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The Absolute State of the Union
I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
English - September 19, 2020 11:40 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBGovernment irish politics militarism afet antiwar envi ireland socialism brussels inta politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Clare and Mick conduct a post mortem on President Ursula von der Leyen's "State of the Union" address. Finally we're talking about a coordinated European COVID response, but is it too late? Why is the European Union legislating shipping emissions, but letting top polluters like the navy run rampant? Civil unrest in Belarus is being used to push for a change in the way the EU Council makes decisions, so why is so little said about the protests in Bulgaria, a member state? And now that the Moria refugee detention camp on Lesvos has burned to the ground, the EU wants the credit for relocation. But why were those people stuck there in the first place?