{"id":16753,"date":"2026-05-22T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/16753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:47:09","slug":"podcast-how-is-brussels-taking-all-this-brexit-banter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/16753\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast | How is Brussels taking all this Brexit banter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7sc42YPPNq2yFng6zlBXXn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Spotify podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"183\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f54f004293001e63961ff2c45e3aa968.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spotify podcast<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/castbox.fm\/channel\/Brussels%2C-My-Love--id6806641?country=gb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Castbox podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"183\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15166dd9547f7de433d7621b175d22d4.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Castbox podcast<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In this week\u2019s episode of Brussels, my love?, we dive into the big conversations around Brexit after recent UK local elections reopened a Pandora\u2019s box about Britain\u2019s future relationship with the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Host M\u00e9abh Mc Mahon unpacks why the debate has returned and what the view from Brussels is with guests Dharmendra Kanani, Natalie Sarkic-Todd and Euronews politics correspondent Stefan Grobe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBrexit was a lie,\u201d according to Darmendra Kanani from the pro-European think tank Friends of Europe said, arguing that \u201cthe cost of leaving far, far outweighed the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But not everyone feels a return to the EU is either realistic or welcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThere is no way of bringing these voters back,\u201d warns Euronews political correspondent Stefan Grobe, pointing to the continued rise of Nigel Farage and deep political disillusionment across Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Natalie Sarkic-Todd, founder of The Battleground also cautions against reopening \u201cthe Brexit Pandora\u2019s box,\u201d reminding listeners just how chaotic and divisive the withdrawal process became.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The podcast explores whether security threats, trade pressures and economic realities could gently push the UK closer to Brussels again \u2014 even without formally rejoining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Plus: could Europe finally make cross-border train travel simpler? The panel reacts to the European Commission\u2019s ambitious new rail ticketing proposal designed to make travelling across Europe easier, cheaper and more connected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf they could make trains cheaper and interoperable across Europe,\u201d says Grobe, \u201cI totally support it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Euronews.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify podcast Castbox podcast In this week\u2019s episode of Brussels, my love?, we dive into the big conversations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[344,18,10889,10888,10890,10891,8202,10887,6979],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brexit","tag-brussels","tag-darmendra-kanani","tag-dharmendra-kanani","tag-friends-of-europe","tag-natalie-sarkic-todd","tag-nigel-farage","tag-pandoras-box","tag-stefan-grobe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116617127001777903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}