Monsieur Brexit(cast) Returns

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Michel Barnier’s surprise selection as French Prime Minister, and a “historic success” for the far-right in Germany.

The EU’s former Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has been named as the new French prime minister in a surprise announcement by Emmanuel Macron. But will this finally break the deadlock in Paris?

And, Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the election in the eastern state of Thuringia. But how much of a threat are they to the current government?

Adam is joined by Mujtaba Rahman, Europe managing director at the Eurasia Group, Rym Momtaz, editor in chief of Strategic Europe at Carnegie Europe, and Katya Adler, BBC Europe editor. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by the “famous” Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I feel we should call this an emergency episode of Brexit cast, our predecessor Brexit
0:10.1	themed podcast, because Michelle Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator then, has today
0:16.2	been named by Emmanuel Macron as his candidate to be the new Prime Minister of France, the
0:22.1	result of a lot of political wrangling in Paris.
0:26.3	Now I've gone back through the archives to chart my relationship with Michel Barnier and we're best to look then his own book his secret Brexit
0:36.5	diary where I appear not once not twice but three times.
0:42.7	Should we read them out?
0:43.8	Okay, oh, if you insist.
0:45.9	Right, November 2018, he says,
0:48.8	we know that the situation in London is extremely fragile.
0:51.8	When Adam Fleming of the BBC asks me, so are you
0:54.5	going to have some champagne? I answer, certainly not. We're going to drink water and
0:58.6	continue with our work. Classic Michelle. I used to do that every time there was a
1:02.4	big milestone. You can have a glass of champagne?
1:04.0	He'd say no every time. Right, I'm not sure which date this is.
1:08.0	This morning, on my way to buy Quasons for David Davis, I bump into the BBC's Adam Fleming, who's quick to relay all the news.
1:17.5	And then the third mention, oh this is the best one. This was in May 2018 and it was after he'd done a speech about
1:26.0	defense and he says in the question and answer that follows the BBC journalist Adam Fleming
1:31.1	is the first to ask me about the state of the negotiations.
1:34.0	We're told that very little progress has been made in the latest rounds of negotiations.
1:38.0	Is that your assessment? That's me. He says,
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