My question to Angela Merkel
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Angela Merkel, Europe’s most influential personality in the 21st century is getting ready to give up power. Emilia, Berlin correspondent for a European media company, has been selected to take part in a panel of journalists and will ask Merkel one question. But which question? She proceeds with an investigation and interviews to find THE exact right question.
My question to Angela Merkel is a documentary podcast. The journalistic investigation relies on exhaustive research and exclusive testimonies coming from several European personalities (Alexis Tsipras, François Hollande, Jean Claude Juncker, etc). A smaller fictional picture is created to present a greater factual history.
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Episodes
Bonus Episode: Interview with Alexis Tsipras
December 02, 2021 15:03 - 19 minutes - 43.8 MBAlexis Tsipras: "Angela Merkel did not succeed in making Europe less German but she tried to make Germany more European." In this bonus episode of my question to Angela Merkel, Alexis Tsipras, who was the Greek Prime Minister during one of the most important crises for his country and the EU, tells of his fascinating relationship with Angela Merkel, an adversary, just as much as an attentive counterpart. While he deplores her firmness with regard to budgetary austerity, he also praises her ...
Bonus episode by Crisis Group : German Foreign Policy After Merkel
November 25, 2021 10:35 - 28 minutes - 65.6 MBThis episode bonus of "my question to Angela Merkel" is part of the series War & Peace, by the International Crisis Group, EuroPod's partner. After sixteen years at Europe’s helm, Angela Merkel is stepping down from power. The federal election in September also marked an end to the long-term hold her political party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), had had over German politics. Merkel’s likely successor, Olaf Scholz, is now looking to forge a “traffic light coalition” between his Soc...
Bonus Episode - Interview with Jean-Claude Juncker
November 18, 2021 14:38 - 12 minutes - 29.4 MBThey are both monsters of European political longevity. Jean-Claude Juncker, former President of the European Commission, answered EuroPod’s questions on Angela Merkel's career and legacy. You have already heard some extracts of what he said on “My question to Angela Merkel” and now you can enjoy the full interview by Quentin Ariès, journalist at Cafébabel and EuroPod partner for this podcast series. In this podcast, Juncker recalls: the Greek sovereign debt crisis the so-called “migratio...
Episode 10 - Angie and us
November 12, 2021 15:42 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MBThe journey is about to end. Emilia has already walked us through the most pivotal moments of Angela Merkel’s life and political career, including her reaction to the financial crash, the Greek sovereign debt crisis and the rise in migration flows in Europe. However, before deciding on which question to ask Merkel, she also wants to reflect on the way her departure will change politics both in Germany and in the EU. Emilia will tell us about Merkel’s 180° U-turn on the question of European d...
Episode 9 - This is a dog’s world
November 04, 2021 16:10 - 26 minutes - 61.3 MBBy now we know all about Angela Merkel’s life and political career up until her famous “Wir schaffen das!”. Now Emilia will tell us all about Merkel switching gears on her Atlanticist side with the arrival of Donald Trump while at the same time being reluctant in taking on the role of leader of the free world after the departure of Obama. We will discover why she was against a referendum on Brexit and learn about her determination to show a firm hand throughout the negotiations which unfolde...
Episode 8 - Angie says « Wir schaffen das » and the extremes go mad
October 28, 2021 09:54 - 20 minutes - 46.1 MBEmilia has already delved into every detail of Merkel’s life and political career up until her reaction to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. As we will discover in this episode, before she could catch her breath, Merkel was faced with yet another challenge, one that would make her enter history: a consistent surge in migratory flows. Emilia will tell us about Merkel being in favour of a common European asylum system and about her making sure that no more walls prevented freedom of movement. W...
Episode 7 - What’s with the Austerity Angie?
October 21, 2021 12:52 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBBy now we know all about Merkel’s life and political career up until how she reacted to the financial crash of 2008. In this episode, we will discover about the time the EU was on the verge of a new crisis because of Greece’s instability. Emilia will tell us about Merkel holding back even though European leaders only had 72 hours to prevent it, about her stating that “Germany can’t do well if Europe doesn’t”, about her key alliance with Sarkozy in Brussels against the likes of Papandreou and...
Episode 6 - Financial Crash and Angie: the Reluctant European
October 14, 2021 10:47 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MBEmilia already told us all about Merkel’s youth and retraced every step of her political career up until the role she played in closing the deal on the Lisbon Treaty. But as we will discover in this episode, that was only one of the many challenges Merkel had to face ever since becoming Chancellor. Emilia will tell us about Merkel turning to books herself in the face of the financial crisis, about her disagreements with Sarkozy on what to do about the most fragile EU economies, and about her...
Episode 5 - Lisbon Treaty, Angie’s Treaty?
October 06, 2021 14:32 - 17 minutes - 39.7 MBEmilia already told us all about Merkel’s youth and the beginning of her political career, including her years as Minister and leader of the opposition. Now, it is time to learn about her debut as Chancellor, which made her predecessor Schröder lose its temper on national TV. But we will also discover how she responded to the failure of the European constitution treaty, how she managed to establish a working relationship with Sarkozy, and to close the deal on the Lisbon Treaty. The guest...
Episode 4 - Angela Merkel, the Snow White Killer
September 29, 2021 08:40 - 20 minutes - 46.2 MBWith Angela Merkel’s youth and the beginning of her political career already covered, Emilia will move on to tell us about Helmut Kohl opening many doors for Merkel both within the government and within the party. Then, after having delved into the so-called “CDU donations scandal”, Emilia will tell us how Merkel managed to save the whole party from sinking and how she showed no mercy to her political competitors. We’ll find out how she took a European stance for the first time before even b...
Episode 3 - Minister Angie
September 22, 2021 15:04 - 23 minutes - 53 MBIn the previous episodes Emilia has told us all about Angela Merkel’s youth. It is now time to discover her complex relationship with feminism and to learn about her first years as a woman Minister operating in a man’s world. We find out how she made her voice heard on the legislation on abortion and how she turned a ski accident into an occasion to fill the gaps in her knowledge on women’s rights in Western Germany. The guests featured in this episode are: ● Michèle Alliot Marie, f...
Episode 2 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Angie at the sauna
September 16, 2021 13:13 - 16 minutes - 38.8 MBAfter having delved into her origins in the previous episode, Emilia moves on to investigate what Angela was up to in her late 20s and her early 30s. We find out how Miss Angela Kasner became Mrs Angela Merkel and how she cleverly managed to avoid working for the Stasi. We discover where she was when the Berlin Wall was being torn down and what she did after such an event so pivotal in Germany’s history. The guests featured in this episode are: Joyce Mushaben, political scientist, former P...
Episode 1 - Baby Merkel: Angie Kasner
September 14, 2021 13:27 - 16 minutes - 37.7 MBIn this episode, Emilia starts her quest for the perfect question to ask Angela Merkel by looking into her origins. We find out about her life as the daughter of a protestant pastor on an evangelical mission in East Germany. We learn all about her brilliant track record as a student, about her nerd side, about the time she defied the DDR authorities by reading a censored poem. We understand together how she could be seen both as a Western girl in East Germany and as “the Easterner” from the ...
Episode 0: Angie and me
September 01, 2021 11:11 - 4 minutes - 9.25 MBFollow Emilia in Angela Merkel's footsteps. Discover the series tone and agenda as well as famous guests who will give exclusive insights about the most powerful European woman of this early 21st Century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.