European Liberal Forum

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...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Dimitar Bechev, Lecturer Oxford School of Global & Area Studies and a Visiting Scholar of Carnegie Europe. They talk about the Balkans in the context of the EU enlargement, the current situation in respective potential candidates, opportunities and threats resulting from premature entry into the EU, and t...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes MEP Urmas Paet, from the Eesti Reformierakond Party in Estonia, and the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. They go into the actual crises in Europe, how can Russia change and how the EU expansion process will go for new (and longer status) country candidates.  This podcast is produced...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Gerald Knaus, the founding European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding chairman and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. They talk about the enlargement policy of the European Union, new potential EU members, the "New Cold War", and the future of the European project. Find ou...

In this podcast episode, Crista Grönroos, Policy Adviser, the Swedish People's Party of Finland and Bjorn Borsdorff, Policy Adviser Svenska bildningsförbundet are interviewing Rachel Ellehuus, Senior Civilian Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe, (SECDEFREPEUR) and Defense Advisor at the US Mission to NATO. Previously, Rachel Ellehuus worked as a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director w...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Mats Löfström, member of the Finnish Parliament, vice chairman of the Swedish People’s Party’s parliamentary group, and Board Member of ELF. They talk about Finland and NATO, how we got here, were we are, and the future of that military union. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Niccolo Milanese, Director of European Alternatives, a poet and a philosopher based in Paris, who together with Lorenzo Marsili co-authored "Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself". They talk about the recent parliamentary election in France and its consequences for the future of Europe,...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Dan-Aria Sucuri, the President of LYMEC, to talk about the importance of liberal youth in the political future of Europe and the European Union, and the work done by the organization he now presides. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Soci...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law & Policy at HEC Paris and one of the leading voices on the democratization of the European Union. They talk about business in light of the war in Ukraine, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Conference on the Future of Europe, and lobbying. Find...

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 Dr Antonios Nestoras, the Policy and Research Coordinator at the Policy and Research Unit, inside the European Liberal Forum. They talk about the importance of a...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Giulio Ercolessi, an Italian journalist, writer, essayist, a former president of the European Humanist Federation, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the European Liberal Forum (ELF). They talk about the Catholic Church and the Pope in the context of the socio-political situation in Italy an...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Dr Antonios Nestoras, the Policy and Research Coordinator at the Policy and Research Unit, inside the European Liberal Forum. They talk about the work done by the Unit, an in particular for this conversation, the Working Group Foreign Affairs, Neighbourhood and Enlargement. This podcast is produced...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Gabor Halmai, Professor and the Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department at the European University Institute. They talk about the rule of law, EU funds, and the socio-political situation in Poland and Hungary. This podcast is produced by the Europ...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) continues a conversation on the need for LGBTI Freedom Zones In Practice, or, as guest will propose, The Rainbow Community. Our guest is the member of OpenVld and the President of the Belgian Senate, Stephanie D’Hose. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Lib...