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In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’, we talk about espionage in Europe.
Across Europe, more and more politicians have been accused of having ties with foreign governments in the past month. At the centre of the latest scandal is the German far-right AfD party and its leader, Maximilian Krah, around whom the Afd’s European political campaign revolves.
Kjeld Neubert, Euractiv’s Berlin correspondent, joined us in the studio to discuss the latest developments.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’, we talk about Fratelli d'Italia, whose most influential members are gathering at a two-day conference in central Italy that begins tomorrow.
It’s there that we will learn whether Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will lead her party in the European elections. Many think it can’t be anyone else but her, but there is another option, her right hand in the party: her sister, Arianna Meloni.
To delve into her background and influence in more detail, we sat down with Euractiv’s reporter in Rome Alessia Peretti.

With slightly more than a month to go till the European parliamentary elections, surveyors from our polling partner Europe Elects, are focusing on the performance of the political groups, the seats they may get in the parliament, and what are the main concerns of EU citizens.
With anticipation of a higher voter turnout than in previous years, according to the last Eurobarometer before the elections,  EU citizens appear more aware and engaged than ever with EU affairs.
To get a better understanding of the new data from our polling partner, Europe Elects, with us is Max Griera, Euractiv’s network journalist.

If you are a citizen from one of the 27 countries that are members of the European Union, you have less than seven weeks before you are called to the polls for the European Parliament election, the first after Brexit. Today, we are getting into the practicalities of the voting process, and looking at the impact this vote will have on the future of the EU. What are the key dates we need to keep in mind and what can we expect from this election? 
In our studio, we invited Aurélie Pugnet, politics hub editor at Euractiv, to discuss this matter.

In this episode of our daily podcast ‘Today in the EU’ we’re all about the last European Parliament plenary session in Strasburg.
The Members of the European Parliament are convening for a last session from 22 April until 25 April, to focus on some remaining files before dissolving this parliamentary mandate. All this in the shadow of French President Emmanuel Macron’s upcoming speech, about crucial issues affecting the EU.
To look ahead to this last plenary we spoke with Euractiv's Paris-based reporter Theo Burgery Gonse, who is in Strasbourg.

In today's episode of Today in the EU, we decrypt the core messages of the 147-page long report by former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta that all EU institutions have been waiting for. Letta's analysis of the EU's single market was commissioned by the European Council a year ago. 
The document offers some answers to the unprecedented challenges facing the European Union: the energy crisis prompted by the war in Ukraine, the aftermath of an historic surge in prices, and increased competition from China and the United States.
To find out what impact Letta’s report could have on the EU's economic future, we analysed its overarching gist with Anna Brunetti, Euractiv’s economy editor.