Slovenian EU presidency — Champagne spat — Digital expert Marietje Schaake

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Slovenia's awkward start to its EU presidency and a look at why Russia has France fizzing over Champagne feature this week. And our special guest is former MEP Marietje Schaake on transatlantic tech regulation. POLITICO's David M. Herszenhorn tells Andrew Gray about his recent trip to Slovenia for the start of the country's six-month stint as president of the Council of the EU and analyzes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's terse warning for Slovenia's controversial prime minister, Janez Janša, about the importance of upholding EU values. POLITICO's Rym Momtaz brings us up to speed on a bubbling geopolitical brouhaha between Russia and France after Vladimir Putin signed a law banning foreign sparkling wine producers from using the term "Champagne" — even those produced in France's famed, wine-growing region that gives the drink its name. Former Dutch MEP and digital expert Marietje Schaake is our special guest. In conversation with POLITICO's Laurens Cerulus, Schaake reveals why she left the European Parliament in 2019 to move to Stanford University in Silicon Valley as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center. After working for years to regulate tech from within the European Union, Schaake reflects on these efforts from her new transatlantic perspective. Laurens has more from the conversation in this week’s Digital Bridge newsletter. 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	EU Confidential gets started right after this short message.
0:04.9	Today's episode is presented by SQM.
0:08.0	At SQM, we use scientists-led close digital monitoring of the local environment
0:12.3	and collaboration with global sustainability experts to keep our lithium extraction processes sustainable.
0:19.0	A presidency has an important role to play on current rule of law files, because at such a
0:26.3	crucial moment as we collectively prepare and finance our recovery, trust is our most valuable
0:34.1	asset.
0:35.9	Welcome to EU Confidential, the number one European politics podcast.
0:40.8	I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels.
0:44.3	And you just heard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,
0:48.0	with some words of welcome and more subtly also a few words of warning
0:52.6	for Slovenian Prime Minister Yanises Yansha as his government
0:56.4	takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. Yansha is, to put it mildly, a controversial
1:03.9	figure and we'll get into how he and the rest of the EU are going to get along over the next six
1:09.9	months in just a moment with our
1:12.0	podcast panel. We'll also discuss how Russia managed to get France fizzing over champagne.
1:18.7	And later in the podcast, you'll hear from Maritia Shaka, former Dutch politician who spent
1:24.2	a decade in the European Parliament trying to regulate big tech companies before
1:29.4	giving up that career and moving to the United States.
1:32.9	She has a new vantage point now, but she's still very focused on the power of technology
1:38.0	and how politicians should handle it.
1:40.7	But first, let's get to that podcast panel.
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