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Season 1 · EP 4 · Society

The European Parliament, bureaucracy and economics

With Carlos Castillo, european Parliament adviser. Europe from the inside: how a rule gets approved, who actually writes it and why European bureaucracy works the way it does.

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Decisions that affect your business are taken a thousand kilometres away in language designed to be impenetrable. Carlos translates the process: who proposes, who negotiates and where it is really decided.

What this episode covers

  • The real journey of an EU rule, from idea to law
  • Who writes the texts that later get voted on
  • How EU funds arrive and why they take so long
  • What a small business can actually do about Brussels

About the guest

Carlos Castillo is european Parliament adviser. This conversation was recorded for season 1 of Otra Conversación and runs 1h 02m with no cuts and no closed script.

Season 1 Society 1h 02m
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