A special defense-themed episode of EU Confidential takes you inside the tense NATO summit — where United States President Donald Trump came in like a wrecking ball, and Jean-Claude Juncker left swaying and stumbling.
The stellar interview line-up includes United States ambassadors Alexander Vershbow and Daniel Fried; Beatrice Fihn who leads ICAN, an anti-nuclear and Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign group; the Brookings Institution’s Constanze Stelzenmüller; and POLITICO Contributing Editor Paul Taylor.
In our podcast panel we discuss the massive disruptions the summit caused in Brussels and the all-male task force that spent eight months looking into how the EU could be more effective.
Trump made global waves, but it was Juncker who had right-wingers fuming. They said he was drunk while on duty, but Juncker’s team insists it was simply a case of severe back pain. Judge for yourself in this video — which everyone is talking about in private, but scared to discuss in public.