European Liberal Forum

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Geneviève Pons, the Director General of Europe Jacques Delors (Brussels) since 2017, and in charge of environmental and climate matters in Mr. Jacques Delors' Cabinet when President of the European Commission. They talk about the future of mobility in Europe, from regional to urban areas, and the i...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes bak Olga Labendowicz from Fundacja Liberté. They talk about this year's edition of the Freedom Games, that will take place in Lodz from the 10 to 12 September with the title "New Social Contract" This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Liberal Soci...

For the second episode of the thematic mini-series "The future of political debate online", on the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Mathias Sundin, co-founder and executive chairman of the Warp Institute Foundation, and Daniel Kaddik, the Executive Director of ELF. They talk about how to have a more positive, optimistic, and fruitful political deba...

For the second episode of the thematic mini-series "The future of political debate online", on the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell, Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Member of the Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. They talk about what is dig...

For the first episode of the thematic mini-series "The future of political debate online", on the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Miroslava Sawiris, Research Fellow for Democracy & Resilience at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute. They talk about the importance of regulating political advertising on digital platforms.  This podcast is produced by the Eu...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes MEP Rainer Wieland, Vice-President and Member of the European Parliament and the EPP Group, and Daniel Kaddik, the Executive Director of ELF. They talk about Regulation 1141/2014, the legal framing regarding funds for European political parties and foundations, and what a reviewed Regulation can br...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Radu Magdin, ELF Assocaite Research Fellow and a Romanian Analyst and Think Tanker. They talk about Radu's policy paper "Conference on the Future of Europe: Towards a New Social Contract and a Europe that Works for Everyone.  This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration w...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Barbara Wieliczko & Gian Marco Bovenzi. Barbara authored an article for the publication from ELF and the Luigi Einaudi Foundation called "Next Generation EU: A Southern-Northern Dialogue" where Gian Marco was the editor. They talk about upskilling and reskilling the labour force. This podcast is pr...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Martin Dimitrov, journalist, political scientist, and author of the article "The New Normal" for the ELF publication US/THEM Hate Speech at the Service of Politics. They talk about the normalisation of hate speech by politicians, and how to fight it. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Simon Granroth, social psychologist and science communicator, and author in the publication "Conspiracy Theories vs European Liberals" from ELF. They talk about the roots of political division, populism and enmity, and to fight them. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collabo...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Martyna Bildziukiewicz, the Head of East Stratcom Task Force, part of the EU's European External Action Service (EEAS). They talk about the action of the Task Force in fighting desinformation and conspiracy theories in the European Union. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in co...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Tomi Huhtanen, the Executive Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, and welcomes back Daniel Kaddik, the Executive Director of ELF. They talk about the public consultation to amend Regulation regarding the status and funding of European political parties and foundations, and...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Uruemu Adejinmi, Councillor for Longford County Council in Ireland and author of the article "It Was Done to Us, so We Can Do it Back", for the ELF publication US/THEM Hate Speech at the Service of Politics. They talk about how to fight hate speech with positivity...lots of positivity! This podcast...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Liesje Schreinemacher, MEP for Renew Europe that serves as the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the United States. They talk about the state of the relationship between the EU and the US, and what is the way to make this alliance even stronger. This podcast is produced by the Eur...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Moritz Körner, MEP for Renew Europe and he 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 Rule of Law conditionality requirements, and how it is to be one of the younger MEP "...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Daniela Melo, lecturer of social sciences at Boston University. They talk about populism, both in the European Union and United States, and what can we learn from what happened in the US Capitol so that we don't see something similar in Europe. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Pascal Jocobs from AIM Europe, the Individual Members of the ALDE Party. They talk about the organisation, what it does, and how to join it. 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, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) talks to Robert Bjarnason from Citizens Foundation in Iceland, and Imants Breidaks from the Platform MyVoice in Latvia. They talk about citizen initiative and how to use, and create, digital tools for that need. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Liber...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) talks to Alberto Alemanno, Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris, and Founder of the non-profit civic start-up "The Good Lobby". They talk about EU citizenship and the work done by The Good Lobby. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Liberal Social with the f...

Fear Of The Future (Full Short Version) by European Liberal Forum

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Thomas Clausen, Policy Advisor for Education and Research, Liberal Institute, at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. They talk about the future of education, analysing two publication that Thomas was involved in, Best Education by 2030, and Trend Guide: Schools of the future. This podcast is pro...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) talks with Rikard Forslid, Professor in the Department of Economics at Stockholm University. They talk about the ELF publication Border Carbon Adjustments and Climate Clubs – In the EU context, authored by Rikard. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the Movimento Lib...

Barbara Nolan is DG for Justice and Consumers Head of Fundamental Rights Policy. She talks about Covid-19 and areas of fundamental rights that took the hardest hit, explains the focuses of a new Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU and identifies main challenges of protecting fundamental rights, which, she agrees, can not be taken for granted.

Peter Svetina is Slovenia’s human rights ombudsman. Sharing with us the understanding and respect for human rights as one of the EU's fundamental building blocks, he also explains in more detail the situation of senior citizens in Slovenia during the Covid-19 crisis, what complaints they have encountered and how they have been dealt with. We are also talking about artificial intelligence and its i...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) talks with Jan Penfrat, the Senior Policy Advisor at the European Digital Rights Network (EDRi). They talk about the proposed EU Digital Services Act and its importance to the future of political debate on digital platforms.  This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with the M...