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What is going on in Russia on the eve of the presidential election? Was Alexei Navalny assassinated? And what impact does the Russian war in Ukraine has on Russia itself? Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Denis Bilunov, a PhD candidate at Charles University, a founding member of the Prague Russian Antiwar committee. In 2005-2015, he was a public person in Russian opposition, the org...

In this episode we talk about the last election in Serbia, and how Serbian liberals are preparing for a democratic future, with  Natan Albahari the International Secretary of the liberal party, Movement of Free Citizens. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament....

Can Hungary be considered a democratic country? What challenges does the potential Donald Trump's victory in the United States pose to democracy? And what is it that the Action for Democracy aims for? Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with David Koranyi, President of the Action for Democracy. Tune in for the talk! This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration wi...

Why do the recent election results in Poland, the Netherlands, and Spain matter? What do they mean for Europe? And what is to be expected of the forthcoming elections in Portugal and the European elections? We are starting the new season of the Liberal Europe Podcast with a thought-provoking conversation between our two hosts, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) and Leszek Jazdzewski (Fun...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Heather Grabbe, a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, a Visiting Professor at University College London and KU Leuven, and a former director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels. They talk about the rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis EU candidate countries, why the EU was unable to discipline...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Alva Finn, the Executive Director of the European Liberal Forum. They talk about the role of ELF, and other European political foundations have, in helping the citizen understand political problems and their solutions, and what she envisions is the work ahead as we move to 2024. This podcast is pro...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Sergei Guriev, a renown political and economic analyst, Professor of Economics and Provost of Science Po, the co-author (together with Daniel Treisman) of "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century", and the host of the podcast "Conversations with Sergei Guriev". They talk about the...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Tamar Jacoby, from the Progressive Policy Institute, former journalist and author, and now living in Ukraine where she reports on the war and the work done by the government and civil society to modernize and make Ukraine a more liberal democratic country. This podcast is produced by the European L...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Arun Chaudhary, Creative Director at the Social-Changes, a former Creative Director of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, and an official videographer of the White House under Barack Obama’s presidency. They talk about being a filmmaker to President Obama and what President Joe Biden should do ne...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Sten Laansoo, the International Officer of the Reform Party in Estonia, for the final episode of a miniseries on success stories of liberal parties in the ALDE family. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with t...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Daniela Schwarzer, an expert in European and international affairs, whose most recent book "Krisenzeit: Sicherheit, Wirtschaft, Zusammenhalt – Was Deutschland jetzt tun muss" has just been published. They talk about the Group of Twelve report, the future of EU enlargement, and the necessary reforms at the...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Carlos Guimarães Pinto, former President of the Portuguese liberal party Iniciativa Liberal, and current MP, for the second episode of a miniseries on success stories of liberal parties in the ALDE family. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Libera...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) talks about the results of the recent Polish elections, voter mobilization, the structure of the new ruling coalition, obstacles that lie ahead, and what does this all mean for the European Union. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Lib...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Bas Earlings, a former strategist and campaign manager for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) in the Netherland, for the first episode of a miniseries on success stories of liberal parties in the ALDE family. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration wi...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Paul Hilder, CEO of Datapraxis, Co-Founder of Crowdpac, 38 Degrees, and openDemocracy. He has played leadership roles at Change.org, Avaaz, and Oxfam, and was a candidate for the general secretary of the Labour party in the UK. They talk about the forthcoming Polish parliamentary and senate elections, pol...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Prof. Alan S. Kahan, Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin. He is a Senior Member emeritus of the Institut Universitaire de France. They talk about his latest book, Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism. This podcast is produced by the Europe...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Hanna Cichy, Senior Business Analyst at Polityka Insight, who analyses macroeconomic data, public finance, and labour market. They talk about the Ukrainian grain crisis, its economic and political context, the role and response of Poland and other EU countries to the issue, and the way forward for Ukraini...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Ihor Samokhodskyi, a public policy expert with a focus on digital transformation and EU integration. He currently serves as the Head of the ICT Sector at the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) and leads the Ukrainian Infrastructure Association UNITE. They talk about the chapter that Ihor wrot...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Bruno Maçães, a fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre in Brussels and a former Minister of European Affairs in Portugal who represented his country in Brussels during the eurozone crisis, the first Ukraine war, and Brexit. They talk about the Russian war in Ukraine, the geopolitics of Eurasia, the future...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) and Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) come together to talk about this year's edition of the (amazing) Freedom Games, with the title 'Turning point'. They also talk a little politics, particularly Polish elections.  This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento L...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Sarah Durieux, Co-Director of the Multitudes Foundation. She launched the mobilisation platform Change.org in France and helped millions of French people to change laws, business practices, and grow movements that changed the conversation in the country. They talk about activism, the French society, socia...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Santiago de la Presilla, former journalist and now speechwriter and political officer at the ALDE Party Secretariat. They talk about the art of political speech-writing, what is needed, how to do it, and how humor can be included. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaborat...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Maria Adele Carrai. She is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai, co-leads the research initiative ‘Mapping Global China’ and has authored the books Sovereignty in China and co-edited The China Questions 2. They talk about the chapter that Adele wrote for the ELF publicatio...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Laia Comerma, she is a Ph. D. student at the Pompeu Fabra University, Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, and policy officer at LYMEC. They talk about the policy paper that Laia wrote for ELF titled "EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans. The Effects of Chinese Investmen...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Dr Nicole Koenig, Head of Policy at the Munich Security Conference. They talk about German strategy towards the war in Ukraine, a shift in the defence policy, the future of EU enlargement and strategic autonomy, and how Germans perceive Zeitenwende. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum i...