Ep 201, presented by Equinor: Israeli-Palestinian conflict — Laschet's foreign foray — Javier Solana

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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European attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the foreign policy of Germany's conservative candidate for chancellor, and a chat with former EU High Representative Javier Solana all feature in this week's episode. POLITICO's Rym Momtaz, David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew Gray unpack the divisions within the EU over the upsurge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They also explore whether Europe would have much of a role to play in efforts to resolve the conflict, even if it could speak with one voice. Armin Laschet, Angela Merkel's would-be successor, set out his foreign policy vision in a big speech this week. POLITICO's Matthew Karnitschnig sums up the key points and looks at the main dividing lines between Laschet and the Greens, the conservatives' biggest rivals in the polls. Javier Solana has quite the political CV — former Spanish foreign minister, NATO secretary-general and EU foreign policy chief. These days he's still very plugged into international affairs, as president of the Spanish-based Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (EsadeGeo). He spoke to Andrew about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his disagreement with his old friend Joe Biden on China, and the future of European defense. He also had a book recommendation for EU Confidential 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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0:00.0	EU Confidential gets started right after this message.
0:03.5	Today's episode is presented by Equino.
0:06.3	Europe aims to provide sustainable, affordable and secure energy for its citizens and industries.
0:12.2	We in Equinole believe our energy sources and solutions will contribute to the carbon neutral Europe of the future.
0:21.9	The priority is that in the future. The priority is the immediate cessation of all violence and implementation of a ceasefire.
0:30.3	The purpose is to protect civilians and to give full humanitarian access in Gaza.
0:37.1	Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray Politico's EU editor in Brussels.
0:42.7	And you just heard Joseph Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign policy,
0:47.9	calling for an end to the deadly surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
0:53.4	Unfortunately for him, even though he's the EU's
0:56.1	foreign policy chief, he couldn't make that statement on behalf of all of the EU's members,
1:01.7	because one of them wouldn't sign up. We'll get into who that was and why, and into how Europe
1:07.4	is responding to the conflict more broadly with our podcast panel. We'll also
1:12.6	discuss that subject and others with Javier Solana, a predecessor of Burrells in the top EU foreign
1:18.5	policy job and a former NATO Secretary General too. And we'll catch up on a major foreign policy
1:24.5	speech by Armin Lashett, the conservative candidate to succeed
1:28.8	Angela Merkel as Chancellor. But first, let's get to that podcast panel.
1:35.8	So a warm welcome to our Chief Brussels correspondent David Hersonhorn. Hi, David. Hi there.
1:40.0	And to Riem Montaz in Paris. Hi, Riem. Hello all. Now we're going to dive right into the big
1:46.3	controversy of the week around the world, really, and certainly in Europe, the Israeli-Palestinian
1:52.0	conflict. David, what we've seen, or one of the things we've seen this week, is that there is
1:56.7	division within the European Union, right? This is not a union united on this question. How would you sketch out the different camps, if you like, within the European Union, right? This is not a union united on this question. How would
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