Episode 96, presented by BP: Decoding election betting, polling and journalism

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The European Parliament has wrapped up its current five-year term, and the election campaign now enters into a final five-week sprint. This episode features a three-way discussion about what betting companies, opinion pollsters and journalists can tell us about election campaigns and results, featuring Cornelius Hirsch, co-founder of Poll of Polls, now with POLITICO; Eleni Varvitsioti, Brussels correspondent for Greek newspaper Kathimerini and Matthew Shaddick, head of political betting at Ladbrokes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:41.2	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.
1:50.7	Well, that's a wrap. The European Parliament has finished its final plenary session of this five-year term.
1:56.3	I spent most of the week in Strasbourg, but I wasn't trailing around the corridors of Parliament.
2:00.3	I was instead interviewing six candidates for European Commission President at the TV studio. I spent most of the week in Strasbourg, but I wasn't trailing around the corridors of Parliament.
2:07.5	I was instead interviewing six candidates for European Commission President at the TV studios of Ate, the multilingual TV station.
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