Hello Alex and welcome back.

Hello Victor, happy to be back. It's good to be back indeed, especially

on such a wonderful day. I mean, this episode will be published later on, but today we

learn that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the US presidency. Indeed, it is November 7th,

a Saturday, and we're recording in the afternoon, and yes,

but we're not going to talk about the US presidency or US politics.

Absolutely not. No, no, no. There is too much talk out there about this.

Yeah, and we're not expert enough, I think, to have any opinion on that.

But we are called, or our podcast is called EU Untangled.

So we talk about the EU.

And today we have quite a big topic, actually, as a first topic of our, or after our reboot of our podcast, which is

the European Green Deal.

Oh yeah.

It's a huge topic.

I must say, though, it's not new at all.

So this is a topic that has been going around for quite a long time now.

But of course, it's probably the cornerstone of EU policy and politics these days.

And I am absolutely thrilled to talk about it today.

Yeah, and maybe one little point why we chose that topic also as a start.

It's a good question. Why did we choose it?

Yeah, it's a good question.

I think, so two things I believe are quite interesting here.

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