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Brussels Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Europe is facing another energy shock — so what can it actually do to keep prices down? Zoya Sheftalovich speaks with Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen in a conversation recorded live at POLITICO’s Competitive Europe summit, on how the EU is responding to rising costs linked to the war in Iran — and what happens if the crisis drags on. Then, back in the studio, Zoya and Ian Wishart look at the contest among nine cities vying to host the EU’s new customs authority, take stock of Denmark’s tight election result — and, yes, return to the great tree debate. Got a favorite tree? Send us a voice note or a message on WhatsApp: +32 491 05 06 29. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Good morning, it's Wednesday, March 25, and this is the Brussels Playbook podcast.
0:47.6	I'm Zoya Shafdlovich, and with me today is our senior EU politics editor, Ian Wushat. Hey, Ian.
0:49.0	Morning again, Zoya. How are you?
0:52.2	I'm well. I've been watching the elections in Denmark. Have you been?
0:59.4	Yes, that's what we're going to start this morning on. It looks like a pretty disastrous result for the Prime Minister. Yes and no, disastrous,
1:04.5	but still she won. It's just she did not do very well. She's really lost a bunch of her vote share. So what happens next? The sort of coalition building now. We've got a story in Politico about
1:10.6	the kingmaker, this man that everybody here will know Lars Lacharasmussen. Yeah, that's right. He's the Danish foreign minister, the leader of the centrist moderate party. He was the prime minister, but that's why people here know him a lot in Brussels. That's right. All around the European Council Summit table, he's well known and his party is looking like it
1:28.5	might really swing the balance. And so Meta Friedrichson, she's going to be trying to retain
1:32.5	her prime ministership and stick around for a third term. But a lot of it is going to be up to
1:37.0	old Lars Larka Rasmussen who likes to use soap to brush his teeth apparently. Yeah, we did,
1:42.5	we wrote that story on Politico. So bottom line,
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