European Liberal Forum

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. They talk about how to reinvent broken cities and restore citizens' agency, and why community matters. Find out more about the guest: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Alex Cole-Hamilton, the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. They talk about the alternative to the Scottish National Party (now with a new leader) vision for the future of Scotland, and what is the best way for a return to the European Union. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal F...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Jacques Rupnik, Research Professor at Le Centre de recherches internationales - Center for International Research at Sciences Po in Paris, a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and an expert on the Central and Eastern Europe, a former advisor to Czech President Vaclav Havel and a Member...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Mathias Sundin, Co-Funder & Executive Chairman of Warp Foundation. They talk about the proposal from Warp Foundation to ask Swedish political parties, in the last election cycle, to tell their voters their idea of optimism in their manifestos and governance. This podcast is produced by the Eur...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Eli Gateva, a Departmental Lecturer in European Union Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford, a specialist in EU politics, East and Southeast Europe, EU enlargement and conditionality. They talk about democratic backsliding and why does it matter for...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes the Scottish Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael. They talk about the future of UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is particularly timing as we got to know the new political agreement in principle on the Windsor Framework between UK and EU. They also talk about the...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Wojciech Przybylski, President of the Res Publica Foundation and the Editor-in-Chief of "Visegrad Insight". They talk about four scenarios for the future of CEE and the European Union, redefining EU strategic autonomy, and why a treaty change might be counterproductive. Find out more about the guest: http...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Lucia Plavakova, and Luis Cano. Lucia is a member of the party Progressive Slovaki, a lawyer, human rights activist and public procurement professional. Luís is the founder of Rainbow Platform for the elevation of LGBTQI+ voices by creating role models who can inspire political engagement and chang...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Mark Leonard, Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the first pan-European think tank. They talk about whether ties between countries foster conflicts, how Europe should behave in relation to the aggressive policies of China and Russia, and whether it is possible to...

General of LYMEC. They talk about "The Year of Youth" from last year, the 23/24 cycle preparing for the European Elections and the work done by LYMEC. 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 Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are re...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Melis G. Laebens, Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She holds PhD in political science from Yale University. Her research centers on democratic backsliding, political parties, and electoral behavior. They talk about the Turkish political context and the possible...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Natan Albahari, MP in the Serbian Parliament, and the International Secretary of the liberal party, now part of the ALDE Party "family", Movement of Free Citizens, or Pokret slobodnih građana (in Serbian). They talk about the work done by the party in promoting liberal values, ideas, and policies i...

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....