Political football — EU's big climate combo — Recovery cash

Brussels Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The political repercussions of Euro 2020, a massive package of European climate laws, and the first economic recovery plans approved for EU cash all feature this week. POLITICO's Rym Momtaz joins Andrew Gray to fill us in on French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to give people a big "nudge" to get vaccinated. We get into the politics of Euro 2020 with POLITICO's resident sports expert Ali Walker, along with Annabelle Dickson in London and Hannah Roberts in Rome. The team looks at the aftermath of the final in Italy, where victory played into a bigger surge in the national mood, and England, where fan violence and racist online abuse have dominated the conversation. Here's Hannah's write-up from Rome on Italy's wave of euphoria. This is Annabelle's coverage of the U.K.'s attempt to curb online abuse. And here's Ali's A-Z review of the tournament. Then Kalina Oroschakoff, POLITICO's climate reporter, joins Andrew to break down the big news announced in Brussels this week: a mammoth package of climate laws aiming to cut carbon emissions by 55 percent by 2030. All of POLITICO's coverage of the package — known in Brussels-speak as Fit for 55 — can be found here. Finally, POLITICO's Paola Tamma gets us up to speed on efforts to get EU funds flowing to member countries to finance their post-pandemic recoveries. Paola speaks with Hans Vijlbrief, secretary of state for finance from the Netherlands, who attended a crucial Council meeting this week in Brussels to approve the first 12 recovery plans. 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	So I believe we now have a package that can take us to our goal, which is now a legal obligation of reducing our emissions with at least 55% by 2030, which will set us on a path of climate neutrality.
0:16.9	Welcome to EU Confidential, Europe's number one politics podcast. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's
0:22.5	EU editor in Brussels. And you just heard Franz Timmermans, the European Commission's Green Deal
0:28.2	Chief, unveiling a huge package of measures designed to make sure the EU slashes carbon
0:34.2	emissions in the years to come. We'll talk more about the battles ahead over those
0:39.2	measures later in the podcast. But we've packed a whole lot more of Europe into this podcast as well.
0:45.2	We'll get up to speed on the EU's big coronavirus recovery fund by talking to a senior Dutch official
0:51.4	who was at the table when government signed off on the first
0:55.0	national recovery plans this week and will delve into the political repercussions of the Euro
1:00.8	2020 final with reporters in both Italy and England. But first, let's get a little pandemic
1:08.6	postcard from Paris by checking in with podcast regular Riem Montas.
1:13.7	Hi, Ream.
1:14.3	Hello, all.
1:15.6	So we've only got you for a few minutes, but we did want to make the most of that get a little
1:20.5	postcard from Paris because some quite big news on the coronavirus front, if you like,
1:26.6	this week with President Emmanuel Macron,
1:29.4	setting out a bunch of measures around vaccination and the rules that will apply in terms of
1:35.6	people being vaccinated or not being vaccinated. Give us a quick summary of what Macron said first.
1:41.4	Yeah, so Macron came out and gave his eighth presidential address to the nation since the
1:46.2	beginning of this coronavirus pandemic. And he came as close as he will get, I think, to basically
1:52.7	making vaccination compulsory. So he came out and he said, healthcare workers, people who work in
1:59.3	clinics, they have to be vaccinated by September,
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