Episode 95: For & Against the EU — Sandro Gozi & Anders Vistisen

EU Confidential

POLITICO

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

For or against the EU? It's the biggest European question of all — and we tackled it in a debate in front of an audience in Brussels this week as the EU election campaign gets into high gear. Hear highlights of the debate between Sandro Gozi, Italy's former Europe minister who is standing for Emmanuel Macron's party in the election, and Anders Vistisen, Danish MEP and member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group. EU Confidential host Ryan Heath plays referee in this heated contest.Find out which candidate compared Viktor Orbán to the unobtainable girl in high school and the migration crisis to the weather in Brussels. And if you haven't had a chance yet, check out our special episode from earlier this week, recorded in front of an audience in London at the Podcast Live event, featuring Emily Thornberry, Labour's shadow foreign secretary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to EU Confidential, the number one EU politics podcast.
1:30.3	I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe, and what a fascinating little week this has been so far.
1:37.3	Coming up in this episode, we're going to hear a slice of that via a debate between Sandra Gottzi.
1:42.3	He's an on-marsh MEP candidate in France, who is also a former
1:45.6	Europe Affairs Minister in Italy, and Anders Visterson, the Danish People's Party Eurosceptic MEP.
1:52.5	Gotti will argue the case for the EU and Visterson, the case against the EU. But before we go there,
1:58.3	let's recap the week's three main political developments in Europe.
2:01.6	First, we kick-started the week with Mateo Salvini, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister, launching a new Eurosceptic Alliance.
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