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Jayanthi Devi Balaguru is currently the Chairperson of the CALD Women’s Caucus and the President of the International Network of Liberal Women. In July 2019, she was also elected as the member of the Liberal International Human Rights Bureau. She is a lawyer and has held many prominent positions in her political party Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (PGRM). She is an advocate for a fair and just soc...

Hakima el Haité is a member of the executive board of Mouvement Populaire Morocco. Ms El Haité was elected as the 14th president of Liberal International at the 62nd Congress in Dakar, Senegal in 2018 and she is the second female president in LI’s history and the first from the Middle East – North Africa Region. El Haité is an internationally recognised leader in the fields of environmental sustai...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Professor Gerard Pogorel. He is the Professor emeritus of Economics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris – Telecom Paris Graduate School of Engineering, and they talk about Professor Pogorel policy paper: "A European Audio-Visual area for the age of global entertainment". This podcast is produced by th...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Wilbert Jan Derksen. Wilbert Jan is a political researcher, who works for the TeldersStichting (Telders Foundation in English). They talk about the article wrote by Wilbert Jan for the ELF publication "Beyond Flat Earth: Conspiracy Theories vs European Liberals", with the title "From UFO's to consp...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Nathan Stone, an Irishman currently working at the European Parliament for the Renew Europe grouping. They talk about Ireland: it's internal politics, the effect of Brexit and the future of the integration of the country in the EU. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collabora...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 9 on Georgia's future with George Melashvili hosted by Adi Škaljić. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Internationaal/IDI Stichting with the financial support of the European Parliament. The Euro...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 8 on Women in politics with Monika Zajkova hosted by Zerina Mandzo. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Internationaal/IDI Stichting with the financial support of the European Parliament. The Euro...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 7 on Women's leadership with Yelyzaveta Bugaienko hosted by Elvedina Omerhodzic. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Internationaal/IDI Stichting with the financial support of the European Parliam...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 6 on Armenia's future with Gor Badalyan, hosted by Faris Sehovic. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Internationaal/IDI Stichting with the financial support of the European Parliament. The Europe...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 5 on Challenges, Hopes and Dreams for liberal organisations in the Western Balkans with Sanda Krekik, hosted by Maid Džaferović hosted by Teresa Reiter. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Interna...

EU mentorship program is a political mentorship in the area of EU integration process in the Western Balkans. Episode 4 on EU-Western Balkan Relations with Teresa Reiter and Jasmina Mrso, hosted by Andrew Burgess. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum (ELF) in collaboration with Fondacija Boris Divković (BDF) and D66 Internationaal/IDI Stichting with the financial support of the E...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Jorge Gonzalez, former language teacher and now a city counseler at Timisiora in Romania. We also welcome back Carmen Descamps (we had her on Episode 31), but this time as a co-host. They talk about local governance and EU citizenship. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in colla...

Andreas I. Pottakis is the Greek Ombudsman. He leads a national equality body that acts as guardian of the people’s rights, with a special emphasis on monitoring and promoting the implementation of the principle of equal treatment, the rights of the child and the rights of vulnerable groups. He speaks about the common challenges to human rights and specifics of a country like Greece. We talk about...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Paul Frigyes, a Swedish writer and journalist to talk about Paul's book “In Ukraine, Adrift”, published by the ELF in cooperation with SILC. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Liberal Social with the financial support of the European Parliamen...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, following the Market-based solutions to climate change campaign on ELF, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Andrzej Ancygier, Senior Energy and Climate Policy Analyst at Climate Analytics, focusing mainly on the European energy policy and transformation of the transport sector. They talk about climate and energy policies, COP26 and t...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, to end Cybersecurity Month, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Nina Olesen, Senior Policy Manager at European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) and Manager & Supervisor at the Women4Cyber Foundation. They talk about the work done by ECSO and the initiatives Women4Cyber and Youth4Cyber. This podcast is produced by the European Liber...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, still on Cybersecurity Month, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Iva Tasheva, Co-Founder and Cybersecurity Lead, Cybersecurity and Energy SCS (CYEN). They talk about enterprise and healthcare providers cybersecurity, and some of the work done at the EU level to fight agains this threats.  This podcast is produced by the Europea...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Laura de Vries, researcher at the Mr. Hans van Mierlo Foundation that focuses on technological developments in relation to progressive liberal values. They talk about the publication "Algorithms and Local Government: Opportunity for everyone?" that Laura authored.   This podcast is produced by the...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...

Over the course of 2019, the journalist and author Paul Frigyes went adrift across Ukraine, Europe’s largest, but often least-known, country. The result is “In Ukraine, Adrift” a report from a nation in search of an identity and a place in Europe. First published in Swedish and in Ukrainian in 2020, the book is now presented to an English-speaking audience, including in a form of an audiobook. Pro...