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In the Loop May 22: Spanish elections and bored European Parliament
POLITICO’s In the loop podcast gives you a roundup of the week that has been and those events that will spark the debate in the weeks to come.
This week, POLITICO’s lobbying reporter James Panichi chats to Carrie Budoff Brown, POLITICO’s managing editor, on one of last edition’s front page stories: the European Parliament is looking for a role for itself. MEPs say that they do not have enough work to do as a consequence of the European Commission’s efforts to streamline the legislation process.
POLITICO’s Nicholas Hirst, one of the newsroom’s Spanish speaking reporters, talks about the regional and municipal elections that are coming up in Spain on May 24. Can the anti-establishment parties Podemos and Ciudadanos shake-up the traditional two-party politics in the country?
Presented by James Panichi, production by Cynthia Kroet.