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EU Confidential

Episode 51: Helle Thorning-Schmidt — European Parliament election — Migration debate

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4175 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Helle Thorning Schmidt, the former Danish PM who's now head of Save the Children International, is our main guest. Host Ryan Heath asks her about tackling populism and who should lead Europe. Ryan also talks to Jaume Duch, who runs communications for the European Parliament and is in charge of spending a whopping €30m to tell people about next year's election. And our podcast panel debates the rights and wrongs of denying the right to dock to the Aquarius, the ship carrying 629 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, welcome back to EU Confidential.

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I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe.

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I wish I could tell you that this was a normal, quiet week of politics. Obviously, it wasn't,

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because this is 2018 and Donald Trump is president of the United States.

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If you thought it was strange to hear the US praising a rogue nuclear-armed dictator in Singapore,

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while calling Canada weak and terrible at the G7 summit, well, you weren't alone.

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Back in Europe, we might get through the week without a government rising or falling.

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