The Coronavirus pandemic has caused greater integration within the European Union. It has also sparked up debates around the EU’s strategic autonomy, fiscal integration, U.S dependency...

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has great ambitions for Europe and he might see his European agenda accelerated due to these unprecedented changes.

In this episode I sit down to talk about Macron’s plans for Europe with Jorge Gónzalez-Gallarza, who is a graduate in Economics from UCL and has worked in policy think tanks in Washington DC.

Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the French president's plans for Europe, the complexities that arise and the effect the pandemic has had on them.