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Ken Sweeney chats with Deirdre Finlay who is European Programmes Manager with the Wheel. The Wheel is an Irish based national association of community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises. Deirdre discusses her role as National Contact Point for Europe for Citizens which is an accessible European funding programme that is open to organisations that would like to engage in...

Ken Sweeney and Ola Jasińska chat with Tobias Gerhard Schminke who is the founder of Europe Elects , an organisation that provides Poll aggregation and election analysis for countries in the European Union. By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that the entire contents and design of this Podcast, are the property of The European Network, or used by The European Network with permission, and are...

Ken Sweeney chats with Sophia Wellek who is Project Manager at M100 Sanssouci Colloquium. The M100 Sanssouci Colloquium was initiated in 2005 by a group of leading media and public figures when Potsdam was running for European Capital of Culture 2010. Since then the conference annually takes place in Park Sanssouci. The international forum brings together Europe`s top editors, commentators and med...

Ken Sweeney and Ben Hall chat with Laura Enache of Junior Chamber International and Dominik Kirchdorfer about their organisations and their recent experiences with their European election campaigns. Laura tells us about the JCI Step Up For Europe initiative while Dominik brings us up to date on the European Future Forum and Euro Babble which are two organisations he formed in 2018. By accessing th...

Ken Sweeney and Stella Bass are joined by Ben Hall from Junior Chamber International for our bumper European Election podcast. It's the final week before the election and we review the final European Presidential debate as well as a review of the Irish MEP candidates. We also discuss our awarding of the Communicating Europe Grant by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.   By accessing this...

Frances Cowell interviews David Williams who is Chief Editor of Agence France-Presse. Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Agence Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C., and news bureaux in 151 countries in 201 locations. Frances also chats...

Ken Sweeney chats with Roger Casale about his work with civil rights organisation New Europeans and his recent decision to run as a candidate for the forthcoming European Parliamentary elections in May for Change UK. By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that the entire contents and design of this Podcast, are the property of The European Network, or used by The European Network with permission...

Four Europeans sit down in a Dublin coffee shop to chat about the European elections. Ken Sweeney and Christos Mouzeviris met with Ben Hall and Sarka Valkova from Junior Chamber International, commonly referred to as JCI, a non-profit international non-governmental organization of young people between 18 and 40 years old. We also feature an exclusive interview with Bas Eickhout, one of the Europea...

Ken Sweeney chats with Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy. Matt has been an MEP since 2014 and Sinn Féin are a member of GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament. They discuss the border poll in the wake of Brexit, Scottish independence and European influence at national levels.   By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that the entire contents and design of this Podcast, are the property of The Euro...

The European Network is delighted to present the first in a series of podcasts and we decided to kick off in Brussels where we were guests of European Parliament in Ireland. To listen to the podcast, just click on the link below. Keep your ears out for our next podcast coming very soon.   Our first guest was Kate Hickey from Irish Central , an leading Irish digital media company in North Amer...