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Europe on a Power Trip Episode

9 November 2020

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

autonomy, strategic, europe, eu, european, china, unanimity, people, nathalie, french, security, mantra, world, eu foreign policy, countries, brussels, macron, includes, european council, democracies

James Kanter 00:52

Strategic autonomy. It's become the mantra for European union officials. It started as a broadly French idea: that Europe needs sufficient military power to promote peace and security independent

Nathalie Tocci on strategic autonomy | Joe Biden's victory | French nukes | China Decoupling | EU majority voting | Mehreen Khan of the FT | Truth to Power | Be the Squirrel | Vaccine race | New Hanseatics | Charles Michel finds a mission | Thierry Breton and tech sovereignty

Emilia Roig | Colour-evasiveness in France | Post-racialism in Germany | The European Commission and identity politics | Proxies and disaggregated data | Intersectionality and neutrality laws | Roma rights | Katrin Langensiepen | Black Lives Matter | Anti-Discrimination Directive | Sheltered workshops

Doxing on Twitter | Irantzu Varela of El Tornillo | Death threats by direct message on Facebook | Simeon Vasilev of the GLAS Foundation | Toxic Masculinity | Asha Allen of the European Women's Lobby | The EU Digital Services Act | Guillermo Beltrà of Osepi

Botkyrka | Punk and Ebba Grön | The EU Asylum and Migration Pact | Greece and Turkey | The Great Replacement and toxic conspiracies | Feminist jewellery | #LoveIsEssential | Sweden Democrats | Clearview AI | Police and minorities | Algorithmic bias

Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | Diversity and Team von der Leyen | Face-painting with Didier Reynders | Protecting Europe with Margaritis Schinas | Counting colonies with Charles Michel | The Great Replacement | Racist policing | Ylva Johansson on whiteness

Racist policing | Gender bias | 'Black Mirror' style mass surveillance | Samira Rafaela | Joanna Bryson | Sarah Chander | Patrick Breyer | European data spaces | iBorderCtrl | Palantir Technologies and the NHS | Facial recognition | Pressure on Clearview AI

Frans Timmermans on fighting authoritarianism | Unmasking Farage | A rebrand for Europe Day | Donald Tusk | Olivér Várhelyi | Chasing Orbán | Coronavirus and the Green Deal | Better buildings | 55 percent | Bruce Springsteen | Joseph Roth

Car abatement accelerates as lockdowns ease | Pollution as a vector for the virus | Brussels urbanism chief Pascal Smet on a big bang for mobility | Mark Watts of C40 Cities on the pace of change in Amsterdam and Paris | Pollution lobbies and their playbook

Marco Zatterin of La Stampa | Ursula von der Leyen apologises to Italy | Lagarde's gaff | Salvini and Meloni | The spectre of Italexit | Newspapering under lockdown | Giovanni Belzoni | Poems from Ben Ray