Davos Confidential 4: Theresa Time — Werner Hoyer — Trump’s warm-up act
Ryan Heath and Matthew Kaminski look ahead to Theresa May’s appearance in Davos, hot on the heels of speeches by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. Also in the daily podcast, they discuss U.S....
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Davos elites get a dose of the Trump First message
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump came to Davos and gave a pro-growth, pro-America message exactly the way his economic team wanted him to say it: In calm, coherent words designed to reassure...
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The 2018 Davos Awards
The World Economic Forum’s annual Alpine bash came to an end Friday with a gaffe-free speech from Donald Trump. Elsewhere there was plenty going on, but some things deserve special recognition. They’re...
View ArticleBrexit puts EU sacred cows on a diet
The European Investment Bank (EIB) — the go-to institution for funding new EU projects — and the EU’s Court of Auditors lined up Thursday to tell officials in national capitals and Brussels that,...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 32: Slovenian PM Miro Cerar — Development bank chief...
It’s a bumper episode this week. We hear from POLITICO’s man in Prague, Siegfried Mortkowitz, about the good cop-bad cop Euroskeptic routine coming out of the Czech capital, and we catch up with a cast...
View ArticleBelgium pressured to extend voting rights to all Brussels residents
The European Union institutions are used to coming under fire for having a democratic deficit: today it’s Belgium’s turn. A group of Brussels residents Wednesday launched a #1Bru1Vote campaign to...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 33: Nick Clegg — Western Balkans tough love — Sexism...
EU politics this week was all about shrinkage and enlargement. The shrinkage of course is Brexit, with the U.K. government again failing to set out its negotiating position and Michel Barnier sweeping...
View ArticleNick Clegg backs ‘constitutional crisis’ to halt Brexit
British MPs should vote to reject the government’s final Brexit plan when it comes to a vote later this year — even though that will trigger a constitutional crisis, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 34: Alexander Stubb — Spitzenkandidat — MEP of the Week
We’ve just released this week’s EU Confidential podcast, with special guest Alexander Stubb, the former Finnish prime minister and ex-MEP who is now vice president of the European Investment Bank...
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Martin Selmayr, consummate politician in civil servant’s clothing
The European Commission enters uncharted political territory with the appointment of Martin Selmayr as its new secretary-general. The 47-year-old German lawyer — a product of the European People’s...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 35, presented by Raytheon: Ben Hodges — Munich...
We’ve just released a new edition of the EU Confidential podcast, featuring a review of the Munich Security Conference and an interview with Ben Hodges, who recently retired as commanding general of...
View ArticleTony Blair: Just weeks left to stop Brexit
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will say in a speech Thursday that there are just weeks left to stop Brexit and EU reforms centered on immigration control are key to persuading Britons to...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 36: Tony Blair — Food bank furor — MEP of the week
Tony Blair came to Brussels this week with a clear message, delivered in this week’s podcast interview: I’m trying to stop Brexit, and there’s only one shot left — European immigration controls. If...
View ArticleBlair to Brussels: Swallow your pride to stop Brexit
Tony Blair thinks there’s a 50 percent chance of stopping Brexit — but only if the EU plays its part. Without new EU immigration controls, and British MPs deciding to send a final Brexit deal to a...
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EU Confidential Episode 37, presented by DowDuPont: Commissioner Marianne...
In the new EU Confidential podcast, Ryan Heath talks to Marianne Thyssen, the European Commissioner for employment, about how she wants to overhaul EU policies on jobs, education and training to meet...
View ArticleQuiz: I say Slovenia, you say Slovakia
If you woke up Thursday confused to read news reports on the resignation of the Slovenian prime minister and the Slovakian prime minister — and wondering if it was just a typo — you weren’t the only...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 38: Meet the new Michael O’Leary — Georgia on my mind...
In this week’s podcast Ryan talks to Giorgi Margvelashvili, president of Georgia and doctor of philosophy. Margvelashvili talks about his view about Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that “what...
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Petra Kammerevert
A clear conflict of interest hasn’t stopped Kammerevert from serving as co-rapporteur on the Audio-visual Media Services Directive, which seeks to introduce levies and cultural quotas on services like...
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke
After a long laudable career fighting communism in his native Poland, Korwin-Mikke has spent his time in Brussels happily seeking the limelight with controversial comments. He has questioned whether...
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen would make this list even he wasn’t seen as having denied the Holocaust multiple times. In 2018, the European General Court ruled that Le Pen should pay back more than €320,000 for...
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