Today I sat down with friend of the publication, Dave Keating from Gulf Stream Bluesto discuss the big stories of the past few weeks, including:

* The on-off-on again US Tariff court rulings

* The European Council blocking Spanish regional languages and giving Pedro Sanchez a political headache

* Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban's Budapest pride ban, and the pathetically weak response from the Commission

* And Ursula von der Leyen's Aachen speech on European geopolitics

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