Key EU policies — how will they change after the vote?

EU Confidential

POLITICO

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

With just a week to go until the European election and the campaign in full gear, we're focusing on how the vote will impact key EU policies such as health, energy, climate, technology and defense. Will they be affected by the shake-up of the bloc's political landscape and the arrival of new MEPs and commissioners — or will continuity with the policy priorities of the last five years prevail? And what about the money to finance new and super costly defense ambitions and the green transition? Will the predicted surge of the far right affect these dynamics? To answer these questions, we bring you a special episode. It's a conversation that took place recently at an exclusive, invitation-only POLITICO event organized for our Pro Connect subscribers — usually under Chatham House rules. It's moderated by POLITICO's policy editor Joanna Roberts, and her guests were: POLITICO's technology and competition editor Aoife White, energy and climate editor Cory Bennett, health editor Helen Collis and Jan Cienski, our senior policy editor and an expert on mobility and defense. The event was part of our POLITICO Pro Connect "In Conversation with" series, which you can learn more about here. Finally, we'll be recording a special livestream edition of EU Confidential on Sunday, June 9 starting at 8:30 p.m. as the EU election results roll in. Register here to watch live! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Guys, we're only one week away from the European Parliament election.
0:37.0	The campaign is finally fully on, and it's bloody.
0:42.3	Think of the far-right identity and democracy group,
0:45.1	who recently expelled the German AFD from their ranks.
0:49.0	Think of the socialists with their grandstanding
0:51.4	and their ultimatum to Ursula Fonderlyon.
0:54.8	They said they wouldn't support her bid for another term as commissioned president
0:58.1	if after the elections she chooses to work with Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney, and other hard-right politicians.
1:05.5	The gloves are off.
1:10.0	But for this episode, we thought we would put political punches aside for a while and try to look ahead, beyond the campaign, the polls, and the lead candidates.
1:18.6	We want to focus on policy and how it will be affected by the June vote. What will happen to the green transition, for example?
1:25.6	Will the EU's post-pandemic focus on health shrink away to make room for more muscular defense
1:30.7	ambitions? Does it all depend on who gets elected? Or is the policy machine oiled enough to
1:35.8	keep rolling regardless?
1:38.8	I'm Sarah Wheaton, host of EU Confidential. And this week, I'm passing that host baton to my colleague, Politico's policy editor, Joanna Roberts.
1:47.0	She recently moderated an exclusive Politico Pro Connect event.
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