Episode 41: Bill Gates — Judging junkets — Greek MEPs' special stopover

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is this week’s main guest. He talks to Ryan Heath about the work of his foundations, the next EU budget and the Oxfam scandal. And we talk to Politico health reporter Carmen Paun about how Gates has shaken up the world of public health — not without criticism. In our Dear Politico advice session, we hear from an assistant to a member of the European Parliament, who says their MEP is using their job to get trips to exotic locations at taxpayers’ expense. We also say EU WTF! about an Italian mayor’s plan to host a Nazi re-enactment and a Greek airline’s special stopover for MEPs — and give a big EU Thumbs Up to the Iberian lynx. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Hey everyone.
1:10.1	Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe.
1:15.4	In this week's show, we have a big-name guest, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.
1:20.8	He talks about the work of his foundation, what he wants to see in the next EU budget, and what he thinks about the Oxfam scandal.
1:27.0	To set up that conversation,
1:28.5	we talked to Politico health reporter Carmen Porn about how Gates has shaken up the world of public
1:33.0	health, not without criticism. Carmen sticks around to join the Brussels Brains Trust this week.
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