Episode 4: Good ways out of the corona crisis?

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by Counter Balance and CEO. In the fourth episode, we talk with five experts from civil society organisations about the Covid-19 crisis. The virus as an X-ray: it brings various societal problems that already existed to light. Laura Ulman from Greenpeace, Olivier Hoedeman and Margarida Silva from CEO, Xavier Sol from Counter Balance and Tove Maria Ryding from Eurodad all highlight a different aspect of the unprecedented crisis that we ar...

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0:00.0	You're listening.
0:17.0	You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.
0:27.2	Government is not the solution to our problem.
0:31.3	Government is the problem.
0:34.3	Government is not the solution to our problems.
0:37.3	Government is the problem.
0:39.3	When I hear this famous slogan, as expressed by US President Ronald Reagan,
0:44.3	during his inaugural address in January 1981, I do not know if I should laugh or I should cry.
0:51.3	In the context of the corona crisis, it is clear that Reagan's words are in a way quite hilarious and absurd.
1:00.0	In these times of a pandemic and consequent emergent socio-economic crisis,
1:05.0	where governments are rushing to rescue people's livelihoods and healthcare systems and entire economies, I repeat once
1:12.5	more these words of almost 40 years ago.
1:16.6	Government is not the solution to our problem.
1:20.2	Government is the problem.
1:24.1	Welcome to EU Watchdog Radio, with a special and longer episode dedicated to the corona crisis,
1:30.5	in which we have five experts from civil society organizations,
1:34.7	Laura Ullman from Greenpeace, Olivier Houdeman and Margarita Silva from CEO,
1:40.0	Xavier Sol from Counterbalance, and Tov and Maria riding from Eurodad.
1:44.8	Each of them will highlight a different aspect of the unprecedented crisis that we are facing today.
1:51.1	My name is Hans van Schare, media officer at CEO, and we have been compiling this podcast from our homes.
1:57.5	So if here and there, you might hear strange noises or less sound quality, please forgive us.
2:03.6	Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
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