Episode 79: Gayle Smith — New Year's resolutions & predictions

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Gayle Smith, a former journalist and now campaigner against extreme poverty, is our main guest. In our podcast panel, Alva Finn and Lina Aburous discuss the U.K. policy of making victims of forced marriages pay for their own flights home if they are rescued by the British government. And we make our political predictions for 2019. Smith, CEO and president of the ONE campaigning group, tells host Ryan Heath that after 20 years highlighting the effects of genocide and war, she couldn’t resist the chance to prevent one. So began stints in the Clinton and Obama administrations, before her role at ONE, which brought her to Brussels to argue for EU investments that would keep 33 million children in school during the bloc's 2021-2027 budget period. How does Smith harness the mega-celebrity of ONE founder, Irish rocker Bono? “He brings his fame into the world and people may be excited to meet Bono the rock star, but by the time he leaves the room they feel like, well, that’s Bono the smart activist.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to EU Confidential. I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe, and you're listening to the number one EU politics podcast.
1:17.7	I don't have much to report in the way of New Year's messages from the world's leaders. They were pretty boring, let's say.
1:23.8	But I do think there was some grade A trawling from Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who turned London's iconic London-I Ferris wheel into an EU flag during the New Year's Eve fireworks display in London.
1:36.3	So if anyone is going to top that in 2019, they're going to have to get planning pretty soon because that was excellent trolling.
1:43.3	Here in Brussels, it's been a very quiet week because the EU awards itself a week of closure
1:48.5	over New Year's and Christmas, and then it gives itself some extra days off the back.
1:53.1	So we're going to be in the full swing next week.
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