Ep 140: EU's €1 trillion summit — Herman Van Rompuy — A digital vision

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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4.4 • 205 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We go inside the special summit on the EU budget as leaders battle over plans likely to be worth more than €1 trillion over seven years. Among those sharing their thoughts with us: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Estonian Prime Minister Jüri Ratas and the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. Herman Van Rompuy, who negotiated the last long-term EU budget as president of the European Council seven years ago, tells us how these talks play out and shares his recollections of how he managed to strike a deal. The EU wants a chunk of the next budget to be spent on digital policy and the European Commission set out its digital vision for the Continent this week. POLITICO's technology editor, Nicholas Vinocur, joins us to break down those plans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.2	A tunnel in the night fighting with words and numbers longing for daylight. A tunnel in the night fighting with words and numbers longing for daylight. Welcome to EU Confidential coming to you from a special summit of the
1:23.2	European Council which is grappling late into the night with the trillion euro question.
1:28.9	That's very roughly what the EU budget will probably amount to over the next seven years.
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1:47.8	And the voice you heard at the top of the podcast was Herman von Rompuy, former European
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