Book Club: The Scent of Wild Animals
EU Scream
English - November 05, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNews Comedy europe european union politics european politics progressive human rights civil rights democracy media environment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Liberal lawmaker Sophie in 't Veld says the European Union's survival depends on overcoming creeping sclerosis, ending acquiescence to autocrats, and embracing the kind of political spectacle that captures the public imagination. In her new book, The Scent of Wild Animals, Sophie writes that too much EU politics takes place behind closed doors, with no sensory experience for citizens. Her remedies include recasting the European Parliament's deference to the European Council and emboldening the Parliament to dismiss the European Commission when it fails to enforce EU law. "I see my colleagues looking at me as if I'm Che Guevara, you know, some very dangerous revolutionary or something," says Sophie, a four-term member of the European Parliament from the Dutch D66 party who recently withdrew from the race to lead Renew Europe. "But I wonder why?"
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