In this podcast Writers Festival of Belgium’s Alia Papageorgiou talks to Dave Keating a long time journalist in Brussels, usually covering EU US relations as a newscaster, he talks through how his levels of anger and passion towards the new status quo between the two continents birthed his book ‘The Owned Continent, How to free Europe from American military, economic, and cultural dependence. Enjoy
'The Owned Continent', Dave Keating talks us through writing his first book
Brussels based political journalist, moderator and author talks us through his ideas on American influence on European defence, economy and culture. And, what is today's lingua franca?
Apr 22, 2026
Writers Festival of Belgium - the conversations
The Writers Festival of Belgium talks books, interviews with authors, themes like politics, climate change as an emergency, feminism and will bring you the best of ideas and words as we can. The next edition in October 2025 is focused on Cry me A River. We also run a the Short Stories of Belgium competition with winners featuring in local print magazines. For all info please see: writefest.be
The Writers Festival of Belgium talks books, interviews with authors, themes like politics, climate change as an emergency, feminism and will bring you the best of ideas and words as we can. The next edition in October 2025 is focused on Cry me A River. We also run a the Short Stories of Belgium competition with winners featuring in local print magazines. For all info please see: writefest.beListen on
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