Hungary's would-be PM — Rule-of-law ripples — German coalition talks

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We talk to Péter Márki-Zay, the man chosen by Hungarian opposition parties to take on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Also in this episode, we have an update on the EU's rule-of-law battle and get you up to speed on talks to form a new German government. As EU leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss everything from energy to trade, they couldn't escape another topic dominating the headlines: the recent Polish court ruling that challenged the legal bedrock of their union. POLITICO's Rym Momtaz joins Andrew Gray to explain how the ruling is being used by mainstream candidates vying to be the next French president to bash the bloc and assert France's national sovereignty. And POLITICO's Matthew Karnitschnig brings us the latest on efforts to form a new German government by the center-left Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats. Then we meet Péter Márki-Zay, selected by an alliance of opposition parties in Hungary to be their candidate for prime minister in a parliamentary election next spring. POLITICO's Lili Bayer caught up with Márki-Zay at a campaign rally in Budapest. You can always send feedback or ideas directly to the podcast team at podcast@politico.eu. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	EU Confidential gets started right after this.
0:04.1	Today's episode is presented by Fuels Europe.
0:07.4	A study from Imperial College London consultants
0:10.0	shows there is sufficient sustainable biomass feedstock
0:13.4	available to support an ambitious low-carbon liquid fuel strategy for EU transport.
0:19.2	Learn more at www.fuelessEurope.org.
0:24.1	The people of Central and Eastern Europe wanted to join the European family of free people,
0:30.4	a strong community of values and democracy.
0:33.3	The recent ruling of the Polish Constitutional Court puts much of it into question.
0:40.8	Welcome to EU Confidential, the number one European politics podcast.
0:45.3	I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels.
0:48.8	And it's another busy week in European politics.
0:52.1	We've got an EU summit in Brussels Thursday and Friday,
0:55.2	focusing on issues including energy prices, migration, trade, COVID-19. And as if that wasn't
1:02.1	enough, they'll once again tackle rule of law concerns among some of the EU's own member
1:07.8	countries. You just heard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
1:11.8	taking a pop at Poland earlier this week in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. That was during
1:17.9	a debate with Polish Prime Minister Mateus Maraviyetsky and the subject was of course that
1:23.4	recent court ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that effectively declared
1:28.3	the primacy of Poland's own national constitution over EU treaties.
1:33.3	If you haven't already, be sure to listen to last week's episode where we explain exactly
1:38.3	what the ruling says and what it could mean for the EU.
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