{"title": "The EU's opposition | Sari Essayah | Negotiator 50", "titleOriginal": "EU:n oppositio | Sari Essayah | Neuvottelija 50", "episodeNumber": "50", "guest": "Sari Essayah", "publishedAt": "2020-12-03", "duration": "19:05", "durationIso": "PT19M5S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nRgJkwZTg", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/56-neuvottelija-50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["geopolitics", "finnish_economy_policy"], "description": "Christian Democrat leader and former MEP Sari Essayah explains why the claim that 'there is no opposition in the EU' is partly true — and what actually takes its place. The episode covers the Commission's monopoly on legislative initiative, the Council as the counterweight that watches the money, the division of labour between rapporteur and shadow rapporteur, and why the Parliament has been called a dangerous institution. Essayah closes with a concrete reform proposal and an assessment of the recovery fund's passage.", "chapters": [{"t": "00:00", "title": "Is there an opposition in the EU?", "seconds": 0}, {"t": "02:30", "title": "The Commission's monopoly and the Council as counterweight", "seconds": 150}, {"t": "05:03", "title": "Groups, the EPP and political differences", "seconds": 303}, {"t": "07:35", "title": "Taxation without representation: 1 per cent against 42", "seconds": 455}, {"t": "10:08", "title": "National interest and how to vote in European elections", "seconds": 608}, {"t": "12:40", "title": "Rapporteur and shadow rapporteur", "seconds": 760}, {"t": "15:17", "title": "Fixing the democratic deficit: a right of initiative for the Council", "seconds": 917}, {"t": "17:58", "title": "The Constitutional Law Committee and Finland's 13 billion", "seconds": 1078}], "sourceTranscriptType": "macwhisper_srt", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from the MacWhisper SRT transcript, YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. Chapter timecodes are taken from the transcript; no caption files are published with this page.", "slug": "ep50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah", "guestsCanonical": ["Sari Essayah"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/sari-essayah/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep50-eun-oppositio-sari-essayah/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null}