The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 3 - with WSJ Berlin correspondent Bojan Pancevski
The Brussels Report Podcast
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🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Bojan Pancevski is the Germany Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, based in Berlin. He is a native of North Macedonia. Before writing for the WSJ, he was covering Europe at large as The Sunday Times' EU Correspondent in Brussels, from 2009 on. Previously, he was based for the same newspaper in Vienna and Berlin, covering Central and Eastern Europe. He also is a book author and has been selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The FIFA scandal’.
He has extensively focused on EU affairs, European politics and diplomacy, migration, terrorism and German politics.
In this third episode of the Brussels Report Podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses with him the European Commission's track record on vaccine procurement, what to expect from Germany’s parliamentary election later this year and the effect on Germany’s EU policies as well as the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the third episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Peter Klepper. I'm the editor-in-chief of Brusselsreport. |
| 0:23.3 | .EU. And I'm really happy today to have as my guest the Berlin correspondent of the Wall Street |
| 0:31.9 | Journal, one of the best newspapers in the world. Boyan Panchevsky. |
| 0:38.7 | Boyan is originally from Macedonia, or we should say North Macedonia now. |
| 0:44.4 | I know him for a very long time. |
| 0:46.9 | Before he was with Walser Journal in Berlin, he was the EU correspondent for the Sunday Times, another top newspaper in Brussels. |
| 0:59.2 | So you can say that he knows the ins and outs of EU policy. |
| 1:06.1 | And more than that, if I'm not mistaken, before he was the Brussels EU correspondent of the Sunday Times, |
| 1:13.4 | he was based in Vienna. |
| 1:16.2 | So he's a perfect German speaker, so he knows German and Austrian politics, I think, very well as well. |
| 1:27.0 | So welcome, Boyan, and it's great to have you here. |
| 1:31.3 | Hey, Peter. |
| 1:32.0 | It's good to be, good to be on the program. |
| 1:35.2 | Well, let's start right away with it. |
| 1:38.0 | So on Brussels report, we've also been highlighting this, the EU vaccine procurement, which some have called a disaster. |
| 1:48.5 | And this is something that you have been covering extensively. |
| 1:53.0 | I mean, you were really ahead of the game, I think, highlighting how, for example, I remember in July 2020, |
| 2:02.6 | Pfizer was already very successful with development of this life-saving COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 2:12.9 | And of course, the role of the European Union is of enormous importance here, because what we can see now is that the United Kingdom is opening up. |
| 2:28.1 | To a degree, the United States is also opening up, whereas in Europe, and specifically in Germany, things are going really slow. |
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