Zelensky is our European of the year (with John Kampfner)

The Two Matts

The New World

News, News Commentary, Government, Politics

4.4 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Best-selling author John Kampfner joins The New European team as we look back on a triumphant year for Volodymyr Zelensky and the dangers that lie ahead for Ukraine’s unlikely hero. Plus: What’s behind the coup plot in Germany, will anyone miss Matt Hancock, and who is in our political Hall of Shame? With Steve Anglesey, Eleanor Longman-Rood and Matt Withers. Producer: John Dakin

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1:23.4	on a Q&N-inspired coup attempts in Germany, at a year in which an unlikely hero taught Ukraine and the world about the value of courage and defiance.
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