On Orbán's messy breakup and drama in Northern Ireland

The Eurointelligence Podcast

Wolfgang Munchau

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4.6 • 38 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Eurointelligence team discusses Orbán's exit from the EPP, seismic shifts in Italian politics, tension and drama in Northern Ireland, and the unloved conference on the future of Europe.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Paige and this is the Eurointelligence podcast covering current affairs in the
0:05.1	EU and Eurozone. I'm joined by Wolfgang and Susanna, directors of Eurointelligence in Oxford.
0:11.0	Guys, the big story this week was a very messy breakup or looking at Hungary.
0:15.3	We've been waiting for this moment that Victor Orban finally leaves the EPP, we never thought of what happened,
0:23.6	being, you know, this sort of playing it to both sides type game. But in the end, I suspect it must
0:30.0	have proved too much. But do we, do we know what happened? Do we know what will happen to the EPP?
0:35.3	Oh, my goodness. That's a big question.
0:42.7	I myself am not sure what exactly happened because when I wrote about this, the EPP establishing its task force to examine changing the rules back in January, I did describe it
0:48.9	as a robust PR exercise.
0:50.9	So that was my bad.
0:52.1	I'm sure.
0:52.6	No, no, I'm sure it was a robust PR exercise. I think events intrude it
0:56.8	most likely. Well, this was coming from
0:59.8	basically a meeting of the group in September
1:02.0	where Donald Tusk told everyone that there just wasn't enough
1:04.5	support in the party to get rid of Fiddash.
1:07.8	He was saying, you know, some members wanted to keep hungry close for tactical
1:13.1	reasons. Some actually agreed with his ideological stance. And then others just, you know, didn't
1:17.9	have the support that they needed to get rid of him. But something changed between basically
1:21.8	September and January. And suddenly the EPP, I guess, felt confident enough to move forward with the
1:27.4	changes to these rules,
1:29.0	which saw Badesh leave the parliamentary group, but not the party alliance.
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