Episode 98: EU Presidential Debate highlights

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode we offer you highlights from Monday's 95-minute EU presidential debate in Maastricht, co-moderated by EU Confidential host Ryan Heath. Five candidates debate on Digital Europe, Sustainable Europe and the Future of Europe. The podcast panel is back together to critique the debate and the five new far-right ministers who have joined the government of Estonia, even though two liberal parties won a majority of seats in the country's March election. If you want to here the full 95-minute presidential debate, you can listen to it at: https://soundcloud.com/ryanheatheu/2019-eu-presidential-debate-maastricht-full-length#t=7:49 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.4	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.
1:17.8	This week, my life and the EU bubble debate was all about the EU presidential debate in Maastricht.
1:24.5	I was co-moderating, and this episode is going to feature highlights of the debate. We've tried to keep the final section of the debate in Maastricht. I was co-moderating and this episode is going to feature highlights of the
1:28.2	debate. We've tried to keep the final section of the debate in there, in its integrity,
1:33.1	so that you can get a real flavour about what all of the five candidates thought about the future
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