Former Vice-President of the European Commission Věra Jourová says in the podcast that she considers it a failure that she did not convince President Ursula von der Leyen of the need to retain text messages.

Robert Fico was not the one who came up with the fight against the ban on combustion engines. It was more about looking for a pretext so he could claim he had achieved some kind of success, says MEP Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová (PS, Renew Europe) in the podcast.

The current security environment forces countries to reconsider their neutral policies. Sweden and Finland abandoned theirs just a few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, realizing that it could no longer sufficiently guarantee their national security. Even Switzerland, which is a member of neither the EU nor NATO, is now strengthening its partnership with both blocs, says the highest-ranking Slovak in NATO, Barbora Marônková.

Trump's tariffs are harming American companies and consumers, which could paradoxically be an advantage for the European Union. While the EU has strict environmental regulations and higher energy prices, no one here is running around with a chainsaw, and there is no threat of everything being destroyed, says Andrej Lasz from the Association of Industrial Unions.