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Pierre Vimont

Pierre Vimont

Former Executive Secretary General of the European External Action Service

Sep 22, 2026

23:06
Pierre, did I say silly things?
23:12
First of all, thank you for inviting me and for you, Claude France, to accept to have this conversation.
23:23
I take it as a conversation which is a bit surprising for two French speakers to speak in English, as you said.
23:31
I hope I will not be blamed when I return back to Paris and put in jail.
23:38
But it's Euroscepticism, and I thank Thomas, first of all, for an excellent report and for putting that question, because I wasn't thinking all that much about it.
23:49
But at the end of the day, what is Euroscepticism today? You very rightly made a distinction between skepticism inside the EU and skepticism outside.
24:04
Maybe the Euroskepticism outside of the EU, and I guess you were thinking about the MAGA movement for instance, is much more hostility than anything else and I agree with you.

11 MINS LATER

35:44
I think we should also distinguish short-term position, Russia at war, and if, when we have an end to this war, how the position vis-à-vis Russia would evolve and would we keep a kind of consensus within Europe?

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