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Ep 119, presented by the European Commission: Von der Leyen’s rejection woes — Labour’s Keir Starmer

Ep 119, presented by the European Commission: Von der Leyen’s rejection woes — Labour’s Keir Starmer

FromEU Confidential


Ep 119, presented by the European Commission: Von der Leyen’s rejection woes — Labour’s Keir Starmer

FromEU Confidential

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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Sep 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week’s episode takes us to London, New York and around the Continent. We start in Brussels, where members of the European Parliament rejected the Romanian and Hungarian nominees for the next European Commission over concerns about potential conflicts of interest.Just back from the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Rym Momtaz takes us behind the scenes of Emmanuel Macron’s push to defuse tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Matt Karnitschnig is in Vienna to preview this weekend’s general election in Austria. And we hear from Christian Oliver, POLITICO’s senior policy editor, on what landmark tax rulings by the EU General Court mean for Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.In our feature interview, Keir Starmer, the U.K. Labour party’s shadow Brexit secretary, sat down with POLITICO London Playbook Editor Jack Blanchard moments after a dramatic vote on at the party’s annual conference this week. Starmer talks to Jack about why he thinks Labour would end up backing Remain in a second referendum, despite party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reticence, and reveals that he’s not nearly as “establishment” as you might think. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Sep 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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