Agriculture & Food editor @POLITICOEurope. Brussels Playbook Week Ender podcast host Frmr: WH @POLITICO; politics @NYTimes. swheaton at politico . eu
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Jun 12
🎙️ Across Europe, political instability and fragmentation are becoming the norm.
How are governments tackling these tensions?
On today's #BrusselsPlaybookPod, host @swheaton, @cleacaulcutt, @nstamouli @MorozaR hone in on three countries.
🎧 Listen: pod.link/1244862657/episode/…
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
“Risky dependencies”
“Single dominant supplier”
“One third country”
The 🇪🇺 didn’t name U.S. But it meant U.S.
#BrusselsPlaybookPod Week Ender: Europe’s push to escape 🇺🇸 Big Tech with @swheaton, @MarietjeSchaake & @laurenscerulus
@POLITICOEurope
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May 22
Standing ovation
May 21
In an appearance before a press-rights group in New York this evening, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger had some pointed words for his peers atop U.S. media organizations.
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
May 15
🎙️ The first edition of Brussels Playbook Week Ender is here!
In it, host @swheaton explains the new-look Friday episode, before @annemcelvoy, @cafreeland and @AmbJohnBolton explore how Europe is grappling with multiple crises: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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May 8
I also catch up with the original EU Confidential host, @politicoryan, to look back at how the show has evolved over the years (remember EU WTF?) — especially as we start with a new name next week: Brussels Playbook Week Ender.
🎙️ On this week’s episode of EU Confidential, @swheaton sits down with @TheresaJKuhn to discuss a modern kind of European identity.
Who gets included in that idea of Europe — and who increasingly doesn’t?
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🎙️ On this week’s episode of EU Confidential, @swheaton sits down with @TheresaJKuhn to discuss a modern kind of European identity.
Who gets included in that idea of Europe — and who increasingly doesn’t?
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Scoop: NOTUS is going to rebrand as "The Star" and relaunch in the first week of June. It's expanding into metro and sports news in the wake of The Washington Post's layoffs earlier this year
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Apr 17
🎙️ On this week’s EU Confidential, we dive deeper into why Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s campaign failed — and what Europe’s far right can learn from his defeat.
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@EliStokols
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Apr 7
Genuinely fascinating article marked by deep curiosity, by open-mindedness without credulity. Very much worth your time to read ahead of the Hungarian election.
Congratulations to @alex_usyd for a great piece.
Mar 31
I spent two months in Hungary, based at a right-wing think tank, interviewing regime insiders and critics to understand a question liberals too often dodge: what if regimes like Orbán’s are driven by a moral project?
My new piece for @NoemaMag:
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Mar 31
A frisson goes through journalists everywhere when one of our number is kidnapped and held hostage. Hoping @shellykittleson is soon back to reporting, as she has for years in difficult places. nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world…
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Hungary has now crossed another line.
On 26 March 2026, the Hungarian government publicly said it had filed espionage charges against investigative journalist @panyiszabolcs who works with @direkt36 and @VSquare_Project . Criminalising journalism is the language of intimidation.
When reporting on state power, Russian influence, and national security can be reframed as “spying,” the chilling effect goes far beyond one reporter.
Solidarity with Szabolcs Panyi, Direkt36 and VSquare.
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Mar 27
The far right in Europe took some minor hits this week.
But those election results also tell a more existential story: the slow-motion collapse of the bloc’s center left.
🎙️ @swheaton unpacks what’s ailing left-leaning parties on EU Confidential 👇
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
The Hungarian government is filing charges against investigative journalist @panyiszabolcs for espionage, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás says.
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Mar 20
🎙️ EU leaders left yesterday's European Council summit with little to brag about, but plenty of frustration at Viktor Orbán.
On this week's EU Confidential, @swheaton, @zoyashef, @NicholasVinocur @ZiaWeise bring you an analysis of how it went down 👇
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Mar 19
Apparently Kaja Kallas has never dated in Brussels.
War is like a love affair, says EU’s Kallas. It’s hard to get out of. politico.eu/article/kaja-kal…
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🎙️ How is the ongoing crisis in the Middle East going to impact Europe?
On today's episode of EU Confidential, @swheaton speaks to foreign affairs experts @markhleonard and @RymMomtaz to get their takes.
Listen now 👇
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Are Trump’s envoys defending U.S. interests - or performing for an audience of one?
Tune in to #EUConfidential
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Feb 21
An air raid siren sounded as we were wrapping up our interview with the EU’s ambassador to Ukraine.
Katarína Mathernová’s calm reaction was a chilling reminder of what people in Kyiv have come to normalize.
🔗 Listen to the interview on EU Confidential: pod.link/1244862657/episode/…
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We were finishing our #EuConfidential interview with the EU’s ambassador in Kyiv when the air raid sirens went off. She barely reacted.
@kmathernova on bombardments, freezing winters, resilience — and 🇺🇦 EU future. Tune in!
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Sarah Wheaton retweeted
Feb 13
On this episode of EU Confidential, host @swheaton digs into what’s really behind the latest push to revive Europe’s economy.
Are calls for deregulation a genuine course correction — or another round of diagnosis without delivery?
🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/be/podcas…
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