From the Baltic to the Balkans: Putin is testing European leaders
Brussels Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
4.4 • 204 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.3 | Bloomberg follows the money. |
| 0:05.4 | Because behind every headline is a bottom line. |
| 0:09.3 | Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings, |
| 0:13.8 | there's a money side to every story. |
| 0:16.5 | And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss. |
| 0:20.8 | Get the money side of you understand what others miss. |
| 0:22.3 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:25.3 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:30.6 | Here's one way to measure the mood in Brussels this week. |
| 0:37.0 | The U.S. EU trade deal is moving forward because Europe has written in a good escape hatch. |
| 0:45.6 | There have been months of arguments. But finally, lawmakers, capitals, and the European Commission landed a deal to implement the Turnberry trade agreement. Yep, that's the one Ursula Fonderlyon |
| 0:51.4 | and Donald Trump struck at a golf course in Scotland last summer. |
| 0:55.8 | The basic bargain is still uncomfortable for a lot of people in Brussels. |
| 1:00.2 | The EU lowers tariffs on many U.S. goods, while hoping Washington sticks to its side of the deal. |
| 1:06.7 | But Parliament pushed in some off-ramps, too, including ways for the EU to suspend parts of the deal if the U.S. changes course yet again. |
| 1:14.8 | So transatlantic trade survives, but with a very large asterisk. |
| 1:21.6 | And that was only one part of the week. |
| 1:24.4 | Across Europe's eastern flank, drone incursions have been setting off alarms, literally. |
| 1:30.2 | In recent days, NATO jets have been scrambled after drones entered the airspace of Latvia, |
| 1:35.2 | Lithuania, and Estonia. And here's the crazy thing. Those drones were Ukrainian. But Keev insists |
| 1:41.5 | that these weren't deliberate incursions, and actually the result of Russian |
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