Oliver Crook
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Oliver Crook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Bloomberg News Now · US-Iran's Provisional Deal, Russian Drone Hits Romania, More · 29 May 2026
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Africans need to invest.
There are deals to be done and business to be won.
The United States found that actually the quickest way to pull troops out of Europe was to block the rotation that was coming into Poland.
And obviously, Poland is seen as a more model ally at the moment to the United States because they're not being as disparaging as Donald Trump.
And they sort of reversed that move, saying that actually they're going to send 5,000 troops to Poland.
So I think net, we're talking about still a reduction in troops for the Germans, but they didn't want to punish the Poles.
Interestingly, for some reason, Donald Trump cited the fact that the Poles had elected the president who was an ally of Trump, but that was August of last year.
So anyway, it was sort of a jumbled message here, but it seems that broadly speaking, still their plan is to remove troops from Germany.
They don't want to punish Poland.
And overall, we should say that the American posture is they do want to reduce their troop levels in Europe overall.
What you had last night was the meeting of the trilogue.
This is the sort of synonym for reconciliation, the discussions that happen at the European level to try to get this now new amended trade deal across.
It did not make a sort of big breakthrough, the sort of swift resolution that Trump wanted.
But we did hear from the EPP party.
This is the biggest party in European Parliament.
basically the final rounds of negotiations with eu member states and the european commission will be scheduled for the 19th of may with the european parliament's final vote expected in june now there are two scenarios here one they get this through the us is happy the second is you start to get these u.s auto tariffs you go back to square one we don't think that's likely because of course the europeans didn't want to deal with the trade war to begin with much less now when there's this issue of straggflation sort of hanging over the economy here
So really a very significant change here, obviously has huge ramifications for the European Union.
Viktor Orban very frequently the only thorn in the side of European Council decisions, basically blocking things, including that loan to Ukraine.
And we should say that really this feels a little bit like a different election campaign than many of the ones that I've covered across Europe.
It was really very intensely emotional on the banks of the Danube last night.
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