Summer special: Recommended reading, listening and viewing

Summer special: Recommended reading, listening and viewing

We have all the recommendations you need for reading, listening and viewing to make the most of your summer holiday — courtesy of the POLITICO podcast crew, special guests and our listeners. This extended episode of EU Confidential features entertaining, as well as enlightening, recommendations from POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz and Matthew Karnitschnig. Our executive producer Cristina Gonzalez brings us listener recommendations, and we also hear from some of our special guests over the past months. Here's the full list of tips: Reading "Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" by Julia Ebner (as recommended by Rym) (Bonus track: Julia Ebner was a guest on EU Confidential in 2018. Listen to the episode, with former host Ryan Heath, here.) "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction" by David Enrich (as recommended by Matt) "Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936" by Volker Weidermann (as recommended by Andrew) "Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century" by Wolfgang Schivelbusch (as recommended by EU Confidential listener Jed) "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race" by Walter Isaacson (as recommended by Javier Solana and a listener) "The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect" by Noreena Hertz (as recommended by a listener) "What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society" by Minouche Shafik (as recommended by a listener) "Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent" by Owen Hatherley (as recommended by listener Aisling) "Soul Tourists" by Bernardine Evaristo (as recommended by listener Andrea) "La grande illusion" by Michel Barnier (as recommended by listener Wolfgang) "Alarums and Excursions" by Luuk Van Middelaar (as recommended by listener Murray) "Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine" by Hannah Fry (as recommended by listener Agathi) "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite" by Daniel Markovits (as recommended by special guest Hans Vijlbrief) "Machiavelli: His Life and Times" by Alexander Lee (as recommended by special guest Carl Bildt) "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism" by Anne Applebaum (as recommended by special guest Robert Cooper) "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas (as also recommended by special guest Robert Cooper) Viewing "Gomorrah" (as recommended by Matt) "Succession" (as recommended by Rym) "Lupin" (as recommended by Andrew) Listening "Grande Traversée : François Mitterrand, un mythe français" (as recommended by Rym) "The Rest Is History" (as recommended by Matt) "In Our Time" (as recommended by Andrew) "Second Captains" (as also recommended by Andrew) "The Intelligence" (as recommended by a listener) "WorkLife with Adam Grant" (as recommended by a listener) "Because People Count" (as recommended and hosted by listener Andrea) "How To Fail With Elizabeth Day" (as recommended by listener Agathi) "Mothers of Invention" (as recommended and hosted by Mary Robinson, along with Maeve Higgins and Thimali Kodikara) Programming note: EU Confidential will take a summer break for two weeks. We'll be back in your feed on August 19. See you then! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The border that vanished overnight

The border that vanished overnight

European allies are moving to help strengthen Ukraine as Kyiv ups the pressure in its war against Russia. As a part of that push, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a group of EU leaders a...

15 Jul 15min

A 'Super Tuesday' for a bigger EU

A 'Super Tuesday' for a bigger EU

Enlargement is high on the list of priorities for the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU ... and Dublin is not wasting any time. On the sidelines of the EU’s General Affairs Council happening ...

14 Jul 17min

Why Europe still can’t agree on Israel

Why Europe still can’t agree on Israel

EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels as a growing group of countries push the European Commission to propose restrictions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements. Zoya Sheftalovich and Nick Vinocur...

13 Jul 15min

Week Ender: Why Europe can’t avoid Erdogan

Week Ender: Why Europe can’t avoid Erdogan

This week, NATO leaders gathered in Ankara — giving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a powerful stage at a moment when Turkey’s strategic value to Europe is rising. Sarah Wheaton speaks to Aslı Aydınta...

10 Jul 42min

Brussels gives cows a promotion

Brussels gives cows a promotion

Far-right National Rally’s Marine Le Pen has announced she’ll run in the 2027 French presidential election, following Tuesday's shock court ruling which cleared the way for her to do so. But what does...

9 Jul 15min

NATO’s boss says Trump was right

NATO’s boss says Trump was right

The European Union is in disagreement over whether the Commission should allow Serbia to progress in its membership process. The issue will come to a head at a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels t...

8 Jul 17min

The verdict that could shake up French politics

The verdict that could shake up French politics

Europe is on the edge of its seat as it awaits a crucial verdict in the case of France’s National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen, today. If the Paris appeals court upholds her five-year ban on holding p...

7 Jul 15min

The man behind the EU's Kremlin outreach

The man behind the EU's Kremlin outreach

On today’s episode, we take a closer look at the busy life of António Costa’s right-hand man, Pedro Lourtie. The European Council President’s head of cabinet was recently thrust into the limelight fo...

6 Jul 16min

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