The best of Power Play 2023
Power Play
POLITICO
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As we enter a mammoth election year on either side of the Atlantic, Power Play looks back on the highlights from our interviews in 2023 to set the scene for the big geopolitical stories of 2024.
In this week's bumper New Year edition, host Anne McElvoy takes a tour through the best of Power Play since the podcast launched last September, talking to some of the most influential figures in the United States, Europe and beyond.
We'll hear from prime ministers, business leaders, diplomats and generals about major conflicts, fraught elections and tussles over how to address climate change
Guests include John Kerry, Rishi Sunak, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Ron Prosor, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Mark Carney, Mathias Döpfner, David Petraeus and Keir Starmer.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that sometimes friends have to speak in our choose to friends. |
| 0:06.5 | If they don't have a plan they better get on it. |
| 0:08.9 | This could be mowgid issue on steroids. |
| 0:11.8 | Is that a message you would drive home to Evelon Musk if you were trying to personalise it? |
| 0:16.7 | And that might like that. |
| 0:17.7 | It's been calm. |
| 0:18.9 | We've had some scuffles and plashes. |
| 0:21.0 | You're damn right. |
| 0:22.4 | The subsidies are crazy. The probably most |
| 0:25.1 | immediately impacted area if there is a change of presidency in the US will be |
| 0:30.1 | Ukraine and the position in Ukraine and we need to be absolutely acutely alert to that. |
| 0:36.0 | Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of Politico's Transatlantic Power Play |
| 0:41.1 | podcast of 2024. |
| 0:44.4 | Since launching this show in September, I've spoken to some of the most influential figures |
| 0:49.1 | on either side of the us and where big geopolitical stories are heading next. |
| 1:04.7 | It's certainly been an eventful few months. |
| 1:07.1 | The war in Ukraine rages on, and the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has filled the |
| 1:12.2 | airwaves making for gruesome headlines at |
| 1:15.1 | political and beyond. As we begin an epic election year in North America in Europe |
| 1:20.5 | we thought it would be a moment to take a breath and listen back to some of my most |
| 1:25.3 | interesting conversations with power players over the first 10 or so episodes. |
| 1:30.9 | Let's begin with my encounter with Sakya Starma, the leader of the Labour Party in the UK. |
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