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Nicola Caputo
As an MEP, Caputo has mainly distinguished himself by his eagerness to sign non-binding “written declarations” on virtually any health issue, penning his signature to a total of 55 such declarations...
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Elmar Brok
Brok is known as the “father of the house,” with 38 years service as an MEP. He’s also the father of lucrative parliamentary side jobs (others including liberal leader Guy Verhofstadt continue the...
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José Bové
This former French presidential candidate is best known as an anti-globalization activist who once dismantled a McDonald’s restaurant. He certainly isn’t known for overworking in Brussels and...
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Eleonora Forenza
Forenza turned up to a 2017 POLITICO debate among candidates for European Parliament president dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. Forenza’s candidacy (for the European United Left — Nordic Green Left) was...
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Algirdas Saudargas
Low-profile Saudargas employs 17 aides, in addition to paying two outside service providers. Given his low level of activity, that makes him arguably the most overstaffed member of Parliament. (Some...
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Martina Anderson
Anderson is a convicted terrorist who served 13 years in prison for Irish Republican Army activities until she was released as a condition of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. First arrested when she was...
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6 spats between Tusk and Juncker
This week’s virtual fisticuffs between European Council President Donald Tusk and his counterpart from across the road — the European Commission’s Jean-Claude Juncker — over how the EU handles Russian...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 39: Lithuania’s Linas Linkevičius — Artificial...
Russia, artificial intelligence and MEPs who are famous for the wrong reasons all feature in this week’s episode. Host Ryan Heath talks to the foreign minister of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, about...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 40, presented by Edelman and PAC: Brexit Countdown —...
With a year to go until Brexit, we take stock of where things stand and what lies ahead. The European Parliament’s Brexit Coordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, talks to EU Confidential’s executive producer,...
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The world’s most powerful tech regulator: Martin Selmayr
As tech companies across the globe scramble to adapt to the EU’s new digital privacy law, they have one person they should thank. The regulation is the brainchild of one of the most controversial...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 41: Bill Gates — Judging junkets — Greek MEPs’...
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, is this week’s main guest. He talks to Ryan Heath about the work of his foundations, the next EU budget and the Oxfam scandal. And we talk to...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 42: The Orbán effect — Mr. Data Protection —...
Kati Marton, a veteran reporter and author now with the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks to host Ryan Heath about how the reelection of Victor Orbán in Hungary will impact media freedom in...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 43, presented by Grow with Google: Cécile Kyenge —...
Cécile Kyenge, one of the few black members of the European Parliament, talks to Ryan Heath about the obstacles and abuse she’s faced in her career — and what she wants the EU institutions to do to...
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Commission president derby
Aaaaaaand, the race is on. In just over a year, European voters will elect a new European Parliament — and in the process help select the next president of the European Commission, the top job in...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 44, presented by Grow with Google: Down with...
Emmanuel Macron was center-stage again this week, sharing the spotlight with Dandruff-Brusher-In-Chief Donald Trump. Our podcast panelists analyze the body language and the big issues in the Don and...
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The 14 most powerful EU budget players
The grandly titled European Union Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) proposed Wednesday by the European Commission is just that: a proposal. What the EU’s next seven-year budget actually looks like...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 45: Margrethe Vestager — EU budget battle —...
Ryan Heath hits the road with Europe’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — darling of Emmanuel Macron and foe of tax cheats and tech giants — to learn about how one Belgian city went from...
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Vestager keeps Commission presidency options open
MECHELEN, Belgium — European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager spent Thursday taking notes. But it wasn’t Apple’s Tim Cook, Gazprom’s lawyers, or the Trump administration that had the...
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Itay’s president sounds apocalyptic warning on Europe
FLORENCE — The “wind of war is blowing” and Europe’s edifice is shaking, said Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella, in a dramatic speech Thursday morning warning of the dangers of retreat from European...
View ArticleEU Confidential Episode 46, presented by Grow with Google: Curbing idealism —...
Host Ryan Heath talks to author Vincent Stuer about his new book, Curb Your Idealism: The European Union as seen from within. Ryan also chats to Luca Jahier, the new president of the European Economic...
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