European Liberal Forum

In this episode, we talk about the current developments in Ukraine and EU integration. Our speakers are Maria Alesina, PhD, Policy and Research Officer at the European Liberal Forum and George Melashvili, founder of the Europe-Georgia Institute. The discussion is moderated by Emil Kirjas, Former Secretary-General of Liberal International as well as a Nominal Vice President. This podcast is produce...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Piotr Buras, the head of ECFR’s Warsaw office and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. They talk about the EU funds and the issues related to the rule of law in Poland, the prospects for implementing the necessary reforms that would bring the judicial independence back on t...

For this first episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast 2023 (series Movimento Liberal Social), Ricardo Silvestre welcomes back Moritz Körner, MEP for Renew Europe that served as the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Member States’ access to the Budget of the European Union depending of the respect for the Rule of Law. They talk about conditionality mechanisms and what can be done to have a Europe...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) talks about Polish upcoming parliamentary elections, EU funds and the rule of law, and how to deal with populists. 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. Neither the European...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Dr Antonios Nestoras, Interim Executive Director of ELF, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) and Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social), have a conversation about the year 2022, and what can we expect from 2023, in ELF and the podcast.   This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and F...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Denys Karlovskyi, a News Editor at Ukrayinska Pravda, an online media organisation in Ukraine and an Oxford-Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, the University of Oxford. They talk about experiencing the first days of the Russian invasion in Ukraine as a journalist, changing s...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Nicola Beer, MEP at Renew Europe with the Freie Demokratische Partei from Germany, Vice-president of the European Parliament, but more important for this conversation, one of the most dedicated promoters of the Conference on the Future of Europe, and of the participation of liberals in it. They go...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Francesco Grillo, the founder think tank Vision, Ph. D. in Political Economy, and co-author of the ELF policy paper (#11) "Flexible Transnational Electoral Constituencies", with Raffaella Nanetti. They talk about the future of elections at the European Union, and how to "Europeanise" these election...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Geetika Mantri, an Indian journalist and a Commonwealth Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, the University of Oxford. They talk about women's rights in India, sexual violence, the caste system, the origins of power of Indian nationalism and Nerendra Modi, and the increasing intergenerational te...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Cecilia Gebara Zahran and Vitor Tomaz of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. They talk about the 2022 Brazilian elections, their political and ecological context and importance, and implications for Europe and the world. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Vlad Gheorghe, MEP in the Renew Europe from Romania with Uniunea Salvați România, he is a member of the Budget, Petitions Committees and the Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association. He is also working tirelessly to help Ukraine. They talk about what the EU can do more for the reco...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Dr. Thomas Bagger, Germany’s Ambassador to the Republic of Poland. They talk about the EU Energy crisis, German eastern policy, EU response to the war in Ukraine, and Polish-German relations. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Adrián Vázquez Lázara, MEP in the Renew Europe from Spain with Ciudadanos, speaker of the group in the European Parliament of Ciudadanos Europa and President of the Commitment on Legal Affairs at the European Parliament. They talk about the status of the European Union enlargement and the Balkans....

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. They talk about contemporary liberalism and discuss what can each and every one of us do to p...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Svenja Hahn. She is an MEP for the Freie Demokratische Partei, from Germany, former President of LYMEC, former Vice-President of the European Liberal Forum, and currently Vice-President of the ALDE Party. They talk about the mechanics of trade agreements in the European Union and how can human valu...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Brendan Simms, Director of the Centre for Geopolitics and Professor of the History of European International Relations of the University of Cambridge. They talk about a wider context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the lessons learnt from Hitler’s victories and miscalculations of WW2, the role of the...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Jane Morrice, a former Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former Head of the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland. They are joined by Suzana Carp, that was already on the podcast, and will co-host the episode. Suzana has researched and written on the topic of the peace an...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Fabrizio Tassinari, Executive Director and Berggruen Fellow at the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance, and the author of "The Pursuit of Governance: Nordic Dispatches on a New Middle Way". They talk about the forthcoming general election in Italy, the political context, the possible outcome, and its...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Barry Andrews, Member of the European Parliament from Renew Europe with Fianna Fáil Party from Ireland. They talk about the negotiations with the United Kingdom on the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, (possible) reunification of the island, and the political future of Ireland This podcast...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Stefan Lehne, Senior fellow at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states. They talk about EU foreign policy, the European response to the Russian...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Gerard Pogorel, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris – Telecom Paris Graduate School of Engineering, and Augusto Preta, economist, content and digital media strategist. They talk about digital content and European culture. This podcast is produced by the European Li...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Luuk van Middelaar, a political theorist and historian, a Professor of EU law at Leiden University, a political commentator for NRC Handelsblad, and the author of the prizewinning book "The Passage to Europe". They talk about European resilience and solidarity, how the EU has responded to the COVID-19 cri...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Dr. Juan E. Castañeda and Dr. Pedro Schwartz Girón to talk about the article "A More Political Euro? The ‘Displacement Effect’ of the Eurozone in Times of Crisis", part of the Future Europe Journal Issue 2: Inflation Rising. Dr Castañeda is part of the Institute of International Monetary Research a...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and a Professor of the University of Warsaw, Centre for Europe. He is a member of several supervisory or program boards, including the International Association of Constitutional Law, ICON-S, and the Institute of P...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Maartje Schulz, political scientist and is researcher at the TeldersStichting, the classical liberal think tank associated with the Dutch party VVD. They talk about the book A Free Market for All where they go into some of the main thesis on the book. This podcast is produced by the European Libera...