Welcome to the first edition of the Brussels Playbook Podcast!<\/p>\n
In the debut episode, Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart break down two big questions facing Brussels: How far is the EU willing to go to bring Ukraine into its fold? And can Europe finally get serious about fixing its economy?<\/p>\n
First, Ukraine and enlargement. EU officials are quietly exploring unconventional options<\/a> to move Kyiv closer to the bloc \u2014 potentially as early as next year \u2014 as talk of a possible peace deal grows and uncertainty around the U.S. deepens.<\/p>\n Then, competitiveness. Ahead of a closed-door leaders\u2019 retreat later this week, EU capitals are under pressure to revive Europe\u2019s sluggish economy and cut internal barriers that have held growth back for years.<\/p>\n Ian and Zoya also ask what the recent closure of Irish pubs Kitty O\u2019Shea\u2019s and De Valera\u2019s \u2014 two key Brussels institutions for talking shop over a beer \u2014 means for the informal spaces where EU politics has long been done.<\/p>\n And we\u2019d love to hear from you \u2014 where are people now going instead?<\/p>\n Send us your pub tips, memories or voice notes. We may play some of them in a future episode. Messages can be anonymous.<\/p>\n Our WhatsApp number is: +32 491 05 06 29<\/a><\/p>\n **A message from Amazon: Across Europe, businesses are growing with the AWS Cloud\u00a0to build innovative, scalable products. From Europe\u2019s largest enterprises and government agencies to the continent\u2019s fastest growing startups, learn more about how AWS Cloud is helping businesses across Europe grow at AWS.eu<\/a>.**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the first edition of the Brussels Playbook Podcast! In the debut episode, Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,226,228,184,6550,233,6805,3039,3041,237,431,238,241,76,1888,4038,1887,3399,4583],"class_list":["post-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-brussels-playbook-podcast","tag-competitiveness","tag-donald-trump","tag-enlargement","tag-european-politics","tag-growth","tag-hungary","tag-ireland","tag-playbook","tag-rule-of-law","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}