Brussels Playbook Podcast
Episodes
Episode 23: Olympic committee chief — EMA, EBA to Amsterdam, Paris — Failed German coalition talks
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 23 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast features Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee. This week, we've got two...
Episode 22, presented by Ørsted: Statoil CEO Eldar Sætre — White supremacy in Europe
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 22 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast features Eldar Sætre, the CEO of Norway's oil and gas company Statoil. We spoke to Sætre on Novembe...
Episode 21: Greek opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis — Oettinger's car clash — UK Cabinet chaos
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath interviews Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the head of Greece's New Democracy party and opposition leader in parliament. The outsider and the Mit...
Episode 20: Historian Rolf Falter — Catalonia comes to Brussels — Harassment scandal
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Heath interviews Rolf Falter, a historian who has worked across the Belgian and EU political landscapes: from adviser, to journalist, to get-out-...
Episode 19: Harassment discussion — Hope for change — Maroš Šefčovič interview
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 19 of EU Confidential features a special discussion on the issue of sexual harassment and assault in the EU Brussels bubble. The podcast also ...
Episode 18: EU Commissioner Vĕra Jourová — Remembering Daphne Caruana Galizia — Catalonia dilemma
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 18 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast features an interview with European Commissioner Vĕra Jourová, who leads the EU's work on data prot...
Episode 17, presented by AB InBev: Athens Mayor — EU Committee of Regions President
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 17 of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast features back-to-back interviews with Karl-Heinz Lambertz, president of the European Committee of the...
Episode 16: Telia's Johan Dennelind — Global Policy Lab — Catalan independence referendum
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath talks to POLITICO's chief Europe correspondent Matthew Karnitschnig about a homegrown journalism experiment: POLITICO's first Global P...
Episode 15: Catalan independence debate — German election — Court confusion
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In a special episode this week, we feature interviews from both sides of the Catalan independence debate ahead of the Catalan regional government's re...
Episode 14: NationBuilder's Toni Cowan-Brown — German election — Boris Johnson's fact and fantasy
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath interviews Toni Cowan-Brown, a vice president at NationBuilder, the software company that has powered election campaigns for Emmanue...
Episode 13: Tomáš Valášek — Juncker's State of the Union — Catalonia
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Heath interviews Tomáš Valášek, the former Slovakian ambassador to NATO who heads the Carnegie Europe think tank. As Russia begins its Zapad...
Episode 12: David McAllister MEP - London Playbook's Jack Blanchard - Azerbaijan Scandal
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan heath talks to David McAllister, head of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and a key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merk...
Episode 11: EU rights expert Michael O'Flaherty — Poland's peril — Macron's make-up
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Regular host Ryan Heath is back with an interview with Michael O’Flaherty, the head of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. The interview, recorded at ...
Episode 10: Brexit & Ireland — John Bruton — Trump's tax break
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While regular host Ryan Heath recovers from his holiday jet lag, news editor Andrew Gray presents an interview with former Irish PM John Bruton on Bre...
Episode 9: NATO's Petr Pavel — German election campaign — Britain's Brexit papers
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Regular host Ryan Heath is on holiday but the podcast rolls on with news editor Andrew Gray standing in once more. This week, we've dug into the archi...
Episode 8: Emmanuel Macron interview — Commissioners' expenses — Brussels networking tips
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Europe might be slowing down for the summer but we're still going strong. Regular host Ryan Heath is on holiday so news editor Andrew Gray stands in t...
Episode 7: Anders Fogh Rasmussen — Russia, Ukraine and the US — Greece's scapegoat statistician
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, host Ryan Heath sits down with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general and now adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Porosh...
Episode 6: Violeta Bulc — Ryanair to Brexit rescue? — Endless car scandals
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Violeta Bulc, the European transport commissioner and a taekwondo black belt, explains why she’d have Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary as a B...
Episode 5: Taavet Hinrikus — Digital Regulation — David Davis: genius or fool?
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mark Scott, POLITICO Europe's new chief technology correspondent, talks to us about the trends he sees as tech companies deal with the reali...
Episode 4: Marietje Schaake — Politics of EU-Japan deal — Parliament's PhD babysitter
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Christian Oliver, POLITICO Europe's trade editor, talks us through the astonishing speed with which the EU completed its trade deal with Jap...
Episode 3: Victoria Espinel — What Brexit's broken — European Parliament harassment
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath, author of POLITICO's Brussels Playbook, talks to journalist Frances Robinson about the things Brexit has already wrecked — before i...
Episode 2: Ángel Gurría — EU's Googlewhack — Interns in bikinis backlash
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath speaks to Ángel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), who explains why it ...
Episode 1: Cecilia Malmström — Brexit talks
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After two pilot shows, host Ryan Heath brings you the first official episode of POLITICO’s new podcast all about the EU and European politics. Ryan ...
Bonus Episode: Erna Solberg
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ryan Heath gets some tips for Brits from Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg about what it's like to be closely linked to the EU but not part o...
Pilot episode: Pierre Moscovici
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this pilot episode of POLITICO's new podcast, EU Confidential, host Ryan Heath talks to European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici about the future of ...
EU Confidential Trailer
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A sneak preview of the new podcast from Politico Europe. Coming soon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about yo...