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Hey everyone.

Welcome back to EU Confidential, the number one EU politics podcast.

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

We're definitely heading into the mid-August quiet zone.

So far, there's been no political summer crisis, if you exclude Europe's heatwave,

and even then, in terms of lives lost,

it's been far less disastrous than the 2003 heatwave. We'll see if that lasts. With the new US sanctions against Iran starting to bite, EU efforts to protect European companies against the US

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