A troubling new era for Europe — Start Your Week with Gavin Esler and Ros Taylor

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Trump’s attitude towards Ukraine leaves Europe in an uncertain position – how will it handle this new era? Gavin Esler joins Ros Taylor to discuss the turbulent situation after that horrendous Oval Office meeting and a major meeting of European leaders over the weekend. Want more insight on the Zelenskyy and Trump meeting aftermath? Listen to our sibling podcast American Friction: https://linktr.ee/americanfriction We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Gavin Esler. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	Hello and welcome to start your week from the bunker. I'm Ros Taylor and joining me to talk through this week's news is Gavin Esler. Welcome to the bunker, Gavin. Good morning. Europe has woken up. That's what the Polish PM, Donald Tusk, said after yesterday's summit in London, while Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission said, we urgently have to rearm Europe. But just how hard is that going to be now that the US
1:12.8	seems to be no longer our ally? Gavin, after the vile scenes in the White House after Trump
1:19.0	and Vance attacked Zelensky last week, it was good to see the PM taking the lead in Europe,
1:23.4	wasn't it? And even Canada's Justin Trudeau came along too. Yeah, it was very, very good. I think
1:28.9	Kirstama has done incredibly well, given we saw the difference between his meeting with Donald Trump,
1:35.6	President Macron's meeting with Donald Trump, which was a bit more touchy-feely in sort of weird ways,
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