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Brussels Playbook Podcast

Ep 149: Europe's recovery — Virtual Council — Anything but corona

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4205 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

EU leaders met virtually to try to forge a path toward economic recovery — and they found a way not to disagree, by deciding in advance not to try to agree. With the European Commission now tasked with producing a plan, what are the main sticking points to getting Europe up and running again? POLITICO's David Herszenhorn and Jacopo Barigazzi take us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the European Council, explaining how things typically work and how that's changed in the coronavirus era. Our podcast panel digs into the battles over the economy and the row over Britain's decision not to take part in an EU effort to procure medical equipment. We also explore some stories that didn't get so much attention because the world has been transfixed by the coronavirus. And we bid a fond farewell — for now — to our U.K. correspondent and panel regular Annabelle Dickson, who shares some joyful news with our listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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for full details. I'm very happy that the leaders this evening tasked the Commission with shaping our collective response.

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We will indeed carry out a thorough assessment of the impact of the crisis on the overall European economy.

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Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor, and that was European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the end of Thursday's video conference of EU leaders.

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To sum it up, they found a way not to disagree by deciding in advance not to try to agree.

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Instead, they asked von der Leyen's commission to come up with a plan

2:02.7

for a fund to help Europe's economy recover from the coronavirus and to figure out how that would

2:08.9

work with the EU's long-term budget. Vonderlion outlined some of her thinking, but the big

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questions remain to be resolved and we'll get to those in just a few

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