The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 19 – with Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch
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🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hermann Tertsch is a Spanish Member of European Parliament (ECR – Vox), elected in 2019. Before that, he worked as a journalist for about 40 years, amongst others for Spanish press agency EFE, center-left newspaper El País, conservative newspaper ABC, Telemadrid and Radio Nacional de España.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eueditor Pieter Cleppediscusses the following topics with him:
- The ECR's decision to walk out from the Conference on the Future of Europe
- What's the best way to get the EU back on the path of a vehicle to open up trade?
- What to think of the EU financing arms transfers to Ukraine?
- The current political situation in Spain, including the Catalan quest for more autonomy
Transcript
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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 Klepper. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm the editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.E.U. |
| 0:25.4 | And I'm very happy today to have as my guest, Spanish MEP Hermann Terch. |
| 0:31.4 | So welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:34.3 | So thank you, thank you. |
| 0:36.3 | So Hermann Terche is a long-time journalist, a 40 years of experience in Spain as a journalist, also as an international correspondent. |
| 0:46.3 | I saw in Yugoslavia. |
| 0:48.1 | He's the author of many books, also novels. |
| 0:52.0 | And since a few years, he's also a member of European Parliament for Vox. So it's |
| 0:59.4 | great to have you here. And I think the first subject I want to discuss is the conference on the |
| 1:05.2 | future of Europe. I mean, notably the ECR, they decided to walk out of this conference. |
| 1:14.4 | So what's your opinion on this? |
| 1:16.7 | Well, we did well. |
| 1:18.1 | I mean, there was a discussion if we should have participated in general in it. |
| 1:25.4 | But, well, it was fine to be there to see that everything confirmed |
| 1:30.1 | the worst fears |
| 1:32.0 | that it's really a farce, |
| 1:36.1 | I really predidated, |
| 1:37.9 | the question which, |
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