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Episode 30: Estonian president Kersti Kaljulaid — Davos preview — MEP of the Week

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This week's show features an interview with Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid, the first head of state to appear on the podcast.Kaljulaid explains why Estonia wants to pay more to the EU, reveals a promise Jean-Claude Juncker made to her about the post-Brexit EU budget and talks about how Estonia is struggling with Russia's turn to militarism.POLITICO Managing Editor Florian Eder joins us to preview the World Economic Forum in Davos January 22-26.Sign up to POLITICO's daily Davos Playbook coming out next week. And listen out for our daily pop-up Davos Confidential podcasts, which will be on the same feed as EU Confidential.With our podcast panel, we launch a new feature: MEP of the Week. We draw MEP names out of a box and see whether the panel knows who they are or what they've achieved.Some more highlights from our interview with Kaljulaid...Estonia ready to pay more to EU budget: "I'm hoping for a lot of change because we have lots of common, supranational goals which we need to develop," Kalju