European Liberal Forum

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...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Vesna Pusic, a social scientist, academic, political analyst, and former Minister of Foreign & European Affairs for Croatia, and Emil Kirjas, founder of Kirjas Global, Vice President of Liberal International, and former State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia. They continue the conversation...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back the Deputy Executive Director, and the responsible for the Policy and Research Unit at the ELF Secretariat. They talk about the ELF policy paper "Staged Integration for Future EU Enlargement", and what can be done to renew the EU Enlargement Project. This podcast is produced by the European Li...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Stefan Aćimović, the Director of European Programs of Students For Liberty, and part of the organisation that manages, and presents, the event LibertyCon. They go into what is the event, how it is put in place, what are the objectives, and what future projects. This podcast is produced by the Europ...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Professor Yael (Yuli) Tamir, the President of Beit Berl College and an adjunct professor at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, who served as Israel’s Minister of Immigration (1999-2001) and as Minister of Education (2006-2009), as well as the deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Miłosz Hodun, the President of the Projekt: Polska Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the European Liberal Forum, and Felicita Medved, that served as a member and president of the Board of Directors and now is the president of the Novum Institute. They talk about the chapter that Mr...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Andrzej Bobiński, the Managing Director of Polityka Insight. They talk about the biggest street protest in the history of Poland, what factors shape the parliamentary campaign in Poland, and what will be the outcome of the forthcoming elections. The podcast was recorded on June 5, 2023. This podcast is pr...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Alexander Skouras, the President of the Greek think tank, Center for Liberal Studies - Markos Dragoumis (KEFiM), a ELF Member Organisation. Ricardo and Alexander talked during the Conference LibertyCon that happened in Lisbon on the 22-23 of April. They go into the importance of think tanks, the ne...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Maurizio Molinari, the Editor in Chief of the daily la Repubblica, a prominent expert on international affairs, the author of more than 20 books, the latest being “The Return of Empires”. They talk about how much the history of fascism weighs on current Italian politics, why Italy will not engage construc...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Visiting Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, and Academic Advisor of the Ayn Rand Centre UK. Nikos and Ricardo "join forces" during LibertyCon that happened in Lisbon on the 22-23 of April. They talk about polarization, identity politics and tribalism, following the publication...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Dr İrem Güçeri, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College, an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and an affiliate of the CESifo Network in Public Economics. They t...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes to the podcast Mathilde Berger-Perrin, an activist in defence of liberal feminism, and Dr Julio Crespo-MacLennan, Adjunct Professor of History of International Relations in the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and the IE University, in Madrid. They talk about if liberalism needs to be rebrand...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorial Director and foreign affairs columnist at the French ‘Le Monde’. They talk about controversies sparked by President Emmanuel Macron with his comments on China, Taiwan, and the United States, about French position on China and transatlantic relations, and about the future of str...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back our "returning champion", Wojciech Przybylski, the President of the Res Publica Foundation and the Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight. They talk about the latest interview of President Macron on what should be a wholesome strategic autonomy for Europe and the European Union. This podcast is p...