Austrian Foreign Minister Schallenberg: EU needs to rethink its enlargement approach

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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EU Confidential returns from its summer break, bringing you this episode from the European Forum Alpbach in Austria where the theme of a "bold Europe" has prompted discussions about Europe's internal as well as geopolitical challenges. Host Suzanne Lynch sits down with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to discuss his suggestion that the EU needs to rethink how it expands its membership to countries like Ukraine, Moldova and hopefuls in the Western Balkans — a debate heating up this week, with both French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel weighing in on the issue. Then, Suzanne gathers together an all-star panel on the sidelines of the forum to discuss whether Europe's approach to the so-called Global South has been misguided. She's joined by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, an Ecuadorian diplomat, scientist, politician and former president of the United Nations General Assembly; Arancha González Laya, Spain's former foreign minister and now dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po; and Oby Ezekwesili, former minister for education and minister of mineral resources of Nigeria, and senior economic adviser of the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative. Remember that our episodes will now land in your podcast feeds at our new time early Friday mornings! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.9	EU Confidential is back and we're coming to you from the Austrian Alps as part of the European
1:12.2	Forum Alpbach. The annual gathering in this idyllic village prides itself and bringing together
1:18.2	Europe's next generation and leaders from politics, business and civil society. I'm Suzanne Lynch,
1:25.1	political's chief Brussels correspondent. And today we're joined by Austria's Minister for European and International Affairs, Alexander Schallenberg.
1:33.6	We get the minister's take on Russia's war in Ukraine, given Austria's historically neutral military position,
1:39.8	and his views on why he believes the current efforts to enlarge the EU aren't working.
1:45.0	We should leave behind us this kind of binary thinking we had in the past.
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