COP26 climate drama — Top US foreign policy adviser Derek Chollet

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, we get the American perspective on European strategic autonomy and other issues facing the EU from Derek Chollet, the top adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. We also unpack the dramatic denouement of the COP26 climate conference. POLITICO's Senior Climate Correspondent Karl Mathiesen takes us inside the final day of the climate negotiations and the dramatic showdown over coal. In conversation with POLITICO's Chief Policy Correspondent Sarah Wheaton, Karl brings us exclusive audio from the conference and explains how a last-minute push by the world's biggest carbon emitters to "phase down" rather than "phase out" coal power put the entire agreement in jeopardy. Then we hear from Derek Chollet, a foreign policy expert and top adviser to the U.S. secretary of state. POLITICO’s Chief Brussels Correspondent David Herszenhorn caught up with Chollet in Brussels this week. They start with a conversation on the main focus of his trip to Europe, a flare-up of tensions is Bosnia, and then tackle the migration crisis at the border of Belarus and Poland, EU enlargement and America’s thinking on European strategy autonomy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You Confidential gets started right after this.
0:02.8	Today's episode is presented by Alderpati.
0:05.8	With Europe facing the challenges of a generation,
0:08.5	Alder Patti is committed to fostering an honest debate about the continent's future
0:12.3	by genuinely involving citizens and discussions.
0:18.5	I think it's very important to get out of the theoretical realm, the think tank realm of strategic autonomy and to talk about pragmatic, practical solutions.
0:32.6	Welcome to EU Confidential, Europe's number one politics podcast. I'm Sarah Wheaton, Politico's chief policy correspondent,
0:39.6	filling in for Andrew Gray, who's back next week. But this week, we have a great episode in store,
0:45.4	including a conversation with the voice you just heard at the top of the podcast. Derek Cholet,
0:50.4	the top advisor to U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken. He's been in Europe to discuss some of the big geopolitical issues.
0:57.0	One of the things we've talked about here in Brussels today is now that the Bulgarians have
1:02.5	had an election and will have a new government that let's hope to make some progress on
1:06.8	Albania and North Macedonia in terms of their own efforts to enter the EU.
1:10.2	And that's something, it's not for the U.S. to decide whether that happens, but we're
1:13.5	certainly going to lend our efforts into trying to do what we can to help make it out.
1:18.6	That's coming up later in the podcast. But first, we're going to check in with Carl Matheson,
1:23.4	our senior climate correspondent, to fill us in on the outcome of the COP26 climate talks
1:28.3	and what it means for Europe. And now I'm sitting here, maybe for the last time in a while,
1:34.9	in person with my colleague Carl Matheson. Hey, Sarah. And Carl, I'm actually surprised they're
1:41.9	awake after your marathon two weeks of summiting.
1:45.1	Yeah, it's been pretty full on. We had the G20 as well, so we went Rome, Glasgow. It's been nuts.
1:52.5	Well, thanks for rallying one last time here for us. No worries. So I'm eager for you to help us
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