News Roundup: Media & Resistance, Higlights from this week

*A news commentary with James Kanter, Julia Payne, Joanna Gill, Diego Velazquez, Olga Chladkova*

Get your news fix and morning coffee at Full Circle House. Enjoy a curated selection of insightful stories from this week on the theme of resistance. Spanning from climate to corruption, transitions and protests and all in between, a stellar panel of Brussels-based journalists will delve into this week’s main events in the eu and around the world, and offer skilled analysis and comment for much needed sense-making.

*This event is part of Brussels Ideas Festival 2025*
*Weekend or Day Pass available*
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ABOUT The Hosts

james Kanter is an American and British award-winning journalist and Brussels-based commentator on eu affairs. Previously at Herald Tribune and The New York Times. He's co-founder and editor of the Podcast eu Scream.

Olga Chládková is Senior producer and journalist at Ard tv Studio Brussels. She covers eu and Benelux politics for the Tagesschau and the Ard Europamagazin.

Diego Velazquez is Brussels correspondent for the Luxembourger Wort,
reporting on eu politics, the Eu’s eastward enlargement and social issues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Joanna Gill is Europe correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and was previously at Afp and Euronews. She covers climate change, technology and society, and Lgbtq+ rights.