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EU Confidential

Debate time! EU lead candidates go head-to-head

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4175 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It was a rare chance to see all the leading candidates from Europe's main political parties go head-to-head in a presidential-style debate to become the next head of the European Commission. With just over a month to go until the European Parliament election, eight politicians met in the Dutch city of Maastricht and spent an hour and a half answering questions on key issues such as climate change, defense and European democracy. If you missed it, don't worry — we've picked out the key moments and some of the more heated exchanges. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by colleagues POLITICO's editor at large Nicholas Vinocur and Barbara Moens, chief EU correspondent and co-moderator of the debate. They give us their take on who won, who lost, and how it all went down. Did anyone manage to impress a room full of university students and over a quarter of a million people watching the debate online? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And of course you can imagine that we discuss a lot politics at the kitchen table.

0:53.4

This election is about democracy.

0:55.9

Your vote counts. Those were the opening statements from Monday's debate among the EU's lead candidates.

1:03.0

It was the first time in this election campaign that the people vying to head the European

1:07.2

Commission walked the red carpet, got on stage, and went head to head,

1:12.3

answering questions on everything from climate change and migration to defense and democracy.

1:17.7

They hashed it out in front of a live audience in a theater filled mostly with university

1:22.0

students and journalists. And there were also over a quarter of a million people watching

1:26.5

the live broadcast.

1:33.6

For the most part, the debate on the campus of Maastricht University in the Netherlands was civilized.

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