Episode 91: EU summit — Brexit, Orbán & liberals — Flemish Culture Minister Sven Gatz

EU Confidential

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's a summit special this week. POLITICO’s Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz and Florian Eder discussed the topic du jour, Brexit, as EU leaders gathered in Brussels. They also chewed over Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party being suspended from the European People’s Party and the Continent's liberals entering the EU election fray. Keeping in mind that some things are bigger than politics, it’s a week of reflection in Brussels, three years on from the March 22 terrorist attacks on the city’s Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station. We try to gain some perspective with Flemish Culture Minister Sven Gatz, whose new book “Molenbeek/Maalbeek: A Brussels Tale” delves into the stories of seven fictional individuals on March 22, 2016. The book is as much about this "lowest point in decades" as it is about Brussels, the city, which is full of people “living side-by-side but not together,” in the words of Gatz. We also check in again with polling guru Cornelius Hirsch of pollofpolls.eu about the challenges of accurate polling for the European election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.3	Welcome to this week's EU Confidential podcast. I'm Andrew Gray Politico's EU editor.
1:15.7	Ryan Heath is on holiday in a desperate attempt to avoid Brexit, and we're going to try and strike a balance in this week's podcast between Brexit and non-Brexit items.
1:24.8	We're going to mix things up right at the beginning because we're recording
1:27.8	the podcast just before the start of the big EU summit in Brussels this week. So we're going
1:32.9	to have a special mini summit podcast panel to start off. We'll talk to Politico's Paris correspondent
1:39.1	Riem Montas and our Brussels playbook author Florian Ader and get some different perspectives on Brexit
1:46.4	and also on Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban's suspension from the European People's Party
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