Eurovision Presidential Debate 2019

Eurovision Presidential Debate 2019

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

The European Broadcasting Union is producing the Eurovision EU Election Debate, live from the European Parliament in Brussels on 15 May 2019 at 21:00 CET. This is the second edition of the Eurovision Debate. This 90-minute production is offered free-of-charge.

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Event Number: 44527

Date: 14/05 - 15/06/2019

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The European Broadcasting Union is producing the Eurovision Presidential Debate, live from the European Parliament in Brussels on 15 May 2019 at 21:00 CET. This is the second edition of the Eurovision Debate. 

This 90-minute production is offered free-of-charge.

The discussion will be mainly in English but simultaneous interpretation for all 24 official EU languages will be available: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.

The following six lead candidates running to be President of the European Commission ("Spitzenkandidaten") will discuss during the EU Elections debate:

  • Nico CUÉ, European Left (EL)
  • Ska KELLER, European Green Party (EGP)
  • Jan ZAHRADIL, Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE)
  • Margrethe VESTAGER, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
  • Manfred WEBER, European People’s Party (EPP)
  • Frans TIMMERMANS, Party of European Socialists (PES)

The live debate will be moderated by TV anchors Markus Preiss (ARD WDR), Emilie Tran-Nguyen (France Télévisions) and Annastiina Heikkilä (Yle).

 

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