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6 days ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton
Presented by Instagram By SARAH WHEATON with ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH PRESENTED BY HOWDY. Sarah Wheaton here, welcoming you to this Friday edition of Brussels Playbook.
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6 days ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton |Dionisios Sturis |Anne Mcelvoy
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Europe’s political center is wobbling. Again. In Germany, a dramatic Bundestag vote leaves new Chancellor Friedrich Merz bruised before he’s even begun. In Romania, the first round of the presidential election wipes out the mainstream — and puts a Trump-admiring provocateur on top. EU Confidential breaks down a week of shaken coalitions, rising populists, and what they all say about the shifting balance of power in Europe. Host Sarah Wheaton is...
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton
Presented by Instagram By SARAH WHEATON with ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH PRESENTED BY HOWDY. Sarah Wheaton bringing you this Tuesday edition of Brussels Playbook.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton
Presented by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) By SARAH WHEATON with ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH PRESENTED BY HOWDY. Sarah Wheaton here.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton |Dionisios Sturis |Anne Mcelvoy
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music After 100 days of U.S. President Donald Trump’s shock and awe, is the EU still stuck in stunned paralysis — or does it finally have a plan? POLITICO trade reporter Camille Gijs, tech reporter Eliza Gkritsi, defense editor Jan Cienski and senior climate correspondent Karl Mathiesen join host Sarah Wheaton to unpack the EU’s response on multiple fronts. Plus, Max Griera and Aitor Hernández-Morales break down the controversy around the European People’s...
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton
Presented by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) By SARAH WHEATON with ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH PRESENTED BY WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Mark Carney’s Liberals won the Canadian election, pulling off a huge political comeback made possible by Donald Trump’s antagonism. Our Canadian colleagues have all the details.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton
POLITICO’s must-read briefing on what’s driving the day in Brussels, by Sarah Wheaton and Nicholas Vinocur. By SARAH WHEATON A NOTE TO OUR READERS: This week marked 10 years since the launch of POLITICO Europe — once a small digital start-up and now a formidable newsgathering enterprise across the continent.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton |Dionisios Sturis |Anne Mcelvoy
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music With POLITICO turning 10 and Brexit hitting 5 earlier this year, this episode of EU Confidential takes stock of two milestones that shaped Brussels — in very different ways. Host Sarah Wheaton kicks things off with Zoya Sheftalovich, editor of Global Playbook, reflecting on POLITICO Europe’s early days and its first big scoop: Jean-Claude Juncker’s kidney stones. Then we head to Maastricht for highlights from a debate organized by Studio Europa...
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Sarah Wheaton |Dionisios Sturis |Anne Mcelvoy
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music This week, EU Confidential is on a spring break — but with trade tensions between the U.S. and the rest of the world (China in particular) escalating, we thought it was the perfect moment to revisit a timely episode from our archives. As Trump’s new trade war heats up, with triple-digit tariffs hitting Chinese goods and Beijing retaliating, the global trade landscape is shifting dramatically. These developments have significant implications for...
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Sarah Wheaton
“How can EPSO be such a failure every single time?” wrote another. This test was for candidates hoping to get a job as a translator working in one of eight different EU languages. 9,663 people took partOne candidate who received the email Thursday said she had spent an hour every day for several weeks revising for the tests, which include language knowledge, verbal and numerical reasoning.
