Podcasts

The Pfizergate scandal broke in 2021, revealing that during the pandemic, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had negotiated a contract for 1.8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla via mobile phone texts that remain undisclosed to this day.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has started touring member states to rally support for her second mandate and strengthen relationships with national centre-right leaders. The latest visits were to Split, Croatia, and the Italian capital Rome.

North Macedonia's newly elected president, hailing from the nationalist VMRO party, which won the parliamentary election this month, refused to use the country's official name at her inauguration, setting it on a collision course with its neighbours and Brussels. 

The 2004 Big Bang enlargement altered Europe's geopolitical landscape and, though its pace has slowed since then, new member states continue to influence and shape the EU's agenda and policies.

Fossil fuel intensive industries will soon have to pay for their carbon emissions, according to the new Europe-wide carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS2).

Following the EU and NATO condemning Russian cyber espionage group APT28 last week, we talked to independent cyber policy expert Pavlina Pavlova about APT28’s methods.

Despite being at the head of a fossil fuel empire at a time the union is traversing a green transition, Daniel Kretinsky has managed to stay off the radar. That was until the Czech billionaire started acquiring media through Europe.

While middle-income countries are leading contributors to global emissions from the agrifood system, the wealthy economies should lead increasing investments and shifting to sustainable diets, a recent report from the World Bank highlights.

After the European Parliament elections in June, the fate of 119 legislative files unfinished in this mandate will hang in the balance.

Today in Paris, Chinese President Xi Jinping is embarking on a rare visit, where he will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

This week, we are discussing the artificial intelligence liability directive (AILD), a key part of the EU's continuously evolving digital rulebook.

EU countries generally agree that green technologies are crucial to meet climate targets and stay competitive in the renewable energy market. They agree less on how to boost their competitiveness vis-à-vis the United States and China. 

Controversial and popular in Germany, but relatively unknown in Brussels, Marie Agnes Strack Zimmermann nomination to lead candidate of the liberal party ALDE has taken most by surprise.

After being neglected for years in the public debate, agriculture has become a hot topic at the EU level in recent years.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU, we are talking about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who will announce today whether he will step down from office or continue to lead the country.

Together with Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the CEPS Unit on Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy, we break down the Letta report's key technological insights.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’, we talk about espionage in Europe as more and more politicians have been accused of having ties with foreign governments in the past month.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’, we talk about Fratelli d'Italia, whose most influential members are gathering at a two-day conference in central Italy that begins tomorrow.

With only a bit more than a month to the European parliamentary elections’ polls are focusing on the performance of the political groups, the seats they may get in the parliament and on what is worrying EU citizens.

If you are a citizen from one of the 27 countries that are members of the European Union, you have less than seven weeks before you are called to the polls for the European Parliament election, the first after Brexit.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’ we’re all about the last plenary session in Strasburg.

Last week, the EU Parliament voted to pass amendments to Eurodac, previously a fingerprints database, along with a new Migration Pact to boost border security.

In today's episode of Today in the EU, we decrypt the 147-page long report by former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta that all EU institutions have been waiting for. Letta's analysis of the EU's single market was commissioned by the European Council a year ago.

Germany’s coalition government has many battles to tackle internally and externally and seems more divided than ever.