EU leaders meet in the shadow of failed Wagner mutiny in Russia

EU Confidential

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Our slightly-later edition of this week's EU Confidential comes to you from on-the-ground at the European Council — where the EU's 27 leaders are discussing topics ranging from security guarantees for Ukraine, to migration and the bloc's position on China. But recent news out of Russia has many concerned about instability in the region. POLITICO's senior reporters Lili Bayer and Jacopo Barigazzi sit down with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda to discuss his concerns about potential Wagner forces in neighboring Belarus — and the threat that could pose for the EU. Then, host Suzanne Lynch is joined by Senior France Correspondent Clea Caulcutt, Senior Trade Reporter Barbara Moens and Senior Politics Reporter Hans von der Burchard to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, migration and the EU's position on sensitive technologies made in China. And in the second half of the podcast, we pivot away from the European Council and hear from Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf. During a visit to Brussels earlier this week, he makes it clear that the EU shouldn't close the door to Scottish membership in the European Union. Programming note: The next bonus episode of our EU Confidential in focus series on HIV will drop in your feed next Tuesday. Our health care colleague Ashleigh Furlong tackles the tricky topic of criminalization around HIV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.0	European Council. It's that time again. EU leaders are gathering here in Brussels for another
1:27.2	European Council, chaired
1:29.0	by its president, Charles Michel.
1:31.5	Ukraine will be an important topic on the agenda.
1:36.0	Although these meetings of EU leaders happen relatively often, the shock news of an aborted
1:41.3	insurrection in Russia led by Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Precozhen
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