Ep 167: Commission reshuffle — Strasbourg skip — Brexit's back — Twitter's Nick Pickles

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 204 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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A European Commission reshuffle, the European Parliament's decision to skip Strasbourg and new uproar over Brexit all feature in this episode — alongside our interview guest Nick Pickles, Twitter's global policy strategist. POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz, Matt Karnitschnig and Bjarke Smith-Meyer unpack Ursula von der Leyen's rejig of her top team. The Commission president selected Valdis Dombrovsksis as her new trade chief and nominated Ireland's Mairead McGuinness as financial services commissioner. The panel also debates the European Parliament’s canceled trip to Strasbourg next week due to coronavirus concerns. And POLITICO's Charlie Cooper breaks down the U.K.'s admission that its new Brexit plans would break international law. Nick Pickles, global head of policy strategy and development at Twitter, talks to POLITICO's Melissa Heikkilä. They discuss how Twitter handles political content and if there's a middle way between leaving controversial content online and taking it down. Pickles also talks about what Twitter hopes to see in the Commission's upcoming Digital Services Act and Democracy Action Plan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.9	I have decided to propose the appointment of Mrs. McGuinness to the post of Commissioner.
1:23.4	She will be in charge of financial services, financial stability and capital markets union.
1:31.9	Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels.
1:37.8	And you just heard Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announcing that she'd picked Married McGuinness,
1:43.7	a veteran member of the European Parliament, to be Ireland's next European Commissioner, following the resignation of Phil Hogan.
1:51.7	That was part of a mini-commission reshuffle that also saw Vice President Valdez Dombrovskis take on the trade portfolio.
2:00.1	Wonderlyon made the entire announcement in just one minute, 50 seconds, and took no questions.
2:06.4	But we'll go where the Commission President feared to tread, dive in in more detail in just a moment.
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