Explore every episode of the podcast The Eurointelligence Podcast
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| Caving in to Trump | 17 Jul 2025 | 00:28:06 | |
In our last podcast before the holidays, our team discusses the European response to Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. The Europeans are all over the place, with the Germans ready to accept any deal, and the French willing to respond with the most extreme policy instruments available to the EU.
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| What to do about China | 11 Jul 2025 | 00:50:49 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses the EU's complicated, and deteriorating relationship with China.
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| Let's all borrow some money | 04 Jul 2025 | 00:53:09 | |
In our latest, long, podcast, our team discusses the consequences of higher government debt in all of the west's large economies. We are not going to grow out of this.
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| What will 5% buy? | 27 Jun 2025 | 00:53:37 | |
In our latest, long-form, podcast our team discusses what will defence spending of 5% buy, whether it will make us more secure, and how it will be financed.
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| Team Iran vs Team Israel | 19 Jun 2025 | 00:47:25 | |
In our latest one-hour podcast, our team discusses global consequences of the Israel-Iran war, and its geopolitical and geoeconomic consequences. In our special section, we have an in-depth discussion about the effect on oil prices, and the limits and extent of solidarity amongst the Brics countries.
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| Caught in a triangle | 11 Jun 2025 | 00:51:18 | |
This is the start of our new extended two-part podcast. Today's theme are the widely underestimated supply chain interdependencies between China, the US and the EU. In part 1, we give the big picture. In part 2, we deep-five into details - how it affected mechanical engineering, and the defence sectors, amongst others.
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| Why the Far Right is winning | 05 Jun 2025 | 00:36:08 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the persistent political success of far-right parties in Europe, and about the dilemma the centrists have put themselves in.
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| Let Battle Commence | 29 May 2025 | 00:32:58 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses what to expect to happen in the remaining six weeks of the US-EU trade talks. The discussion took place just before Wednesday's ruling by the New York federal trade court, which struck down Donald Trump's global tariffs. In our view, the ruling, even if confirmed by higher courts, will not affect the US/EU trading relationship in a material way.
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| Centre vs Far-Right - the new divide | 22 May 2025 | 00:33:04 | |
in our latest podcast, our team discusses the elections in Romania, Poland and Portugal, and what the strength of the far-right says about the state of Europe.
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| Why Global Imbalances matter | 16 May 2025 | 00:34:49 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Trump's administration assault on global imbalances, on cooperative and non-cooperative solutions, and what happens if there is none.
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| What European leader will Merz be? | 10 May 2025 | 00:36:13 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses what kind of European leader Friedrich Merz will be.
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| What are tariffs for? | 25 Apr 2025 | 00:31:18 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses unilateral and multlateral solutions to the global tariff crisis.
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| Tariffs are firing more than backfiring | 18 Apr 2025 | 00:34:35 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the devastating impact of US tariffs on Europe, and what course Europe will take.
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| Fight the guy? Really? | 10 Apr 2025 | 00:30:30 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses how we should react to Donald Trump's tariffs.
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| After the Le Pen ruling | 02 Apr 2025 | 00:35:41 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Le Pen court case and whether she and her party will get stronger, and more extreme in the process.
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| Is Nato turning into a protection racket? | 26 Mar 2025 | 00:39:27 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Mar-a-Lago accord, its economic rationale, and whether it has the potential to turn Nato into a protection racket.
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| How to defend Europe | 18 Mar 2025 | 00:28:39 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the future of European defence policy after Germany exempted defence spending from its debt rules.
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| What next? | 06 Mar 2025 | 00:33:16 | |
In this episode our team discusses the German debt brake, European defence and Donald Trump | |||
| On the return of Germany's perma-coalition | 27 Feb 2025 | 00:34:55 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the German elections, the return of the old coalition, the fate of the Greens, the rise of the Left Party, and why debt brake reform is really difficult. | |||
| When the US is gone | 22 Feb 2025 | 00:30:37 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discussed Europe after the transatlantic relationship. New possibilities are opening up, especially on defence integration. Another moment of truth for Europe.
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| What should we do about Trump? | 08 Feb 2025 | 00:33:39 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses good and bad ways to respond to Trump. Should we perhaps not respond at all?
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| Merz' Pyrrhic victory | 31 Jan 2025 | 00:31:22 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the state of Germany three weeks before the elections, with immigration the number one theme, and the AfD the party that will benefit from it.
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| What will he do to us? | 24 Jan 2025 | 00:31:44 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses what we know - and more importantly what we don't know - about Donald Trump's economic policies and its impact on Europe.
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| Bayrou, a blast from the past | 15 Jan 2025 | 00:28:05 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the survival chances of Francois Bayrou, France's latest prime minister. Like his predecessor, his future depends on Marine Le Pen.
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| Trump, Musk and us | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:29:13 | |
Happy New Year! In this episode we talk about Donald Trump's interest in Greenland and how the US tech sector dictates the terms of digital services in the EU
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| France and Germany - united in decline | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:43:43 | |
In our last podcast of the year, our team discusses the political and economic malaise of France and Germany, and what they have in common.
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| Syria and us | 11 Dec 2024 | 00:26:19 | |
In our latest podcast, our teams discusses the geopolitics after Assad's fall.
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| Now what? | 05 Dec 2024 | 00:34:24 | |
In this episode our team discusses the motivations for the censure motion against Michel Barnier and scenarios of an institutional lockdown
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| Was the Green Deal a mistake? | 27 Nov 2024 | 00:29:29 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the past and future of the Green deal, whether it is politically sustainable, and whether it can deliver on its targets.
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| What to expect from Trump | 14 Nov 2024 | 00:26:07 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses what Europeans should be expecting from Donald Trump, and especially what his approach to Ukraine will be.
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| No, the EU is not prepared | 06 Nov 2024 | 00:31:24 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses Europe's shocking lack of preparedness for Donald Trump.
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| Europe's pathetic dependencies | 24 Oct 2024 | 00:30:24 | |
in our latest podcast, our team discusses Europe's dependence on the US, not only for defence but also trade. The problem is that this puts us at the mercy of US voters. It is the dependency itself that is the problem - not on whom you are dependent.
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| The tragedy of ASML | 17 Oct 2024 | 00:27:31 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses how ASML became a victim of Europe's industrial policy, and Europe's geopolitical dependence on the US. | |||
| Germany vs the EU | 09 Oct 2024 | 00:27:14 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses Germany's futile attempt to block EU car tariffs against Chinese manufacturers, and this says about the state of the union.
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| Squeezed between the extremes | 28 Sep 2024 | 00:29:07 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses how the political centre gets squeezed in France, the Netherlands and Germany, and good and bad ways for centre parties to deal with the far-right. | |||
| Politics of fear | 21 Sep 2024 | 00:28:23 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses the politics of fear in Europe - with a focus on immigration and the de-industrialisation. | |||
| How to Draghi | 12 Sep 2024 | 00:26:41 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the Draghi report and what it would take to implement it.
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| Can Barnier fix a broken system? | 07 Sep 2024 | 00:32:21 | |
In our latest podcast, the team discusses the appointment of Michel Barnier as French prime minister, why this suits Le Pen, and how the left managed to turn an election victory into a defeat.
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| Together, disunited | 31 Aug 2024 | 00:30:23 | |
France and Germany both face political gridlock and some gloomy prospects though it plays out quite differently on each side of the Rhine
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| Governo Tecnico, coming to a place near you | 25 Jul 2024 | 00:29:31 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses what could be Italy's most successful export - governo tecnico, or government by bureaucrats. It's happened in the Netherlands, and may soon be happening in France. | |||
| Geopolitics is intruding | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:28:52 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the implications on Europe of US tariffs, under a Trump presidency, and of China's accelerating push into manufacturing. | |||
| French menu choices | 10 Jul 2024 | 00:27:21 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses the options, or lack of, for a French government
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| Gridlock in France | 03 Jul 2024 | 00:19:37 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the scenarios for France after the parliamentary elections.
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| The centre is not holding | 29 Jun 2024 | 00:33:09 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the weakness of the centre in European politics - and what it should do, but most likely won't. | |||
| Unfunded | 22 Jun 2024 | 00:30:33 | |
In our latest podcast, our teams discusses one important aspect of the French elections - the choice between three unfunded and unsustainable fiscal policies.
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| Europa | 15 Jun 2024 | 00:33:20 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses how the EU will change, or rather not change, after the European elections. | |||
| Macron's Gamble | 13 Jun 2024 | 00:30:34 | |
In our latest podcast our team discusses Macron's political gamble to call parliamentary elections, and the consequences for French politics and the EU.
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| June 9 | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:35:00 | |
In our latest podcast before the European elections, we discuss how we see the evolving campaign, and what is at stake.
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| A European coalition of the right? | 29 May 2024 | 00:29:52 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the potential realignment of the European right, the prospects of a centre-right, right coalition, and the obstacles it might face.
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| Europse's astonishing lack of ambition | 18 May 2024 | 00:30:50 | |
In our latest podcast, our team discusses the European elections, the lack of a unifying theme and the risk of political fragmentation.
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