European Liberal Forum

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...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Yuri Guaiana, Secretary of LGBTI Liberals of Europe and a LGBT+ activist in Italy and internationally. They go over the main takeaways of the ELF conference LGBTI Freedom Zones in Practice.   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 Maciej Kuziemski, Data Programme Adviser at the Ditchley Foundation and an independent expert at the European Commission. They talk about the recent takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, its implications for liberal democracies, and the future of social media. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Paul Gradvohl, Professor at the Research Centre for Contemporary Central European History, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. They talk about the presidential election in France and the possible outcomes in the current geopolitical situation - with a special focus on the war in Ukraine. This podcast is...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Vera Demary, the Head of Digitisation Research at the German Economic Institute. They talk about data economy, data spaces, and economic and cibersecurity threats that arise from this kind of mass data collection. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Moviment...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Dr Péter Krekó, the Director of the Political Capital Institute, based in Budapest, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. They talk about the forthcoming election to the National Assembly in Hungary, the possible outcomes in the current geopolitical situation, and their implicati...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Szabolcs Sóber, the Head of the International Office at Momentum Movement, the liberal party in Hungary. They talk about the upcoming Parliamentary elections, the primary process from the opposition coalition, the protection of the election, and what will came next after the results are known. This...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Alicja Bachulska, a MapInfluenCE China analyst in Poland and a member of China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE). They talk about the impact of the Russian aggression in Ukraine in a more global context - with the focus on China. Recommended reading: https://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/fil...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Professor Joshua Cherniss, from Georgetown University. They talk about his new book, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century, a timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents. This podcast is produced by the European Libera...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes back Paulo Frigyies, the Swedish writer and journalist, author of the book “In Ukraine, Adrift”, to talk about Ukraine and the Ukranian people in this terrible moment of their history, but how they are strong, resilient and determined to reclaim their place in a liberal and democratic Europe.

We present you the first podcast from the Liberal Europe Podcast: The CEE Focus. In the first episode, the host, Leszek Jażdżewski, Vice-President of the Board of the Poland-based Liberte! Foundation and the Editor-in-Chief of the Liberte! magazine, talks to Olha Konsevych, a Ukrainian journalist and researcher, the Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian newspaltform 24tv.ua, about the war in Ukraine. T...

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Leszek Jazdzewski from Liberté Foundation (Fundacja Liberté!) to introduce this years podcast, and the novelty of having a new series of episodes: Liberal Europe Podcast, Central and Eastern Europe focus. This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal...

Since July 2019 Werner Amon is the Austrian Ombudsman and was appointed Secretary General of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI). Werner Amon counts on more than 25 years of experience as a member of the Austrian Parliament and also gained extensive professional experience in the international field. As spokesman of the Austrian People's Party, Werner Amon was responsible for the areas of...