Episode 99: Frans Timmermans and Margrethe Vestager, rivals for European Commission president

<p>We have a double-header this week: interviews with both Frans Timmermans (Socialist) and Margrethe Vestager (Liberal), two rivals to become European Commission president.</p> <p>Ryan Heath and Nazan Gökdemir jointly interviewed the candidates as part of a television series for ARTE, the franco-german television network.</p> <p>In the podcast panel Alva Finn and Lina Aburous debate whether it was right to offer Jean-Claude Juncker a &quot;European of the Year&quot; award at the European Business Summit this week, and a new documentary about the Brexit negotiations, based on two years of insider footage following around the European Parliament Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt</p>