Episode
Michel Barnier, chief EU Brexit negotiator: We need to be together in a fragile world
- Podcast
- The Interview
- Published
- Jun 25, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1478
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct98k9
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-interview-1016532/episodes/michel-barnier-chief-eu-brexit-negotiator-we-need-to-be-together-in-a-fragile-world/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-interview-1016532/michel-barnier-chief-eu-brexit-negotiator-we-need-to-be-together-in-a-fragile-world.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Katya Adler speaks to Michel Barnier who served as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, on the 10th anniversary of the highly consequential referendum. On 23 June 2016, the British public went to the polls to decide its future with the European Union. An unusually high number of people voted, and by 52% to 48%, the decision was to leave the bloc. Barnier, then a European Commissioner who had served as a minister in a number of French governments, represented the EU at negotiations to help agree the terms of the UK’s departure and future relationship. It was a long, hard process, with the UK seeing three different prime ministers from 10 Downing Street before formally leaving the Union in January 2020. Monsieur Barnier reflects on the UK’s decision and how both European and international politics have changed since. The Interview brings you conversations with people shaping our world, from all over the world. The best interviews from the BBC, including episodes with European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño, and Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv. You can listen on the BBC World Service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 0800 GMT. Or you can listen to The Interview as a podcast, out three times a week on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. Presenter: Katya Adler Producer: Ben Cooper and Kathy Long Editor: Damon Rose Get in touch with us on email [email protected] and use the hashtag #TheInterviewBBC on social media. (Image: Michel Barnier. Credit: PA.)