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Leading

122. How Europe can survive Trump (Frans Timmermans)

Leading

Goalhanger Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Are Trump and Putin carving up the world? How should the EU adapt to this new world? What imagination is needed on the political left?  TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics  Twitter: @RestIsPolitics  Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Josh Smith  Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And we are with Franz Timmermans.

0:57.8

Now, Franz Timmermans is a Dutch politician.

1:00.7

I think unless we count Nick Clegg, who's half Dutch,

1:03.2

I think he's our first Dutch politician on leading.

1:07.3

But he's a very unusual Dutch politician.

1:09.4

For a start, he speaks seven languages. He was educated

1:13.3

in four different countries. So therefore, the job that he took as vice president at the European

1:18.9

Commission, you might think, was absolutely made for him. But he left that to become the leader of the

1:26.2

Labour Green Coalition that tried to beat the hard right party

1:31.2

of Gert Wilders in the recent Dutch election and is now therefore leader of the Labour Party in

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