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The Eurointelligence Podcast

The Eurointelligence Podcast

Wolfgang Munchau

News, Eu, European Politics, Political Economy, Italy, Brexit, Recovery Fund, Political Risk, Business, European Union, Netherlands, Ecb, Economics, Uk, Fiscal Union, Government, Transatlantic Relations, European Integration, France, Geopolitics, Eurozone, Banking, China, Spain, Germany, Political Union, Politics, Trade, Eu-china

4.530 Ratings

Overview

We discuss the most important issues in the EU and eurozone.

163 Episodes

Why Global Imbalances matter

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Trump's administration assault on global imbalances, on cooperative and non-cooperative solutions, and what happens if there is none.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

What European leader will Merz be?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses what kind of European leader Friedrich Merz will be.

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2025

What are tariffs for?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses unilateral and multlateral solutions to the global tariff crisis.

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

Tariffs are firing more than backfiring

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the devastating impact of US tariffs on Europe, and what course Europe will take.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Fight the guy? Really?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses how we should react to Donald Trump's tariffs.

Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2025

After the Le Pen ruling

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Le Pen court case and whether she and her party will get stronger, and more extreme in the process.

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025

Is Nato turning into a protection racket?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Mar-a-Lago accord, its economic rationale, and whether it has the potential to turn Nato into a protection racket.

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2025

How to defend Europe

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the future of European defence policy after Germany exempted defence spending from its debt rules.

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

What next?

Transcribed - Published: 6 March 2025

On the return of Germany's perma-coalition

Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2025

When the US is gone

In our latest podcast, our team discussed Europe after the transatlantic relationship. New possibilities are opening up, especially on defence integration. Another moment of truth for Europe.

Transcribed - Published: 22 February 2025

What should we do about Trump?

In our latest podcast our team discusses good and bad ways to respond to Trump. Should we perhaps not respond at all?

Transcribed - Published: 8 February 2025

Merz' Pyrrhic victory

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the state of Germany three weeks before the elections, with immigration the number one theme, and the AfD the party that will benefit from it.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

What will he do to us?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses what we know - and more importantly what we don't know - about Donald Trump's economic policies and its impact on Europe.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Bayrou, a blast from the past

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the survival chances of Francois Bayrou, France's latest prime minister. Like his predecessor, his future depends on Marine Le Pen.

Transcribed - Published: 15 January 2025

Trump, Musk and us

Happy New Year! In this episode we talk about Donald Trump's interest in Greenland and how the US tech sector dictates the terms of digital services in the EU

Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2025

France and Germany - united in decline

In our last podcast of the year, our team discusses the political and economic malaise of France and Germany, and what they have in common.

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2024

Syria and us

In our latest podcast, our teams discusses the geopolitics after Assad's fall.

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

Now what?

In this episode our team discusses the motivations for the censure motion against Michel Barnier and scenarios of an institutional lockdown

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2024

Was the Green Deal a mistake?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the past and future of the Green deal, whether it is politically sustainable, and whether it can deliver on its targets.

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2024

What to expect from Trump

In our latest podcast, our team discusses what Europeans should be expecting from Donald Trump, and especially what his approach to Ukraine will be.

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2024

No, the EU is not prepared

In our latest podcast, our team discusses Europe's shocking lack of preparedness for Donald Trump.

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2024

Europe's pathetic dependencies

in our latest podcast, our team discusses Europe's dependence on the US, not only for defence but also trade. The problem is that this puts us at the mercy of US voters. It is the dependency itself that is the problem - not on whom you are dependent.

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2024

The tragedy of ASML

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2024

Germany vs the EU

In our latest podcast, our team discusses Germany's futile attempt to block EU car tariffs against Chinese manufacturers, and this says about the state of the union.

Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2024

Squeezed between the extremes

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2024

Politics of fear

Transcribed - Published: 21 September 2024

How to Draghi

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Draghi report and what it would take to implement it.

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2024

Can Barnier fix a broken system?

In our latest podcast, the team discusses the appointment of Michel Barnier as French prime minister, why this suits Le Pen, and how the left managed to turn an election victory into a defeat.

Transcribed - Published: 7 September 2024

Together, disunited

France and Germany both face political gridlock and some gloomy prospects though it plays out quite differently on each side of the Rhine

Transcribed - Published: 31 August 2024

Governo Tecnico, coming to a place near you

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2024

Geopolitics is intruding

Transcribed - Published: 17 July 2024

French menu choices

In our latest podcast our team discusses the options, or lack of, for a French government

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2024

Gridlock in France

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the scenarios for France after the parliamentary elections.

Transcribed - Published: 3 July 2024

The centre is not holding

Transcribed - Published: 29 June 2024

Unfunded

In our latest podcast, our teams discusses one important aspect of the French elections - the choice between three unfunded and unsustainable fiscal policies.

Transcribed - Published: 22 June 2024

Europa

Transcribed - Published: 15 June 2024

Macron's Gamble

In our latest podcast our team discusses Macron's political gamble to call parliamentary elections, and the consequences for French politics and the EU.

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2024

June 9

In our latest podcast before the European elections, we discuss how we see the evolving campaign, and what is at stake.

Transcribed - Published: 5 June 2024

A European coalition of the right?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the potential realignment of the European right, the prospects of a centre-right, right coalition, and the obstacles it might face.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2024

Europse's astonishing lack of ambition

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the European elections, the lack of a unifying theme and the risk of political fragmentation.

Transcribed - Published: 18 May 2024

Spain asserts leadership on Palestine

In our latest episode, our team discusses Spain asserting leadership on Palestine, and on the student protests spilling over to Europe.

Transcribed - Published: 11 May 2024

When it pours in Spain

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the extraordinary gap between the success of Spain's economy and the level of toxicity of Spanish politics.

Transcribed - Published: 4 May 2024

China and us

In our latest podcast, our team discusses Europe's hardening stance on China, and the history of that relationship.

Transcribed - Published: 27 April 2024

Far Right - hopeless but not serious

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the unity, or lack of unity, of the far-right in Europe. The discussion on the migration pact shows that they divide on national lines, and are unlikely to constitute a united political force.

Transcribed - Published: 13 April 2024

How big are we?

In our latest podcast, our team discusses how the difficulty of measuring economic performance, and economic size, is affecting policy decisions, like western support for Ukraine and pension reforms.

Transcribed - Published: 6 April 2024

Dithering over Ukraine

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the shades of grey that have emerged in western countries' support for Ukraine. It's no longer a debate between victory and defeat.

Transcribed - Published: 26 March 2024

Wilders tactical retreat

In our latest podcast, our team discusses Geert Wilder's decision not to become prime minister, and why the far-right Chega is so strong in Portugal.

Transcribed - Published: 16 March 2024

Budgets aren't what they used to be

In our latest podcast, our team discusses the impact of falling productivity growth on budgets, and political cycles. The era of the political budget is over, as we can see in the UK.

Transcribed - Published: 9 March 2024

Europe disunites over Ukraine

In our latest podcast, out team discusses the future of European security without the US, and with France and Germany on opposite sides of the debate.

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2024

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