Inside the POLITICO 28 gala: Europe’s most powerful players (and hangover)

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week's episode of EU Confidential takes you inside the POLITICO 28 gala, where we revealed our list of the people who will drive the year ahead. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO Editor-in-Chief Jamil Anderlini and senior reporter Aitor Hernández-Morales to discuss how a vacuum in the EU's traditional power centers and growing disillusionment with traditional parties is giving rise to a new class of influential Doers, Dreamers and Disrupters in this year’s power ranking. Among them: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who Sarah interviewed at this week’s P28 gala. Be sure to check out the full 2025 ranking here. Then, we’ll check in on Romania, where a court recently cancelled a presidential election that drove ultranationalist Călin Georgescu into the second round. The court cited malign interference on TikTok, but opposition figures say it’s just the establishment trying to hold on to power. POLITICO’s Carmen Paun and Pieter Haeck unpack how it’s playing out in Bucharest and Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	We want Ukraine to win. This is Claire.
1:09.8	That was the EU's new foreign policy chief, Kayakalis, speaking to me this
1:14.7	week at our gala dinner, where we unveiled Politico's annual list of the people we think will wield
1:20.2	the most power in the year to come. The Politico 28, class of 2025. Members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen, friends.
1:30.1	And let me tell you, it was quite the event.
1:32.4	Thank you very much for joining us and what has become the most significant social event on the Brussels calendar.
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