EU top jobs deal — French election, round 1

EU Confidential

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Straight from the European Council summit, we bring you the latest news and analysis on a range of tough issues on the leaders' agenda. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO colleagues Barbara Moens and Aitor Hernández-Morales to discuss how EU leaders agreed on who they want to lead the top EU institutions over the next five years. With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a special guest at the summit, EU leaders also talked about Ukraine — following the official opening of accession talks between Brussels and Kyiv earlier this week. Finally, we speak to Clea Caulcutt, our senior correspondent in Paris. She unpacks the prospects of Sunday's first round of snap parliamentary elections. Further reading: EU leaders arrive to discuss top jobs at high-stakes meeting — live updates by POLITICO Giorgia Meloni hits out at EU top jobs backroom deal by Barbara Moens, Hannah Roberts and Giorgio Leali Far right seizes France’s conservative heartlands by Clea Caulcutt French election: Your guide to a vote that is set to shake the EU and NATO by Clea Caulcutt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	So it's Thursday evening. I'm here in this cavernous room in the dead center of Brussels European
0:36.2	quarter. It's filled with grumpy,
0:39.3	bored journalists, and we've been waiting all day. We're hungry and we're hot. For a deal that
0:47.1	was supposed to be pre-baked, there's been endless drama and suspense. But in the end, the EU's
0:53.6	leaders finally settled on their roster of names for the
0:56.3	EU's top jobs. First of Lof Hunter Lion, Kayakalis, and Antonio Costa can breathe a sigh of relief.
1:03.8	Well, for now. Well, we've been sitting in this sweltering press room, and let me just be clear, like, this room has a literal glass ceiling, and so we've been in a greenhouse on pretty much the only sunny day in Brussels.
1:21.0	The discussions at the leader's table apparently have also been pretty hot and heavy.
1:25.2	We're told it took a lot of negotiating, wrangling, and
1:29.4	cajoling to get the package through, despite the vocal objections of Italy's Prime Minister
1:34.0	Georgia Maloney and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban. So, what did it take? Will Europe be able
1:42.2	to present a united front? And is this even really the end of
1:46.5	the top jobs discussion given that Fonder Lions victory in the European Parliament is still far from
1:51.4	certain? I'm Sarah Wheaton, host of EU Confidential, coming to you from the European Council Summit.
1:58.3	So to talk us through how the leaders finally solved the top jobs puzzle,
2:04.4	as well as go through some of the other issues that they discussed here, I'll be joined by Politico's
2:08.3	Barbara Moons and Ito Hernandez Morales. Then with my colleague Clea Calcutt, we'll zoom in on
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