{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/692f07167e5e771058ad5914?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Europe’s identity crisis: Empty values & defence delusion","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/1764688628711-3c013cbc-42d3-4a6a-aa32-623893fbe49b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at Europe's core illusions. Are Europe's 'values' anything more than a slogan when its leaders fail to defend a French ICC judge sanctioned by the Trump administration? And why is Europe fixated on rapidly increasing defence spending to 3.5% of GDP - is this target a genuine strategy to counter Russia and achieve independence, or is it a doomed exercise that will only funnel money inefficiently and increase Europe's reliance on American arms suppliers?</p><p><br></p><p>The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy – so-called ‘settled facts’ – and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don’t always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment’s model is failing.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"UnHerd"}