The Commission is indeed working on a legal proposal on such digital green passes, which can be expected still in March.

The aim will be to work towards facilitating safe, free movement in the European Union.

Welcome to EU Confidential, the number one European politics podcast. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels.

And you just heard a spokesperson for the European Commission talking this week about plans for an EU-wide vaccine passport.

We're going to debate that idea in just a moment with our podcast panel and also discuss crumbling EU solidarity

when it comes to vaccines. And later on the podcast, you'll hear from our new EU-China correspondent,

Stuart Lau, for the first in an occasional series of conversations about Europe's increasingly

importance and increasingly complex relationship with China.

But first, we have discussed many controversial topics on this podcast, Brexit, relations with Russia,

the Iran nuclear deal. But I don't think we've ever had as much feedback and in some cases

blowback as we did after last week's discussion about Euro-English. Listeners from one EU member

country in particular were upset that their variety of English inadvertently ended up on the

cutting room floor.

So here's a message just for them with the help of one of our listeners,

Thomas O'Connell, whose name might just give you a clue when it comes to which country we're talking about.

Hello, what's the crack? The EU confidential crew is sorry that it didn't include Ireland and Hiberno English in its discussion on English in last week's episode.

Our lovely Irish listeners are important to us. Thanks to those who reached out and we hope that you'll keep listening.

And rest assured that you're a valued member of the EU and our podcast.

Sloan.

Hope a few Irish eyes and ears are smiling after that one.

Thanks to Thomas and thanks to all of you for your feedback.

You can send it to us via email.

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