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EU Confidential
EU Confidential
POLITICO

EU Confidential is a weekly European news and politics podcast published every Friday by POLITICO Europe. Each 30-minute episode features POLITICO’s analysis... more

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Episodes

A divorce and a birthday: Five years of Brexit, 10 years of POLITICO

With POLITICO turning 10 and Brexit hitting 5 earlier this year, this episode of EU Confidential takes stock of two... more

25 Apr 2025 · 44 minutes
Holiday special: Driving toward a trade war with China

​This week, EU Confidential is on a spring break — but with trade tensions between the U.S. and the rest... more

18 Apr 2025 · 31 minutes
Trump blinks on tariffs. Can Europe exhale?

A tariff storm was brewing — and then, just like that, the forecast changed. Donald Trump shocked everyone by pausing... more

11 Apr 2025 · 30 minutes
Beautiful beef: Le Pen, Varoufakis and the horseshoe theory of politics

What do Marine Le Pen, Yanis Varoufakis and Donald Trump have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of... more

04 Apr 2025 · 42 minutes
Erdoğan, not Trump, is Europe's new best friend on security

Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the main political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been arrested. So what... more

28 Mar 2025 · 36 minutes
Dirty games in Brussels and war games in Europe

A lobbying frenzy, secret perks, and now police raids. Huawei’s cozy ties in Brussels have exploded into a full-blown corruption... more

21 Mar 2025 · 33 minutes
Can EU leaders handle a world on fire?

100 days in, Europe’s top leaders are facing a reality check.  Ursula von der Leyen talks about a new sense of... more

14 Mar 2025 · 39 minutes
The US-EU breakup—what does it mean for Ukraine, and for peace?

This week’s episode of EU Confidential comes to you from Thursday’s emergency meeting of EU leaders — the political equivalent... more

07 Mar 2025 · 39 minutes
Can Germany’s next chancellor help Europe deal with Trump?

Germany has voted, and Friedrich Merz is now the chancellor-in-waiting. But can he rise to the occasion? With Donald Trump... more

28 Feb 2025 · 41 minutes
Germany votes, Trump attacks, Europe reacts

Europe suddenly has to do it all — all alone, all at once. Still in shock after U.S. President Donald Trump’s... more

21 Feb 2025 · 38 minutes
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A divorce and a birthday: Five years of Brexit, 10 years of POLITICO
EU Confidential