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September 20, 2022 Putin is at war with all of Europe, Spanish PM says
This week Global Insider is on the ground at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. After decades of progress in reducing poverty and improving health outcomes, the world has started falling far behind in meeting the 17 U.N. sustainable development goals (SDGs) agreed to by all governments in 2015. And this year, Russia is the drama that colors everything that happens in the debates, donor conferences, and planning for how the U.N. meets its global goals. POLITICO's Ryan Health asked Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez about the impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had on the E.U.—beyond driving up energy prices—and how the U.N. can get back on track to meet its goals.
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10 min
May 18, 2022 Tradewinds & the worst job in the world: selling globalization in an era of nationalism
The free-wheeling globalization era is over: That makes life tough for Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the British Trade Secretary charged with selling her country’s “Global Britain” policy. Singapore’s Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong has to cope with the rise of his massive neighbor, China. Both are promoting export hubs battered from all sides as first Covid and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upend supply chains. Despite the World Trade Organization’s failure to conclude new global trade deals or speed up distribution of Covid vaccines, neither of these officials is giving up on the global trade body.
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16 min
May 11, 2022 Elevators show U.S. needs a lift to catch up with EU
The European Union has spent 60 years tearing down commercial and migration barriers between its member countries: and yet the flow of people and goods and services between California and Texas, is still much larger than between Germany and France. Rather than that being a sign of failure, this week’s guests — Matthias Matthijs and Craig Parsons — say the opposite is true. They argue the EU has removed regulatory barriers but failed to tear down cultural ones: leaving the continent with an underused single market. Americans are enthusiastic about working, buying and selling across state lines: but they do it despite pointless barriers — from local standards for elevators to different state hairdresser licensing rules. The payoff from U.S. state and federal governments doing some EU-style market reforms could be huge.
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22 min
April 27, 2022 In search of very bad people
Where on earth can you combine interests in arms trafficking, blood diamonds and expensive cars? Global Witness is one such place. The non-profit’s co-founder Patrick Alley — who’s made a career out of scrutinizing “very bad people” — shares timely lessons about what works and what doesn’t in exposing corruption, as the world puts Russian interests under the microscope.
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26 min
April 20, 2022 Are there off-ramps to the war
POLITICO’s Ryan Heath joins Ivo Daalder, former US Ambassador to NATO and now President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Carla Robbins (Council on Foreign Relations) and Elise Labott (Zivvy Media) for a panel discussion on the dangerous new phase of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, corporate Germany’s deep ties to Moscow, and NATO’s likely northern expansion
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36 min
April 13, 2022 Prosecuting war crimes is never enough
Prosecuting war crimes can take decades. What if, in the case of Ukraine, that’s because there is too much evidence to sift through, rather than not enough?
How much of it can be used to deliver justice? Who will decide who to prosecute and who to forgive? And what evidence are Russian forces already destroying?
Linda Kinstler is a writer and war crimes expert who studied how Soviets pioneered modern war crimes evidence collection in Ukraine in the 1940s — only for those lessons to tragically come full circle. Her message: prosecuting these crimes will take decades and it will not be enough.

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24 min
March 23, 2022 Breaking Bad Dependencies - Europe's struggle to ditch Russian gas
European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič tells Global Insider the EU is serious about throwing its financial weight around to limit Russian oil and gas dependency, but admits it will take months to make a dent on the problem. His message to American officials and companies: “We need more” LNG and “we are ready to work with you.” A native of Slovakia, Šefčovič warns that Putin wants nothing less than to overturn the peaceful world order, and that because of the massive sums needed to rebuild Ukraine and break dependencies on Russia (fossil fuels) and China (critical minerals), now is the time to plan those investments.
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19 min
March 16, 2022 Putting a price tag on peace
Is global peace worth $15 trillion a year? That’s the price tag Steve Killelea attached. Killelea is the philanthropist behind the Institute for Economics and Peace and author of the Global Peace Index. In this week’s episode he takes us beyond the deadly conflict in Ukraine to the regions we should worry about next, and explores ways of thinking to help us avoid the complacencies that blinded so much of the world to Russia’s intentions among its neighbors.
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19 min
March 09, 2022 "It didn’t have to unfold this way”
Biden’s Global Covid Response coordinator Gayle Smith, now back leading the ONE Campaign, opens up about what went wrong with global Covid vaccine markets and what she’d do to make a Covax 2.0 work better.
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25 min
February 23, 2022 The spread of Wide Covid
Mark Malloch Brown - President of Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest private funder of groups that advocate for democratic governance and human rights argues that Covid-19 is ultimately not a virus crisis, but a wider series of health system, economic and political crises, that will in the end have a far greater cost than even the millions of lives lost to the virus.
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21 min

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Power Play is POLITICO's new weekly transatlantic podcast hosted by renowned British journalist Anne McElvoy. It takes listeners inside the minds of those who wield power to better…