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Recording of the 166th episode of Europe Calling from 18 October 2023.

Our guests were:

The five MEPs who were instrumental in negotiating the proposals:

- Gaby Bischoff, S&D (SPD, Germany).
- Daniel Freund, Greens/EFA (Bündnis90/Die Grünen, Germany)
- Helmut Scholz, GUE/NGL (The Left, Germany)
- Sven Simon, EPP (CDU, Germany)
- Guy Verhofstadt, Renew (OpenVLD, Belgium)

Voices from academia, civil society and politics weighing in for us:

- Valentina Balzani, Citizen Ambassador of the “Conference on the Future of Europe” from Italy

- Clara Föller, President of the Young European Federalists Germany

- Anton Hofreiter, Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag