Brussels after Biden — Hungarian election — World Food Programme boss

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We recap Joe Biden's visit to Brussels for a series of summits focused on the war in Ukraine and get you up to speed on Hungary's election this weekend. World Food Programme boss David Beasley joins us to talk about the global food crisis. POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Matthew Karnitschnig and Lili Bayer take stock of last week's meetings of G7, NATO and European Union leaders, all attended by the U.S. president. The team debates whether it's realistic for Europe to achieve military autonomy any time soon and asks how much substance there was behind the symbolism at the summits. Reporting from Budapest, Lili explains the stakes in Sunday's parliamentary election in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is running for another term. We hear from leading opposition candidate Péter Márki-Zay, Orbán's chief of staff Gergely Gulyás, and MEPs Klára Dobrev and Anna Donáth about the impact the war in Ukraine is having on the campaign. Opposition candidates also explain why they're not competing on a level playing field when it comes to challenging Orbán's ruling Fidesz party. Then we hear from the executive director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley. He spoke to POLITICO's Eddy Wax about the growing world food crisis — which is being exacerbated by the war in Ukraine — and lays out the consequences that the European Union could face if its leaders don't cough up more cash to deal with rising food costs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.7	And you just heard words of warning from David Beasley. He's the executive director of the UN's
1:43.6	World Food Program. You'll hear more from Beasley, he's the executive director of the UN's World Food Programme.
1:45.4	You'll hear more from Beasley later in the podcast about the impact that Russia's war in Ukraine
1:50.8	is having on global food supplies and prices and about the knock-on effects that could have
1:56.9	in terms of instability and social unrest around the world. But before we get to that,
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