The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 17 – with Croatian MEP Ladislav Ilčić
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ladislav Ilčić is a Member of European Parliament for Croatia, sitting with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR). He is a member of the “Croatian Sovereignists” party, a former member of the Croatian Parliament (2015-2016), special adviser to the ministers of Foreign Affairs (2016-2017) and Culture (2017-2018), and has served as city councilor on the Varaždin City Council (2013-2017). He is also an accomplished musician, a violinist and member of the Symphonic orchestra of the Croatian radio/ television since 1995.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- The Conference on the Future of Europe and the ECR Campaign around this
- The conclusions of the ECR’s conference on the Western Balkans, the local situation and the responsibility of the European Union
- The idea of a “mini-schengen” for the six Balkan countries that are currently not a member of the EU
- His vision for the EU, and the importance of the subsidiarity principle
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to a new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Peter Clappe. I'm the editor-in-chief of Brussels Report podcast. My name is Peter Clappe. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm the editor-in-chief of Brussels report, |
| 0:25.1 | and I'm very happy to have with me today, |
| 0:28.7 | Ladislav Ilchich, who's an MEP for Croatia. |
| 0:35.7 | He's a member of the ECR group, the European Conservatives and Reformists. In Croatia, |
| 0:43.9 | he's a member of the party Croatian sovereignist. He's a father married with six children, |
| 0:52.4 | and a professional violin player, an academic musician so I think |
| 0:57.5 | that that's wonderful so very welcome mr. Ilchich yeah thank you for invitation |
| 1:03.0 | I'm very glad that I'm with you so today we will discuss the conference on the on |
| 1:09.3 | the future of Europe which has been going on for about a year now, a bit less, I think. |
| 1:18.2 | And of course, on Brussels report, we have been rather critical. |
| 1:23.4 | Now, the ECR has also been hosting a number of conferences. |
| 1:27.3 | So, Mr. Ilshed, what's your take on this whole initiative? |
| 1:32.3 | So, first, I'm really glad that we think about the future of European Union, that we don't take it for granted. |
| 1:40.3 | But I have some objections to how it works. |
| 1:46.6 | For example, these things with citizens, which I think it is very, it could be very dangerous |
| 1:54.1 | because we have a democratic approach that we are also, as politicians, we are also citizens. |
| 2:01.6 | So for example, in Croatian media, yesterday we had a report which said that no, |
| 2:11.6 | that citizens were not part of the discussion about the future of European Union until now, what is actually |
| 2:23.2 | a lie? |
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