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Centre for European Reform — 292 episodes

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Unpacking Europe: UK defence policy and role in NATO in the Burnham government

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Unpacking Europe: 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum

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CER podcast: Unpacking Europe: Rearming Europe for deterrence

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Unpacking Europe: The path to EU enlargement

5

Unpacking Europe: How Europe is responding in Lebanon and Palestine

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CER podcast: Unpacking Europe: Is the EU-US trade deal unravelling?

7

CER podcast: Unpacking Europe: Hungary's landslide election outcome

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CER podcast: Unpacking Europe: The future of EU-Türkiye relations

9

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Four years of war in Ukraine

10

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Will 2026 be the year to reset the reset?

11

Unpacking Europe: The trade implications of ruptures in transatlantic relations

12

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Greenland and the NATO alliance

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The EU in 2025

14

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The far right and democratic backsliding in Europe

15

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The instability of Macron’s France

16

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The causes of the rise of populism

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Russia's negotiating tactics & Ukraine's negotiating objectives

18

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The economic future of EU tech regulation

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: EU trade policy after Trump

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: One year after the Draghi report

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CER Podcast: Latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Trump’s tariffs and digital policy

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Immigration reform in the UK

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The 2025 NATO summit

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The geopolitics of the war in the Middle East

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Britain's trade stagnation

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CER podcast: Unpacking Europe: Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Will the UK-EU summit reset relations?

29

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The implications of Trump's tariffs

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The future of EU-India relations

31

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Can Europe still rely on the United States?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: A snapshot of the war in Ukraine

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: How can Europe survive Trump's tariffs and a second China shock?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Trump's inauguration: What's next?

35

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: The EU in 2024

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Labour's plan for the EU

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What does Trump mean for European security?

38

CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Moldova and Georgia: In Brussels’ orbit, or Moscow’s?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Europe and the Middle East - just a bystander?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What does the US presidential election mean for Europe’s economy?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Mario Draghi's report on competitiveness

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: NATO at 75

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What's happening in France and what it means for Europe

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What the Labour landslide means for UK-EU relations

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What would a Labour government mean for Europe?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Winners, losers and implications of the European elections

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CER event audio: Unpacking Europe: Paving the path for future EU enlargement

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: What to expect from a more right-wing European Parliament

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: How is China's foreign policy shifting?

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CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Enrico Letta’s report on the single market

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CER Podcast: Unlocking better regulation in Europe

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CER Podcast: Can Berlin and Brussels disentangle their economy from China’s grasp?

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CER Podcast: How is the EU's role in European defence changing?

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CER Podcast: War in Ukraine: Where are we two years on?

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CER Podcast: Europe's defence production challenge

56

CER Podcast: The Taiwan election: China cares, but should Europe?

57

CER review of 2023: What's next for Europe?

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CER Podcast: Can EU enlargement happen without reform?

59

CER Podcast: Will Wilders’ Dutch election win weaken the EU?

60

CER Podcast: What does AI mean for Europe?

61

CER Podcast: Where is Europe in the Israel Hamas conflict?

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CER Podcast: EU enlargement and reform, migration and the EPC summit

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CER Podcast: A European strategy for Labour

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CER Podcast: Ukraine's road to EU membership

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CER Podcast: Will political turmoil in Spain and the Netherlands leave the EU in a tough spot?

66

CER Podcast: Is the EU ready for enlargement?

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CER Podcast: NATO in Vilnius: What's next for Ukraine?

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CER podcast: The politics of China-US-EU trade: Pulling up the drawbridge?

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CER podcast: We have to talk about Spain

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Ask CER - Episode 9: Turkish elections, industrial policy and Ukraine joining NATO

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CER podcast: What's at stake in Turkey's historic election?

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CER podcast: What is the EU's China policy?

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CER podcast: Berlin versus Brussels: The politics of EU fiscal rules

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CER podcast: Russian hybrid threats

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CER Podcast: What does the Windsor Framework mean for EU-UK relations?

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CER podcast: One year of war in Ukraine

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Ask CER - Episode 8: Inflation Reduction Act, Qatargate and Iran

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CER podcast: Brexit and the labour market

79

CER podcast: The cost of Brexit

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CER podcast: The implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine

81

CER podcast: Will the EU unblock Hungary’s funds?

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CER podcast: Will the Commission’s fiscal rules plan work?

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CER podcast: Can Rishi Sunak reset the UK-EU relationship?

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Ask CER: Episode 7 - Emergency EU energy measures, UK divergence from EU rules & EU power shifts

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CER podcast: What might Macron's European Political Community look like?

86

CER podcast: Finding a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol

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Ask CER: The EU's China challenge, its plans for tax reform, and the unfinished banking union

88

CER podcast: The Tory leadership contest and what it means for Europe

89

CER podcast: Draghi out - What next for Italy?

90

Ask CER: Europe’s defence muscle, Russian-Western relations, CBDCs and the EU's green transition

91

CER event audio: 24th birthday reception with Keir Starmer's speech on Labour's post-Brexit plans

92

CER podcast: What next on the path for Ukraine's EU membership?

93

CER podcast: Is Brexit to blame for Britain's economic woes?

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CER podcast: Unpacking the EU's new tech laws - and the UK's answer to them

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CER podcast: Where will Macron now take France and Europe?

96

CER podcast: Water scarcity: Libya's forgotten issue

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Ask CER - Episode 4: Phasing out Russian gas, UK-EU relations now and Hungary’s response to the war

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CER podcast: Unpicking the EU's rule of law conditionality mechanism

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CER podcast: The Russia-Ukraine crisis as seen from Kyiv and Paris

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CER podcast: Do states need to use more economic coercion to drive climate action?

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Ask CER - Episode 3: Strategic autonomy, the EU's taxonomy and the French election

102

CER end of year podcast: Review of 2021

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CER podcast: Poland and Belarus: What can and should the EU do?

104

Ask CER episode 2: Europe's climate challenges, the EU's recovery fund & the latest on Nord Stream 2

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CER podcast: What's the state of UK-EU relations?

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CER podcast: Europe's gas crisis heats up

107

Ask CER - Episode 1: EU integration, democratic backsliding & UK financial services regulation

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CER podcast: German foreign and security policy after the election

109

CER podcast: Why the 1991 Moscow coup still resonates

110

CER/OSEPI podcast: How should the EU tackle corruption?

111

CER podcast: The EU's climate action plan for 2030: What's inside the Fit for 55 package?

112

CER podcast: How well will the UK's European diplomatic strategy work?

113

CER podcast: Frans Timmermans on the EU and climate

114

CER podcast: Joe Biden's bridge-building European tour

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CER podcast: Political repression in Belarus and what the West can do about it

116

CER podcast: How can Europe decarbonise road transport without sparking backlash?

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CER podcast: The EU’s plans for Big Tech

118

CER podcast: Russia and Ukraine: A worsening crisis?

119

CER podcast: Europe needs a new approach to the Sahel

120

CER podcast: Britain after the pandemic

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CER podcast: The politics of vaccines in Europe

122

CER podcast: What does Draghi's new government mean for Italy and Europe?

123

CER podcast: Roaring twenties? Prospects for the economic recovery

124

CER podcast: What next for post-Merkel Germany?

125

CER podcast: The future UK-EU relationship

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CER end of year podcast: Reflecting on 2020

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CER podcast: Can the EU bring its neighbouring countries further into its orbit?

128

CER podcast: Can the EU use trade and investment policies to advance its strategic goals?

129

CER podcast: Is Europe falling behind technologically?

130

CER podcast: How should the EU approach China?

131

CER podcast: The global recovery from the pandemic: How can we get it right this time?

132

CER podcast: Biden vs Trump: America's choice matters to Europe

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CER podcast: Europe, the US and China: A love-hate triangle?

134

CER podcast: Brexit, the Internal Market Bill and the prospects for a deal

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CER/OSEPI podcast: The new migration pact: A "fresh start" or more of the same?

136

New CER podcast: What does the 2020 SOTEU speech reveal about the EU’s ambition?

137

CER podcast: Tensions rising between Turkey and EU in Eastern Mediterranean

138

CER podcast: A rigged election in Belarus: Can Lukashenka cling to power?

139

CER podcast: The EU's increasingly troubled relationship with China

140

CER podcast: Belarus may be less stable than it appears

141

CER podcast: The EU’s €750 billion question: How should the COVID-19 recovery fund be spent?

142

CER podcast: Can the EU and the UK strike a deal on their future relationship?

143

CER podcast: Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic is deepening the transatlantic rift

144

CER podcast: A Hamilton moment?

145

CER podcast: Putin hits a bad patch

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CER podcast: What does COVID-19 mean for the EU-UK trade talks?

147

CER podcast: The EU, the US and China: Irresponsible stakeholders in the global order?

148

CER podcast: The EU must fight COVID-19 on the home front and abroad

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CER podcast: Western leaders should talk to Putin, but not be taken in by him

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CER podcast: How to contain the coronavirus fall-out

151

CER podcast: Are the Brexit negotiations doomed to fail?

152

CER podcast: A 'sovereign' EU needs a stable economy

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CER podcast: Europe and Libya

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CER podcast: Brexit bulletin special

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CER podcast: Democracy and the rule of law in the EU

156

CER podcast: Can Europe overcome its paralysis on Palestine?

157

CER podcast: Reviewing 2019

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CER podcast: Where is Turkey going?

159

Episode 5: Growing regional divergence

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Episode 1: Europe’s demographic time bomb

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Episode 2: Europe’s role between the US and China

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Episode 3: Gridlock in the eurozone

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Episode 4: The political economy of climate change

164

CER podcast: The cost of Brexit to June 2019

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CER podcast: What next for Brexit?

166

CER podcast: Von der Leyen's carbon border tax

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CER podcast: Meet the new European Commission

168

CER podcast: Negotiations after no-deal Brexit

169

CER podcast: The EU's Security Union

170

CER podcast: Does the EU need a common arms export policy?

171

CER podcast: EU top jobs

172

CER podcast: The Big European Sort? The diverging fortunes of Europe's regions

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CER podcast: What is a customs union?

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CER podcast: European Parliament elections special

175

CER event audio: CER/FES conference on Europe's climate challenge, panel 3

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CER event audio: CER/FES conference on Europe's climate challenge, panel 2

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CER event audio: CER/FES conference on 'Europe's climate challenge', panel 1

178

CER podcast: A guide to the Spanish election

179

CER podcast: Europe and Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi

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CER podcast: The cost of Brexit to December 2018

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CER podcast: Europe after Brexit

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CER podcast: Why Europe needs legal migration

183

CER podcast: What next for Brexit?

184

CER podcast: Brexit and services

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CER Bulletin podcast: Trumpian foreign policy; Europe's economic slowdown; populism in Spain

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CER podcast: The rule of law under threat

187

Episode 5: Should governments be more interventionist?

188

Episode 4: The macroeconomic implications of low productivity growth

189

Episode 3: Will the median worker do better or worse in the future?

190

Episode 2: What explains the productivity slowdown?

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Episode 1: What happens to our politics if our economies do not grow?

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CER podcast: CER researchers review the year 2018

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CER Bulletin podcast: China and the EU; fighting disinformation

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CER podcast: A guide to the withdrawal agreement

195

CER podcast: One year since Macron's Sorbonne speech

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CER podcast: The cost of Brexit to June 2018

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CER event audio: CER 20th birthday party, London

198

CER podcast: Instability in Libya and a divided EU

199

CER Bulletin podcast: Singapore-on-Thames; the Western Balkans; Italy

200

CER podcast: Another referendum?

201

CER podcast: What is the cost of Brexit?

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CER podcast: A guide to the White Paper

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CER event podcast: CER/KAS Conference on 'Plugging in the British: Completing the circuit'

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CER event audio: CER/KAS conference on 'Plugging in the British: Completing the circuit'

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CER podcast: Plugging in the British to EU justice and home affairs

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CER podcast: Is Macron becoming isolated in Europe?

207

CER Bulletin podcast: Transatlantic relationship; Brexit & financial services; UK-EU defence

208

CER podcast: A briefing on Italy's new government

209

CER podcast: NATO and the transatlantic defence relationship

210

CER podcast: The Customs Union debate

211

CER podcast: Defence co-operation after Brexit: A positive sum game?

212

CER audio clip: Ian Bond speaks to LBC Radio about Russian reaction to allied strikes on Syria

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CER Bulletin podcast: EU reform; Brexit and foreign policy; Europe and cyber security

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Brexit negotiations: Will the unity of the 27 crack?

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CER podcast: Security after Brexit

216

CER event audio: CER/DGAP launch of 'Can EU funds promote the rule of law in Europe?'

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CER podcast: A European agenda for Germany

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CER podcast: A briefing on Italy's election

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CER podcast: Brexit negotiations phase 2: The politics of regulatory alignment

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CER Bulletin podcast: Trade post Brexit; EU vs Poland; Trump's foreign policy

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CER podcast: A briefing on Nordstream 2

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CER podcast: CER researchers review the year 2017

223

CER podcast: Will there be reforms for the eurozone?

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CER event audio: London launch of 'Ulster's fight, Ulster's rights?'

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How to save the EU, Episode 2: What does the illiberal backlash in newer EU members mean?

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How to save the EU, Episode 3: Is the EU still the answer to globalisation?

227

How to save the EU, Episode 1: Who is opposed to the EU and why?

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Relaunching the EU - Episode 2: Migration and security

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Relaunching the EU - Episode 3: Reforming the eurozone

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Relaunching the EU - Episode 1: A more flexible Union

231

CER podcast: Should we learn to live with a nuclear North Korea?

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CER podcast: Peacekeepers for Ukraine?

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CER event audio: Dominic Grieve MP speaks at the CER fringe event at #CPC17

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CER event audio: Konrad Szymański speaks at the CER fringe event at #CPC17

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CER event audio: Andrea Leadsom MP speaks at the CER fringe event at #CPC17

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CER event audio: Juliet Samuel of The Telegraph speaks at the CER fringe event at #CPC17

237

CER podcast: EU values and interests in the age of Trump

238

CER podcast: Briefing on the German election

239

CER podcast: François Heisbourg on Franco-German defence co-operation and the EU defence fund

240

CER podcast: Brexit negotiations: Players and process on the EU side

241

CER podcast: The Middle East peace process - state of play

242

CER podcast: Security co-operation after Brexit

243

CER podcast: UK election primer

244

CER podcast: Why no deal is not better than a bad deal

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CER podcast: Strategic co-operation and competition in the Arctic

246

CER podcast: Why the UK voted to leave, and lessons for the EU 27

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CER podcast: The EU, Russia and China: Difficult neighbours?

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CER podcast: What does Macron's victory mean for France, the UK, the EU and the world?

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CER podcast: What UK-EU trade deal after Brexit?

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CER podcast: Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska on the triggering of Article 50

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CER podcast: CER researchers discuss the 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome

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CER podcast: Charles Grant on Theresa May's emerging Brexit deal

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CER podcast: Daniel Keohane on the future of European Defence after Brexit and Trump

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CER podcast: What free movement means to Europe and why it matters to Britain

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CER podcast: Kori Schake on Donald Trump and what he means for Europe

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Keynote speech by Sir Julian King on 'Making a success of the EU's security union'

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CER podcast: Rob Wainwright and Camino Mortera-Martinez on Europol and UK-EU security co-operation

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CER podcast: 5 questions on Trade, Trump and TTIP

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CER podcast: CER researchers review the year 2016

260

CER podcast series: The economics of populism, episode five

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CER podcast series: The economics of populism, episode four

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CER podcast series: The economics of populism, episode three

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CER podcast series: The economics of populism, episode two

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CER podcast series: The economics of populism, episode one

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CER podcast: What the US elections and Brexit mean for US-EU relations

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CER podcast: Charles Grant and Jean Pisani-Ferry on UK-EU relations and the future of the Eurozone

267

CER podcast: What the fall of sterling means for the British economy and post-Brexit politics

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CER podcast: The rights of EU migrants in Britain after Brexit

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CER podcast: Charles Grant on negotiating Brexit – priorities on both sides of the channel

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CER podcast: Last week in EU affairs

271

CER podcast: Simon Tilford and Alexander Stubb on Brexit and the future of Britain and the EU

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CER podcast: Charles Grant and Nick Clegg on Brexit challenges

273

CER podcast: 5 questions on Theresa May's Brexit negotiations

274

CER Podcast: 5 questions on Theresa May’s visit to Warsaw

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CER podcast: Five questions on territorial disputes in the South China Sea

276

CER podcast: 5 questions on the attempted coup in Turkey

277

CER podcast: Discussion on Theresa May's new cabinet

278

Centre For European Reform's 18th Birthday Party

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CER podcast: The EU referendum - a fact free debate

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CER podcast: Europe after Bremain - an agenda for the UK

281

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska on 'The Economist Asks: EU referendum special'

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CER podcast: The impact of a Brexit on different British regions

283

CER podcast: Debate on - Can Britain join Norway in the EEA?

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CER podcast: EU capitals weigh in on the Brexit debate

285

CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for EU institutions

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CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of Brexit for EU JHA policies

287

CER podcast: Five questions on the economic implications of a Brexit for the EU

288

CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for the EU

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Economists on Brexit vote: Would leaving the EU damage the UK economy?

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CER podcast: The Dutch-Ukraine referendum

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CER podcast: Emergency EU Turkey summit

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CER podcast: Cameron's EU deal