EU Confidential special edition: Emily Thornberry on Labour, Brexit and...
Emily Thornberry, the U.K. Labour Party’s shadow foreign secretary, is our guest in this special edition of EU Confidential. The show was recorded on Sunday in London in front of an audience at...
View ArticleEU Confidential Goes Green
This episode is all about cities and features interviews with Amanda Eichel, executive director of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and Anna König Jerlmyr, the mayor of Stockholm...
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Marine Le Pen
Few MEPs have inspired the levels of both hatred and admiration that Le Pen has elicited during her time in politics. It runs in the family: Her father Jean-Marie (a fellow former MEP) is one of her...
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Beatrix von Storch
One of this term’s most controversial figures, von Storch is a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany now serving in the Bundestag after a three-year stint in Brussels and Strasbourg. The...
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Vicky Ford
Ford, now a British Conservative national MP, will be best remembered as the MEP who turned Brussels’ dream of ending mobile roaming charges into reality. Ford was critical to defending Britain’s...
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Marietje Schaake
Schaake ran the first successful digital-first campaign to get elected to Parliament in 2009, and went on to became one of the savviest legislators on digital issues, leaving her mark on export control...
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Jan Philipp Albrecht
Parliament’s “Mr. Data Protection” did something few MEPs can claim to have done. He helped set the global agenda on a hot political topic: data privacy. Albrecht got his version of the EU General Data...
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Kaja Kallas
Kallas left the European Parliament in 2018 to lead her liberal Reform party to victory in Estonia’s national election last month. She is now attempting to find coalition partners to enable her to...
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Andrej Plenković
Plenković is an increasingly rare breed of European politician, a low-key and successful moderate who describes himself as “devoid of extremes and populism.” He left national politics in Croatia, where...
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Martin Schulz
The former European Parliament president suffered one of the biggest political falls in recent years. His expansive view of the institution’s presidency — in which he cast himself as Parliament’s...
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Ingeborg Gräßle
As chair of the Budgetary Control Committee, Gräßle is a fierce advocate for EU institutional transparency and is often the biggest critic of her own European People’s Party. For example, Gräßle...
View ArticleEU Confidential episode 95: For & against the EU — Sandro Gozi & Anders Vistisen
For or against the EU? It’s the biggest European question of all. In the new episode of our EU Confidential podcast, you can hear highlights of our debate on that topic recorded in front of an...
View ArticleUK electorate deeply split ahead of EU election
British voters are heavily fragmented and no party is on course win more a quarter of the votes, if the United Kingdom participates in the May 23 European Parliament election. Labour is the clear...
View ArticleEU Confidential episode 96, presented by BP: Decoding election betting,...
The European Parliament has wrapped up its current five-year term, and the election campaign now enters into a final five-week sprint. The new episode of our EU Confidential podcast features a...
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EU election rivals vie for high ground over troublemakers
The lead candidates in next month’s European Parliament election have taken swipes at each other over accusations of tolerating undemocratic behavior within their political families. Manfred Weber of...
View ArticleEU Confidential episode 97: Manfred Weber, European Commission presidential...
Listen to this week’s EU Confidential podcast on Spotify | Apple | SoundCloud | Stitcher This week it’s a short episode: just a 20-minute interview with Manfred Weber, the person in pole position to...
View ArticleEU Confidential episode 98: EU presidential debate highlights
In our latest podcast, we have highlights from Monday’s 95-minute EU presidential debate in Maastricht. Co-moderated by EU Confidential host Ryan Heath, the debate featured five candidates for...
View ArticleVoter essentials: Everything you need to know
Find all the election details in POLITICO’s 28 country factsheets.
View ArticleSpotify releases EU election playlist
Music giant Spotify is diving into the European Parliament election which takes place May 23-26. Around 70 million Spotify users — more than one in six potential voters in the EU — will receive a...
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