Episode 87 — Richard Grenell and Miroslav Lajčák at the Munich Security Conference

EU Confidential

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week’s podcast focuses on the Munich Security Conference, one of the big events on the global political calendar. It features two interviews from POLITICO’s chief Europe correspondent Matt Karnitschnig, who sat down with Rick Grenell, the outspoken U.S. ambassador to Berlin, and Slovakia’s veteran Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák. Grenell and Lajčák provided their divergent impressions of the conference and transatlantic relations. They also addressed the palpably divisive issues of the Iran nuclear deal and the general tone emanating from Washington, among other topics. We also spoke with POLITICO’s chief Brussels correspondent David Herszenhorn, one of our reporters who covered the event, to get an insider’s impression of this year’s “tense” conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.1	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.
1:32.6	This week we focus on one of the big events of the global political calendar, the Munich Security Conference, which took place last weekend.
1:39.8	It's basically the foreign policy gathering. World leaders, ministers, lawmakers, diplomats, military
1:46.7	chiefs, all getting together for a frenzy of speeches, panels and networking in a luxury
1:51.5	hotel in the heart of Bavaria. Above all, the conference provides a temperature reading of the
1:57.0	transatlantic relationship. The current temperature, it has to be said, is ice cold.
2:02.3	Listen for the next response, or rather non-response,
2:05.2	which followed this message from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
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