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EU Confidential

Tyrants are forever: Has Europe missed its moment?

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4175 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Under the jackhammers on Schuman, Brussels is filling back up for the rentrée — and the fault lines are showing. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by colleagues Clea Caulcutt, Nick Vinocur and Paul Dallison to unpack a cliff-edge week: France’s confidence vote on an austerity budget that could topple Prime Minister François Bayrou and push Paris back into chaos; Europe’s next moves on Ukraine; and Ursula von der Leyen’s big address in Strasbourg on the EU’s place in a shifting world. It’s a tough speech to deliver, with few clear wins to trumpet. Plus, our resident comedian brings von der Leyen bingo back: Place your bets on how many times she will say “competitiveness.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That is the sound of the Schumann roundabout being taken apart. Exactly as our producer, Deannis, caught it on tape this week.

1:15.0

It feels like the entire European quarter is a construction site again, just in time for what we call the Rontree.

1:25.0

As the bubble fills up again and politics snap back to life, there's a cacophonous metaphor in those jackhammers.

1:33.0

The world order is being redone. Some old foundations cracking.

1:39.6

And some of the would-be architects of that new order, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin,

1:46.2

were just caught on a hot mic in Beijing musing about living to 150 via biotech and organ transplants.

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