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EU Confidential

Episode 10: Brexit & Ireland — John Bruton — Trump's tax break

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4175 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

While regular host Ryan Heath recovers from his holiday jet lag, news editor Andrew Gray presents an interview with former Irish PM John Bruton on Brexit, a roundup of the latest on Britain's departure from the EU, and discussion of stories from across the Continent. We start with POLITICO's Brexit editor James Randerson, who brings us up to date on the flurry of Brexit position papers released by the U.K. government as well as the EU's official reaction — and what it really thinks. Bruton, the former Irish prime minister who later served as the EU's ambassador to Washington, tells us what Brexit will mean for Ireland, why Britain may decide its vision of life outside the EU isn't achievable and how the rest of the European Union will fare when the negotiating gets tough. In our "EU WTF" feature, Playbook's Harry Cooper and POLITICO tech reporter Joanna Plucinska discuss Donald Trump's Scottish tax break, Cambridge University Press's Chinese challenge and a big rise in popularity for the EU. You can contact the podcast team at [email protected]. Look forward to hearing from you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Politico's EU confidential podcast. I'm Andrew Gray, sitting in once again for the holidaying Ryan Heath.

1:29.6

And in today's podcast, we're back on the Brexit beat. We get up to date with everything

1:35.1

that's been happening with Politico's Brexit editor, James Randerson. You might think that

1:39.7

the EU would be saying, well, this is great. Alas, the Brits are getting serious and they're, you know,

1:44.9

putting forward specifics and, you know, we've got some meat to negotiate on. Actually, in a way,

1:51.3

what the UK is doing here is kind of tweaking the nose of their counterparts on the other side

1:55.7

of the table. And we hear from former Irish Prime Minister and former EU ambassador to Washington, John Bruton,

2:03.4

who's in pretty candid form when it comes to spelling out what he thinks Brexit means for Britain.

2:09.1

So you could say, and I'm about to, that Bruton gets brutal with Britain on Brexit.

2:15.7

The truth is that once we move in the direction of Brexit, the tensions will rise, the additional

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