Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

Opening the lid on the fierce arguments and clashes of personalities between Europe’s leaders, as they struggled with crises which could have torn the union apart. The latest political box-set from Brook Lapping and acclaimed series producer Norma Percy. In the unique Brook Lapping style, these stories are told by those who were in the room when the key decisions were taken. For the first time, Europe’s Presidents and Prime Ministers and their closest advisers take us back behind closed doors, where they battled night after night to keep the European Union together. The series shows leaders such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Council President Donald Tusk not just as politicians, but passionate people trying to defend their project and their countries - with all the contradictions that involved. - How David Cameron promised a referendum, and his attempts to get a new deal on immigration from Europe in order to win it. - How the Greek financial crisis threatened to spread and destroy not just the Euro, but the world economy. And how the medicine prescribed by the EU increased populism - of both right and left. - How the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the summer of 2015 put the European project in peril, as the member states disagreed over the solution.

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