The EU’s new power pyramid and migration escalation – POLITICO

Dwell from Strasbourg… and Paris… and Berlin… and London, it’s EU Confidential. On this week’s episode, we catch you up on a dizzying week of stories. We begin with the within dish on Thierry Breton’s high-drama departure from the European Fee, adopted by evaluation of who’s actually in cost now that Fee President Ursula von der Leyen has debuted her new crew, with POLITICO’s Marion Solletty and Eddy Wax. Host Sarah Wheaton additionally sits down with present (and certain future) local weather Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, and we debut our new sequence of mini-profiles, Berlaymont Who’s Who, with an introduction to Kaja Kallas, the EU’s subsequent overseas coverage chief.

And that’s not all: Migration is roiling home politics across the bloc. POLITICO’s Hans von der Burchard and Rosa Prince speak about how the left-leaning leaders of Germany and the U.Ok. are taking cues from the far-right on protecting migrants out.