Under the jackhammers on Schuman, Brussels is filling back up for the rentr\u00e9e \u2014 and the fault lines are showing.<\/p>\n
Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by colleagues Clea Caulcutt, Nick Vinocur and Paul Dallison to unpack a cliff-edge week: France\u2019s confidence vote on an austerity budget that could topple Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou and push Paris back into chaos; Europe\u2019s next moves on Ukraine; and Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s big address in Strasbourg on the EU\u2019s place in a shifting world. It\u2019s a tough speech to deliver, with few clear wins to trumpet. <\/p>\n
Plus, our resident comedian brings von der Leyen bingo back: Place your bets on how many times she will say \u201ccompetitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the jackhammers on Schuman, Brussels is filling back up for the rentr\u00e9e \u2014 and the fault lines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11850,1194,1395,6641,34,2000,26256,137613,299,5187,2816,36,37,38,42,44,33109,332,657,49,1220,333,2601,335,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-398786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-austerity","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-competitiveness","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-eu-confidential","15":"tag-eu-state-of-the-union","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-politics","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-francois-bayrou","21":"tag-french-politics","22":"tag-jordan-bardella","23":"tag-marine-le-pen","24":"tag-mario-draghi","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-ukraine","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","29":"tag-vladimir-putin","30":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","31":"tag-war-in-ukraine","32":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149259653664955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}