
Episode 91: EU summit — Brexit, Orbán & liberals — Flemish Culture Minister Sven Gatz
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 Brussels. They also chewed over Viktor Orbán’s Fides...
21 Mar 201937min

Episode 90, presented by Naftogaz: Twitter's Nick Pickles — Syria conference — AKK's vision
Nick Pickles, Twitter’s senior policy strategist, is our main guest. He responds to heated criticism of Twitter’s handling of free expression, misogyny, disinformation and transparency.“Increasingly, ...
14 Mar 201934min

XX Factor 1 - Women, power and the EU election
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 Confidential.Our timing for episode one could hardly be bett...
12 Mar 201931min

Episode 89: UAE parliament president Amal Al-Qubaisi — Polling guru Cornelius Hirsch
This week’s podcast features Amal Al Qubaisi, president of the United Arab Emirates' Federal National Council, making her perhaps the most senior female politician in the Arab world. We cover a lot of...
7 Mar 201937min

Episode 88: Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister
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 communicator, with the 38-year-old prime minister of New Ze...
28 Feb 201934min

Episode 87 — Richard Grenell and Miroslav Lajčák at the Munich Security Conference
This week’s podcast focuses on the Munich Security Conference, one of the big events on the global political calendar. It features two interviews from POLITICO’s chief Europe correspondent Matt Karnit...
21 Feb 201929min

Episode 86: Jeremy Hunt, UK Foreign Secretary
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 making a comparison that invoked the EU and the Sovie...
19 Feb 201926min

Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?
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 Blanchard. In addition to discussing Brexit next ...
14 Feb 201932min




















