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EU Confidential

The EU's new power pyramid and migration escalation

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Live from Strasbourg… and Paris… and Berlin… and London, it’s EU Confidential. In this week’s episode, we catch you up on a dizzying week of news. We start with the inside dish on Thierry Breton’s high-drama departure from the European Commission, followed by analysis of who’s really in charge now that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has debuted her new team, with POLITICO’s Marion Solletty and Eddy Wax. Host Sarah Wheaton also sits down with current (and likely future) climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, and we debut our new series of mini-profiles, Berlaymont Who’s Who, with an introduction to Kaja Kallas, the EU’s next foreign policy chief. And that’s not all: Migration is roiling domestic politics around the bloc. POLITICO’s Hans von der Burchard and Rosa Prince talk about how the left-leaning leaders of Germany and the U.K. are taking cues from the far-right on keeping migrants out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So this noise you're hearing?

0:05.0

I'm at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

0:09.0

I followed Ursula von der Leyen here as she finally revealed her lineup of new commissioners.

0:14.0

Hannah Virkunen, Stefan Sejone, Kayakhalas, Raksana Minzatu, Rafael Fitt, Raffka Suitsa,

0:21.6

Riva Haleighi,

0:22.6

Kostas Karis,

0:23.6

Ria Albuquerque,

0:25.6

Hadja Labib,

0:26.6

Pieter Serafin,

0:27.6

Magnus Brunan.

0:28.6

That was the event of the week.

0:30.6

And it's not the end

0:32.6

of the election campaign season

0:34.6

that started back in March,

0:36.6

but it's the first sign of

0:38.2

whether von der Leyen is actually going to keep her political promises and what her real policy

0:43.2

priorities are. Now we know the names of von der Leyen's top team.

0:47.7

Rossevkovich.

0:48.8

E. Katarina Zaharyewa, Christof Hansen, Marta Coes, Bebke-Horchstraff.

0:55.0

And the issues they'll be responsible for.

0:57.0

Valdis Dombrovsky's, Jessica Oswald, Joseph Sikella, Dan Jorgensen, Michael McGrath,

1:03.0

Apostolos Tic Costas, Andrius Cubilius, Glenn McCull.

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