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Brussels Playbook Podcast

Ep 145: Italian lessons — Democratic distancing — ONE Campaign's Gayle Smith

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4205 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

POLITICO's Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli in Rome shares her thoughts on what the rest of Europe can learn from Italy's response to the coronavirus. Our pan-European panel debates the challenges for democracy in the age of social distancing and examines the risks for the European project if countries hit hard by COVID-19 don't feel solidarity from their neighbors. Gayle Smith, CEO of development NGO the ONE Campaign, was in Brussels a few weeks ago and shared her prescient views on the coronavirus, based on her expertise in international development and battling past epidemics. POLITICO's Lili Bayer also talks us through the potential impact of the crisis on the EU's ability to agree its next long-term budget. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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just heard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking at an extraordinary session of the European

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Parliament on Thursday. Extraordinary in many ways, as most MEPs weren't in the chamber,

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but scattered around Europe voting remotely for the first time. But even in this era of social

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And leaders delivered more of that by video conference this evening in what sounds like a bitter dispute over European solidarity,

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