Episode 97: Manfred Weber, EPP EU presidential candidate

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week it's a short episode: just a 20-minute interview with Manfred Weber, the person in pole position to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president later this year. The interview was conducted by POLITICO's Ryan Heath and Nazan Gökdemir, a journalist from the Franco-German TV station ARTE, part of a series of interviews with six presidential candidates. You can binge-watch all the interviews on politico.eu. We focus on Weber this week, because next week's podcast will be highlights of the Maastricht EU presidential debate, featuring all the candidates and parties except Oriol Junqueras (who is in in pre-trial detention in Spain) and Weber, who is skipping the debate to attend a celebration of Theo Waigel, his fellow Bavarian politician and a political mentor. Before the interview Ryan speaks to Andrew Gray, POLITICO's EU editor, about Weber's side of the story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	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. We've been hitting you with a lot of podcast episodes in recent weeks, so this week is a short episode, just a 20-minute interview with Manfred Weber, the person with the strongest chance of succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission President later this year. I conducted the interview
1:32.1	in Strasbourg with Nazan Gokhtimir, a journalist from the Franco-German TV station Ate. It was part of a series
1:38.4	of interviews with six candidates for Commission President, which you can binge watch on
1:42.4	politico.e.U. The reason we selected Weber for this podcast episode is not only because he's from
1:48.4	Europe's biggest party, the centre-right European People's Party, he's also skipping the
1:53.0	first EU presidential debate taking place Monday, April 29 in Must Street.
1:57.7	So you won't get to hear him in next week's EU confidential. And I want to hold his
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