World Questions

BBC World Questions comes to Bogota, Colombia, as the country seeks a recipe for peace and an end to one of the world's longest running conflicts. President Juan Manuel Santos has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, but the people rejected his deal with the leader of The Farc in a referendum. A new deal has been signed, but will it have legitimacy without a second referendum? BBC World Questio...

Hungary has just held a deeply controversial referendum on the EU’s plan to impose migrant quotas. The European Union wants to share the responsibility for those entering the region through its southern borders. Many of them refugees from war. In a lively and frank debate at Corvinus University, Budapest, a large public audience debates freedom, democracy and immigration with a panel of politician...

As the UK prepares to vote on whether to stay or leave the European Union we hear different sides of Britain's great debate. Jonathan Dimbleby is joined by former EU Commissioner Lord Chris Patten and the economic historian Nick Crafts, both who favour remaining in the EU, as well as former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen and the economist Ruth Lea who support Britain leaving the European Union....

As Europe faces some of the greatest crises of modern time, Germany’s leadership in the Europe Union has been put under pressure. World Questions is in Berlin at the Deutsches Historiches Museum to explore a German audience’s questions to a panel of opinion-formers and decision-makers. Jonathan Dimbleby is joined by Aydan Özoguz, Cabinet Member and Federal Commissioner for Immigration, Refugees an...

We're at the National Library of Latvia in the capital, Riga, for the third of our series of debates across Europe. Questions on the challenges and opportunies ahead for this northern European Baltic state - which lies on the EU's border with northern Russia - are answered by a panel of Latvian politicians and thinkers: Nils Ušakovs, the ethnic-Russian mayor of Riga; Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš, chair of...

Nowhere has felt the challenge of mass migration and pain of austerity more keenly than Greece, or has struggled harder in its relationship with the European Union. From the Megaron concert hall in Athens, the BBC's Jonathan Dimbleby discusses the issues with a panel of politicians and thinkers - The Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos; the former Mayor of Athens and former Foreign Minister D...

As Europe faces some of the biggest crises of modern times - the mass movement of migrants across its borders, and now the attacks on Paris - Jonathan Dimbleby hosts a discussion on these and other important issues impacting Europe. Recorded in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, at the heart of the EU, you will hear from Frans Timmermans, the first vice president of the European Commisison,...