Brussels Playbook Podcast
Episodes
Episode 111 — Inside UK Parliament's groping, harassment, bullying problem; Jacob Rees-Mogg reaction
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Boris Johnson's begins his term as U.K. prime minister on a fast and furious Brexit course, Annabelle Dickson asks the Conservative leader of the H...
Episode 110: Author Peter May - Boris begins - Martin's move
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Best-selling author Peter May talks about his political thriller set in Brussels, The Man With No Face, just republished four decades after he wrote ...
Episode 109, presented by BP: Mette Grolleman — Debating EU presidency corporate sponsorship
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mette Grolleman runs the biggest lobbying office in Brussels — FleishmanHillard — and isn’t tempted to return to the Berlaymont to work for he...
Episode 108 — Paul Adamson, godfather of Brussels lobbying scene
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest podcast episode, we discuss the life of a lobbyist, the latest in the Brussels hustle, and the recent transatlantic twitterstorm. This w...
Episode 107: Moonshot Venture's Mark MacGann —— President Ursula von der Leyen?
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A surprise European Commission presidential nominee landed on Brussels this week: the polished and much-criticised defense minister of Germany, Ursula...
Episode 106, presented by Bayer: Can capitalism save the planet?
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest in our occasional series focusing on green issues, we ask whether capitalism can save the planet. The European Commission held a sustain...
Episode 105, presented by Romania's EU presidency: David Miliband & political rebrands
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Miliband speaks to POLITICO’s Brexit editor James Randerson in our feature interview this week. It’s delicious timing, given the U.K. is get...
Episode 104: Jean-Claude Juncker & Shada Islam
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hear European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in conversation with POLITICO's Florian Eder, discussing Trump, Brexit and more.Also this week,...
Episode 103: Danny Alexander — Debating the Trump visit
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a week full of world-shaping history, from the 75th D-Day anniversary to the 30th anniversary of the Tianamen Square massacre, our feature intervie...
Episode 102: Martin Selmayr — EU election results
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A look back at the European Parliament election results, and a look ahead to the race for EU top jobs. Ryan Heath interviews Martin Selmayr, the power...
Episode 101: Bruno Le Maire and EU election preview
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bruno Le Maire, French minister of economy and finance, outlines his big ambitions for collecting tax from giant companies, creating a eurozone budget...
XX Factor Episode 5 — UK: Annunziata Rees-Mogg, and MPs Mary Creagh, Jo Swinson, and Helen Whately
19 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After three years of divisive Brexit debate and voting in the United Kingdom, POLITICO's Annabelle Dickson surveyed the damage and opportunities that ...
**Episode 100** presented by Bayer: Air pollution, killing us softly?
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For EU Green Week and EU Public Health Week, we go to an issue at the intersection of those themes: air quality. The World Health Organisation attribu...
Episode 99: Frans Timmermans and Margrethe Vestager, rivals for European Commission president
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We have a double-header this week: interviews with both Frans Timmermans (Socialist) and Margrethe Vestager (Liberal), two rivals to become European C...
XX Factor Episode 4 — What can Europe learn from around the world?
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Sarah Wheaton and featuring Corinna Horst, Lina Aburous, Jacinda Ardern and Lulwah Al Khater, this episode takes us from the Middle East to ...
Episode 98: EU Presidential Debate highlights
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we offer you highlights from Monday's 95-minute EU presidential debate in Maastricht, co-moderated by EU Confidential host Ryan Heath....
Episode 97: Manfred Weber, EPP EU presidential candidate
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's a short episode: just a 20-minute interview with Manfred Weber, the person in pole position to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European ...
XX Factor Episode 3: Women in election media coverage, featuring Marietje Schaake, and Italy
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why do female candidates and politicians receive more negative coverage than men, and why are they seen as less newsworthy? In this episode we look at...
Episode 96, presented by BP: Decoding election betting, polling and journalism
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The European Parliament has wrapped up its current five-year term, and the election campaign now enters into a final five-week sprint. This episode fe...
Episode 95: For & Against the EU — Sandro Gozi & Anders Vistisen
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For or against the EU? It's the biggest European question of all — and we tackled it in a debate in front of an audience in Brussels this week as th...
Episode 94: Emily Thornberry on Labour, Brexit and foreign policy
07 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 93, presented by Bayer: MEP climate debate — Can the EU avert disaster?
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are we headed for climate disaster, and is the EU the solution? That's the question we ask in the second episode of "EU Confidential Goes Green,” th...
Episode 92, presented by Bayer: Amanda Eichel and Stockholm mayor Anna König Jerlmyr
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The first of six special EU Confidential Goes Green episodes between March and September 2019.This episode is all about cities and features interviews...
XX Factor 2 – MEP Mairead McGuinness and the women shaking up Irish politics
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness, vice president of the European Parliament from Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party, talks Brexit, the Irish border and ab...
Episode 91: EU summit — Brexit, Orbán & liberals — Flemish Culture Minister Sven Gatz
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's a summit special this week. POLITICO’s Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz and Florian Eder discussed the topic du jour, Brexit, as EU leaders gathered in ...
Episode 90, presented by Naftogaz: Twitter's Nick Pickles — Syria conference — AKK's vision
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Pickles, Twitter’s senior policy strategist, is our main guest. He responds to heated criticism of Twitter’s handling of free expression, mis...
XX Factor 1 - Women, power and the EU election
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of our new mini-series on women, power and the EU election — a fortnightly spin-off podcast from POLITICO's EU Confiden...
Episode 89: UAE parliament president Amal Al-Qubaisi — Polling guru Cornelius Hirsch
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast features Amal Al Qubaisi, president of the United Arab Emirates' Federal National Council, making her perhaps the most senior fe...
Episode 88: Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a week of geopolitical ping-pong we take a break to dive deeper into the politics of well-being and what it takes to be a great political communica...
Episode 87 — Richard Grenell and Miroslav Lajčák at the Munich Security Conference
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast focuses on the Munich Security Conference, one of the big events on the global political calendar. It features two interviews fr...
Episode 86: Jeremy Hunt, UK Foreign Secretary
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt talks to POLITICO's Ryan Heath in this extra edition of our podcast.Hunt once took heavy fire from Brussels for mak...
Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's feature interview is a 15-minute highlight reel from John McDonnell's already famous interview with POLITICO's London Playbook editor Jack...
Episode 84: The Bellingcat team — Marietje Schaake MEP — U.S ambassador to EU Gordon Sondland
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we bring you the revenge of the geeks! Bellingcat is the world's most surprising and one of its most successful journalism ventures. Founder...
Episode 83: Facebook's Nick Clegg
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook's new global head of public affairs gives his first public interview since starting the job to Ryan Heath. Clegg addresses a growing number o...
Episode 82, presented by BP: Wopke Hoekstra — Sarah Kate Ellis — Brok rocked
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO's Ryan Heath brings you two podcasts in one from the World Economic Forum — our final daily Davos Confidential show also doubles as your re...
Davos Confidential 2019: Ep 3 - Amnesty's Kumi Naidoo — WHO chief Tedros
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kumi Naidoo, secretary-general of Amnesty International, talks to POLITICO's Ryan Heath in our latest pop-up podcast from the World Economic Forum.Rya...
Davos Confidential 2019: Ep 2 - Helle Thorning-Schmidt & Tim Berners-Lee
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Danish prime minister and current head of Save the Children International, is our main guest in today’s pop-up po...
Davos Confidential 2019: Ep 1 - Setting the scene — Nico Rosberg — Resilience ratings
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO’s Ryan Heath is back with another series of daily podcasts from the World Economic Forum. In our first episode of the 2019 edition, Ryan as...
Episode 81: Historian Felix Klos — Divided Europe in data
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the winds of right-wing populism sweep through the world's biggest democracies, from India to the United States, and Brazil to the European Union, ...
Episode 80: Netflix's David Hyman
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix plans 153 original shows in Europe in 2019, worrying local broadcasters and delighting consumers. That level of ambition also leaves the compa...
Episode 79: Gayle Smith — New Year's resolutions & predictions
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gayle Smith, a former journalist and now campaigner against extreme poverty, is our main guest. In our podcast panel, Alva Finn and Lina Aburous discu...
Episode 78: Carles Puigdemont — Ai Weiwei — Tajani awards
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei are our main guests, interviewed live on stage by POLITICO's Ryan Heath.Also, ...
Episode 77: EU presidential contender Frans Timmermans — Tibor Navracsics
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Double-header this week: socialist candidate for European Commission president Frans Timmermans and the European Commissioner for sport, education an...
Episode 76, presented by Ericsson: Carlos Moedas - Macron's climb down - Denmark's immigration plan
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for innovation, research and science, about his passion for zero-emission cities, artificial intellige...
Episode 75, presented by Google: Debating Diversity — Hillary's migrant misfire
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We return to the theme of diversity in Brussels, a year after POLITICO’s Brussels So White article series, which looked at racial diversity and rela...
Episode 74 presented by Tetra Pak: The Green episode, with Ska Keller, Bas Eickhout, Petra De Sutter
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Greens are riding high as they gather in Berlin this weekend for their co-candidates for European Commission president in 2019. A string of national a...
Episode 73, presented by Future Europe Podcast: Rose Gottemoeller — Brexit deal — Merkel's vision
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rose Gottemoeller, NATO's deputy-secretary general, is our main guest this week. She's the highest-ranking female official in the history of the mili...
Episode 72, presented by EFPIA: Bill Browder & Russia — US midterms — Picking politicians
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our main guest is Bill Browder, once the largest foreign investor in Russia but now a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin. He’s the driving force behind...
Episode 71, presented by Google: Malin Björk & Merkel's legacy
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Europe's eyes glued to Berlin this week as the effects of Angela Merkel's partial retirement are digested, this podcast episode looks at what hap...
Episode 70, presented by Thai Union: Special Oceans-themed episode with Karmenu Vella, Werner Hoyer
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First up Justine Maillot from the Surfrider Foundation, a group of activists pushing for healthy oceans from the bottom-up. Then we speak to Davide Ma...
Episode 69, presented by Corteva Agriscience: Bill Gates and Emmanuel Macron's youth wing
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Gates — billionaire tech founder turned philanthropist — is the main guest on this week's podcasts. We focus on why Europe is an aid superpow...
Episode 68, presented by UNESDA: Manfred Weber wants to recast the European Commission presidency
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a wide-ranging interview Weber says Brussels is a "black box" that is disconnected from most Europeans (though he leads its biggest party in the Eu...
Episode 67, Alexander Stubb on why he should be European Commission president
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Stubb lays out his pitch for the European Commission presidency in this week's episode. Stubb is competing with Manfred Weber to be the Euro...
Episode 66, presented by Qualcomm: OSCE chief — Montenegro's foreign minister — MEP expenses
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine, the Balkans, MEPs' expenses, fake news and fallout from the Salzburg summit are all on the menu this week. Our main guests are Thomas Greming...
Episode 65, presented by Google: Emily O'Reilly — Vestager vs. German carmakers — Macron's job tips
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
EU watchdog Emily O'Reilly is our main guest this week. Before heading off to get married, regular host Ryan Heath sat down for a candid chat with th...
Episode 64, presented by Qualcomm: Lyor Cohen — Alain Deneef — Democracy festival
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a bona fide music mogul. Lyor Cohen has been in the business for 37 years, working with musicians who define memories and eras — think th...
Episode 63, presented by Qualcomm: Dimitris Avramopoulos — Selmayrgate — Election fever
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for migration, sets out how the Commission plans to fighting back against populist attempts to hijack...
Episode 62 — Inside Europe's right-wing extremist groups with Julia Ebner
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode revolves around two political hot topics: how Europe should manage the growth of far-right politics across the continent, and whet...
Episode 61: Brexit scenarios unpacked — Headscarf-free holidays
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we hit peak Barnier — the height of the EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier's influence — and the U.K. published its Brexit no-deal cont...
Episode 60: Summer stories — Tattoos to potatoes — Bridge blame game
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we mix the format up: not one guest, but many. We've asked POLITICO reporters to talk us through stand-out stories they've produced this su...
Episode 59: Inside the House of European History
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's interview is with Constanze Itzel, the director of the EU museum, the House of European History, in Brussels.Listen to hear her views on f...
Episode 58: Labor market secrets — EU school rules — Summit entry fee
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's main interview, we hear from Sue Duke, the global head of public policy for LinkedIn. She reveals the labor market lessons to be learne...
Episode 57: Johannes Hahn — Western Balkans — Trump-Juncker love-in
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Hahn, European commissioner for enlargement negotiations and neighborhood policy, talks us through the Western Balkans. It's a region whose c...
Episode 56: Phil Hogan — Amélie de Montchalin (En Marche) — Juncker and Trump stumble
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amélie de Montchalin, a French member of Parliament with Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party explains why its undemocratic to finalise the EU’s nex...
Episode 55, presented by Raytheon: Inside the NATO summit
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A special defense-themed episode take you inside this week’s tense NATO summit and discusses the new specialism of 24/7 POTUS management. The stella...
Episode 54: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg — Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki — EU Parliament expense shock
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A bumper episode featuring NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg who’s got a present for Donald Trump ahead of next week’s NATO summit in Brusse...
Episode 53, presented by Google: Wolfgang Schäuble — Danny McCoy — EU's Migration Troubles
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s summit week: crammed with migration and Trump and eurozone and Brexit and will-Merkel-stay-or-go drama. One man who could benefit greatly from ...
Episode 52, presented by Martens Centre: Women Rule! - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Rome's Roma rhetoric
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s theme is Women Rule! Our feature interview is withPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of U.N. Women, who’s got passionate views...
Episode 51: Helle Thorning-Schmidt — European Parliament election — Migration debate
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Helle Thorning Schmidt, the former Danish PM who's now head of Save the Children International, is our main guest. Host Ryan Heath asks her about tack...
Episode 50, presented by Google: How NGOs lobby the EU — OSF's Patrick Gaspard — Leaders get younger
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A blockbuster episode, our 50th, in which three guests from the world of NGOs talk about the joys of their work and their frustrations at dealing with...
Episode 49, sponsored by Barilla Foundation: Nicola Sturgeon — Journalist's revival — Irish vote
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to host Ryan Heath in an interview recorded in front of an audience at POLITICO's Brussels HQ. Sturgeo...
Episode 48: Big tech’s brain hijack — Data protection D-Day — Zuckerberg’s Brussels moment
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a tech special this week — but you don’t have to be a geek to understand any of it. Host Ryan Heath talks to Tristan Harris, who spent thre...
Episode 47: Combating anti-Semitism — Boosting the Balkans — Europe from afar
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We dive right in with two interviews — the first with the EU’s coordinator for combatting anti-Semitism, Katharina von Schnurbein. Then we speak t...
Episode 46, presented by Grow with Google: Curbing idealism - EESC chief Luca Jahier - Hot mic hell
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 J...
Episode 45: Margrethe Vestager — EU budget battle — Whistleblower protection
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Heath hits the road with Europe’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — darling of Emmanuel Macron and foe of tax cheats and tech gia...
Episode 44, presented by Grow with Google: EU's energy future – Spencer Dale – Macron & Trump
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Dale, the former chief economist at the Bank of England who now holds the same position at energy giant BP, is our main guest this week. He lo...
Episode 43, presented by Grow with Google: Cécile Kyenge — Harassment investigation — Winking Macron
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 42: The Orbán effect — Mr. Data Protection — Harassment at EU gender equality agency
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 41: Bill Gates — Judging junkets — Greek MEPs' special stopover
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 40, presented by Edelman and PAC: Brexit Countdown — Guy Verhofstadt — Brussels Press Revue
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 39: Lithuania's Linas Linkevičius — Artificial Intelligence — Naughty MEPs
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 forei...
Episode 38: President Margvelashvili of Georgia— Ryanair's Michael O'Leary
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Ryan talks to Giorgi Margvelashvili, the president of Georgia who is a doctor of philosophy and was in town for the German Marshall Fu...
Episode 37, presented by DowDupont: Marianne Thyssen — Lulwah Al Khater — Selmayr vs the world
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Heath talks to Marianne Thyssen, the European Commissioner for employment, about how she wants to overhaul EU policies on jobs, education and tra...
Ep. 36 : Tony Blair interview — Food bank furor — MEP of the week
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Blair came to Brussels this week with a clear message, delivered in this week's interview: I’m trying to stop Brexit, and there’s only one sh...
Episode 35, presented by Raytheon: Ben Hodges — Munich Security Conference — Brexit blockbusters
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode features a review of the Munich Security Conference and an interview with Ben Hodges, who recently retired as commanding general o...
Episode 34: Alexander Stubb — Spitzenkandidat — MEP of the Week
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's special guest is Alexander Stubb, the former Finnish prime minister and ex-MEP who is now vice president of the European Investment Bank (...
Episode 33: Nick Clegg — Western Balkans tough love — Lambert van Nistelrooij
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 it...
Episode 32: Czech politics — Slovenian PM Cerar — German car industry experiments
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
Episode 31: Direct from Davos — Dutch PM Mark Rutte — Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've got the lowdown from Davos in another special edition from the World Economic Forum. The podcast features interviews with two prime ministers —...
Davos Confidential 4: Theresa Time — Werner Hoyer — Trump’s warm-up act
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Davos Confidential 3: Europe’s back — Post-rage politics — Modi’s missed chance
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Direct from Davos in our daily podcast, POLITICO’s Ryan Heath, Florian Eder and Matthew Kaminski look forward to an unofficial Europe day at the Wor...
Davos Confidential 2: Talking trade — Digital rights — Desperately seeking Donald
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Heath and Florian Eder bring you the latest from the World Economic Forum in Davos in POLITICO’s special daily pop-up podcast. Ryan talks to Ar...
Davos Confidential 1: Setting the scene - Advantage Angela - Panda scale for speeches
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Davos Confidential: In the first of POLITICO’s daily pop-up podcasts from the World Economic Forum, Ryan Heath and Florian Eder preview this year’...
Episode 30: Estonian president Kersti Kaljulaid — Davos preview — MEP of the Week
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's show features an interview with Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid, the first head of state to appear on the podcast. Kaljulaid explai...
Episode 29: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek - Poland vs Brussels - Harassment survey
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath interviews Daniel Ek, the CEO of global music pioneer Spotify. The music world was a notorious graveyard for online entrepreneurs: unt...
Episode 28: Estonia's EU presidency — Bulgaria's big moment — Iran protests
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kaja Tael, Estonia's ambassador to the EU, reviews her country's six months running the bloc's rotating presidency. Host Ryan Heath also talks to POLI...
Episode 27, presented by Raytheon : 2017 review & NATO’s Jamie Shea
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 27 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast features a review of the year from POLITICO reporters and an interview with NATO's Deputy Assistant S...
Episode 26: Rebooting Brussels — #BrusselsSoWhite — David Davis’s double talk
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 26 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast has just been released, featuring a deep dive into the EU's capital city. We discuss how to improve B...
Episode 25: Herman Van Rompuy & Theresa May's Manic Monday
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Former European Council President Herman Van Rompuy talks to host Ryan Heath about the future of the EU in this week's episode. EU reform and Brexit h...
Episode 24: Glyphodrama — Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis — food safety chief Bernard Uhl
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's show features back-to-back interviews with the European commissioner for health, Vytenis Andriukaitis, who is also a heart surgeon, and Be...