Ep 197: Germany's candidates — Super League shambles — data breach battles

Brussels Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The candidates vying to be Germany's next chancellor, Europe's Super League football flop and battles over people's personal data all feature in this week's episode. A resurgent Green party in Germany chose Annalena Baerbock as their candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor. POLITICO's Matthew Karnitschnig has everything you need to know about her, and the conservative coalition's decision to finally pick CDU leader Armin Laschet as its standard-bearer, after more than a week of bitter public feuding. On the not-so-Super League, POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz, Ali Walker and Simon Van Dorpe discuss the fierce popular and political backlash against the project, which soon fell apart. They look at some of the big questions about sports, power and politics raised by the controversy. And finally, recent data leaks from social media platforms Facebook, LinkedIn and Clubhouse collectively revealed the information of around a billion users. But the platforms have played down the revelations. Here's Facebook's response, insisting its systems were not hacked. Data regulators around Europe, however, are not so sure everything is shipshape and have launched investigations. What does the controversy say about Europe's efforts to protect its citizens' personal information and the EU's flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? POLITICO's Vincent Manancourt explains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Commission defends a European model of sports. The main principles of this model are the principle of autonomy, of openness, of solidarity and the interdependence of the international federations.
0:16.9	Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels. And that was a spokesperson for the European Commission, Sonia Gosponinova, reacting to news of a proposed European Football Super League, a breakaway move by some of the continent's top clubs. As you might just have heard, there was a big backlash from fans and
0:39.1	from politicians, and the plan soon fell apart. But it raised some big questions about sport,
0:46.0	politics, democracy and competition in Europe today, and we'll tackle those in a special
0:51.8	podcast panel. If this were played out in a legal setting, it might have gone to the advantage of
0:58.3	the super league clubs, but the huge storm that was probably started by Emmanuel Macron and
1:04.1	Boris Johnson turned the events quite in a different direction.
1:07.8	And later in the podcast, we'll look at data privacy in Europe after a series of massive
1:13.5	data leaks involving some of the biggest tech platforms. But first, it's been a big week in
1:20.6	German politics. So let's check in with our own chief Europe correspondent in Berlin, Matt Karnichnik. Hi,
1:27.1	Matt. Hi there. So a big week in German
1:30.9	politics, which we wanted to review with two candidates for Chancellor being selected. We talked already
1:38.1	a fair bit about the CDU-CSU battle for that nomination, and we'll get into that again more in a moment.
1:45.0	But the first candidate this week to be selected was Annalena Bearbok of the Greens.
1:50.0	We have it in the hand and therefore I stay here.
1:55.7	You may not be so well known to some people.
1:59.4	So are you up for another 30 second challenge,
2:02.6	everything you need to know about Annalena Berbock in 30 seconds? Absolutely. Okay,
2:08.2	the clock starts now. Well, she's 40 years old. She's originally from lower Saxony around
2:16.3	Hanover, although she's often associated with East Germany now
2:20.0	because she's represented Brandenburg and Potsdam in the Bundestag.
2:24.9	She became the head of the Greens, the co-head of the Greens, rather, in 2018, I believe.
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