making it easier to innovate and scale, but with the AI Act and an expanding compliance regime that risks pushing investment and talent elsewhere.

In this MCC Brussels Deep Dive, John O’Brien speaks to Dr Norman Lewis, technology analyst and author of the new MCC Brussels report *The Grand Delusion*, about why the EU cannot regulate its way to technological power.

Lewis argues that no country, not even the United States or China, is truly sovereign across the modern technology stack. Yet Brussels continues to pursue sovereignty through regulation, subsidies and grand industrial strategies, while making it harder for European innovators to compete.

The alternative is not isolation, but indispensability. From the failure of France’s Minitel model to the strategic power of ASML, Lewis explains why Europe should stop trying to control the entire digital ecosystem and instead build capabilities the rest of the world cannot do without.

Can Europe still become a serious technological power, or is Brussels regulating the continent out of the AI race?

link to the full written report in the comments-

The EU Is Regulating Europe Out of the Tech Race I MCC Brussels Deep Dive Brussels wants Europe to achieve ‘technological sovereignty’, reduc...

Dutch farmers are showing Europe what happens when ordinary people refuse to surrender their livelihoods to remote bureaucracies.

What began as a protest against crippling nitrogen rules is becoming a continent-wide revolt. From the Netherlands to Brussels, France and Germany, tractors filled the streets as farmers fought back against unrealistic green policies, suffocating regulation, soaring costs and unfair competition.

They were mocked. They were demonised. But they refused to back down and they changed the political landscape.

At MCC Brussels, we have consistently argued that Europe's farmers are not the enemy. They are the backbone of our food security, our rural communities and our national sovereignty. While Brussels lectures, Europe's farmers feed us.

Our research exposes how ideological policymaking is putting farming-and Europe's future at risk.

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The Silent War on Farming: How EU policies are destroying our agriculture November 27, 2023   Reading time: 2 minutes There has been no declaration, troops are not mobilised, no foreign country is occupied. But the EU is nonetheless at war — with its own farmers. Under the guise of environmental concerns, European regulation has slowly squeezed farmers – especially l...

Brussels bureaucrats lecture about democracy and pluralism, yet when a conservative think tank challenges the prevailing orthodoxy, the bureaucracy is more interested in finding a pretext to exclude it than engaging with its ideas.

Please read this in the European Conservative and tell us in comments below what you think?

MCC Brussels Prepares Legal Battle Against Brussels Over Transparency Register The conservative think tank reports double standards applied at the end of a fourteen-month investigation.

Get the news others will not tell you - right here right now the MCC Brussels Podcast with your host Jacob Reynolds.

The Dutch Asylum Revolt Has Begun I MCC Brussels Podcast Host Jacob Reynolds is joined by Richard Schenk and Daniel de Lieve...

Right here right now - Here we expose the Brussels Blacklist.

When a politically motivated complaint against our think tank, MCC Brussels collapsed, the EU's offical Transparency Register- the gatekeepers to power- simply found another way to ban us.

This video explains how the EU's gatekeepers silence dissent. In the video conservative political representatives in the EU are saying something rotten is going on and we need to look at the EU Transparancy Register.
As you know we are one of Brussels' most outspoken critics and it appears the EU does not take criticism well.

Watch The Brussels Blacklist before Brussels decides who you're allowed to hear from.

The EU Tried to Shut Us Out | MCC Brussels vs EU Bureaucracy A complaint was filed against MCC Brussels with the EU Transparency...

Three years ago, when MCC Brussels opened its doors, Frank Furedi made a solemn promise. We had not come to Brussels to fit in. We had not come to be just another think tank whispering politely from the sidelines and begging for a slice of the pie.

We had come to shake up the Brussels Bubble.
Because we knew something the establishment refused to admit.
Across Europe, millions of ordinary people had grown tired of being lectured, deceived and told there was only one acceptable way to think. They were fed up with empty promises, managed narratives and political elites claiming to speak in the name of "consensus."

But this was never a genuine consensus.
It was conformity.
It was the silencing of dissent.
It was the exclusion of anyone brave enough to say, "I disagree."
When we held our first events, people approached us almost in whispers.
"I've never heard anyone speak so boldly in Brussels," they told us.
That told us everything.
People were desperate to hear someone say publicly what so many believed privately.
So we did.

We challenged costly climate extremism.
We challenged broken multicultural dogma.
We challenged perverse gender ideology.
We challenged censorship masquerading as "protecting democracy."
We challenged the NGO funding machine that has become one of the most powerful graft political networks in Europe.

We stood with Europe's farmers, defended nuclear energy, exposed attacks on national sovereignty and argued for secure borders and democratic accountability.
On issue after issue, viewpoints once dismissed as "unacceptable" are now becoming part of the mainstream debate.
The tide is beginning to turn.
But that did not happen by accident.
It happened because some of us were prepared to stand up and refuse to be intimidated.
And the establishment noticed.

Just look at who attacks us.
From the wokistas at The Guardian to the snowflakes at Le Monde, article after article has been devoted in these weeks to trying to discredit MCC Brussels – not because our arguments are weak, but because they are powerful enough to threaten the monopoly on ideas that has dominated Brussels for decades.

The euro network of Soros-funded NGOs and activist organizations works overtime trying to demonize us. Unable to defeat our arguments, they attack us by inflating procedural disputes, such as the suspension from the Transparency Register, into political scandals because they know they cannot win the debate itself.

Even some of our critics have inadvertently exposed what is really happening.

One left wing activist writing in The Brussels Times acknowledged what many people already suspected that the treatment of MCC Brussels looks remarkably like an attempt by the establishment to close down one of its most effective critics.

Why?

Because the Brussels establishment knows how to deal with opposition it can patronize, manage or exclude.
What it cannot handle is opposition that wins the argument.
Three years ago, they tried to silence us and they never stopped us – not for one week, one day, one hour.

Three years later, MCC Brussels is helping shape Europe's debate on free speech, democracy, borders, farming, sovereignty and the future of our civilization.
The harder they pushed, the stronger we became.
They wanted us outside the conversation.
Instead, we became impossible to ignore.
But this is only the beginning.
There is still much work to do.

We must restore energy security.
We must defend Europe's farmers and fishers.
We must protect free speech.
We must keep ideological extremism away from our children.
We must restore democratic accountability to European institutions.

Above all, we must continue encouraging millions of Europeans to speak with confidence, without fear and importantly to vote unimpeded.

That is why we need your help today.

We have produced a short video about what MCC Brussels has achieved in just three years – and, more importantly, showing what is still possible.
Please watch it.
Then share it with your family, your friends and your colleagues.
Every view matters.
Every share helps break through the establishment's media blockade.
Every conversation helps build the movement Europe desperately needs.

And if you believe in what we are doing, please support MCC Brussels.
Together, we can continue challenging the orthodoxy, defending freedom and ensuring that Europe's future belongs to its citizens, not to an insulated political class.

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MCC Brussel’s impact is impossible to ignore For too long, Brussels treated its own ideology as neutral expertis...