By Euronews
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EU editor Maria Tadeo will be one of the faces of Europe Today from Monday as Euronews launches its new flagship morning programme, bringing you up to speed on the major news events of the day.
The long-time Brussels-based correspondent comes with more than a decade of EU reporting experience, including coverage of NATO summits, G7 meetings, and major elections across the continent.
As part of Europe Today, Tadeo will bring you the day’s key events plus crucial analysis of all the stories shaping the EU and beyond.
“The show is about zeitgeist,” she explained. “This is my obsession. What is the story, what matters and how do the dots connect?”
Europe Today will focus on three main stories each morning in what Tadeo calls a “compact, no-nonsense, to the point format” combining news, analysis and interviews with newsmakers.
She also promises live news, hard talk and key interviews with European leaders and policymakers.
“I’m not the type of reporter who delegates bookings,” Tadeo said. “I book myself. I message, text, email all day.”
“I like the hustle that comes with it, and news is about people. A gesture, a human moment, that’s the power of television.”
The show will bring together the continent’s key decision makers and figures “shaping the European zeitgeist” for six-minute interviews featuring “fast, to the point, punchy questions, no bluff,” Tadeo explained.
The launch comes as the EU navigates what Tadeo describes as an existential moment. “I deeply believe this is the moment when Europe either figures out how to stay relevant or becomes a vassal. A very beautiful, chic vassal, but not a player.”
“The EU has had a very rough five years,” she explained. “The old playbook no longer works and they are scrambling to put a new one in place.”
‘A complete view of what’s happening in Brussels’
Tadeo will combine presenting duties with her role as head of EU news for Euronews, managing the EU reporters and EU correspondents across the network’s European bureaus.
Tadeo sees her dual role at Euronews as a plus to her better understanding of the political landscape of the EU capital.
“I love it, because it gives me a complete view of what’s happening in Brussels,” she said.
“In the same day, you can have a meeting on trade, all finance ministers of the eurozone in town, three briefings, an interview, hopefully something exclusive, and a great political story coming from the Parliament.”
Tadeo graduated with first-class honours in journalism from City University London and holds a master’s in financial journalism.
She speaks four languages and regularly moderates policy events at the International Monetary Fund, the Munich Security Conference, and the Brussels Economic Forum.
Europe Today will air weekday mornings with co-anchor Meabh McMahon as part of Euronews’ expanded programming strategy.
Euronews reaches 400 million households across 17 languages with bureaus in all major European capitals.
