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Friends of Europe podcasts — 306 episodes
Policy Voices | Election in Hungary: a national vote with European consequences
Policy Voices | Europe’s energy grids: towards a more integrated approach
Policy Voices | Cutting methane, cutting uncertainty: energy security and simplification
Policy Voices | Why is Europe at war and what needs to be done
Policy Voices | Seizing the opportunities of the future
Policy Voices | Personal stories of the Western Balkans' brain drain
Policy Voices | Breaking new ground: Women shaping independence and cybersecurity
Policy Voices | How China is shaping the future of AI
Policy Voices | Fighting for the green transition
Policy Voices | The reconfiguration of global trade connections
Policy Voices | Bringing space diplomacy down to Earth
Policy Voices | Europe's now-or-never moment
Policy Voices | The state of our energy
Policy Voices | What could bring people together?
Policy Voices | Recognising women's peace building work
Policy Voices | The challenges of AI data centres in Europe
Policy Voices | What divides us?
Policy Voices | Ukraine's war, reshaped by women. Ukraine's women, reshaped by war
Policy Voices | (Re)building competitiveness across social divisions
Policy Voices | Rebuilding trust in a polarised society
Policy Voices | Bottom-Up Pressure: Can Communities Shape the Green Future?
Policy Voices | Enlargement and the EU's defence
Policy Voices | Defence in the time of distrust
Policy Voices | A historic NATO summit raises defence spending target to 5% of GDP
Policy Voices | #Throwback: UNRWA’s Jonathan Fowler on Gaza: “It is a war of superlatives”
Policy Voices | (Re)building fairness: What does a better tomorrow look like?
Policy Voices | Poles castigate Tusk and hand again the Presidency to Law and Justice
Policy Voices | Re-imagining Europe’s health systems
Policy Voices | Centre holds in Romania, Portugal but will this be the last chance to prove it can govern?
Policy Voices | With dwindling US support, what is the future of the WPS agenda?
Policy Voices | 75 years later, is it time to revisit the Schuman Declaration?
Policy Voices | Addressing the housing crisis: local solutions for a European problem?
Policy Voices | Making the case for confiscating Russian assets
Policy Voices | Getting serious about European defence integration
Policy Voices | Voices for Choices: Citizens want governments to be more proactive on defence and cybersecurity
Policy Voices | “We must break the cycle of impunity”, urges Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Policy Voices | EU Agency for Fundamental Right’s Director: “You cannot have rights-free zones when the EU is taking action”
Policy Voices | Lina Galvez, Chair of FEMM Committee, on feminism, gender backlash, Pelicot and Hermoso
Policy Voices | Decoding the German elections: Can Merz stop the rise of the AfD?
Policy Voices | The most consequential week for Europe’s security since February 2022
Policy Voices | What is the cost of not doing Carbon Dioxide Removal?
Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on climate action
Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on American democracy
Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on Peace, Security, and Defence
Policy Voices | NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and the future of the alliance
Policy Voices | A “watershed” moment: Is CERN for AI the solution to Europe’s most pressing problems?
Policy Voices | From pledges to promises: can developed nations trust they’ll ever see the money from COP?
Policy Voices | The horse trading that delivered Europe its new Commission
Policy Voices | Reactions from Europe: Trump is in, time for the EU to step up
Policy Voices | A glaciologist and a greentech entrepreneur on a mission to fight climate change
Policy Voices | Rutte’s first month as NATO’s Secretary-General
Policy Voices | Fact-checking in the era of misinformation
Policy Voices | Only the US can influence Israel. But will it?
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Looking ahead and shaping the future of AI and Democracy
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Collaborating for a global impact
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: The role of policies and regulations
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Empowering informed citizens
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Preserving democratic principles in the AI era
Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Unveiling the impact on elections
Policy Voices | Mid-year world tour with Pauline Neville-Jones, Dacian Cioloș
Policy Voices | NATO Summit and the new global order
Policy Voices | The left turn on both sides of the English Channel
Policy Voices | Top jobs: How democratic was it?
Policy Voices | Europe “not equipped” to deal with far-right attacks on LGBTI community
Policy Voices | UNRWA’s Jonathan Fowler on Gaza: “It is a war of superlatives”
Policy Voices | Far-right won’t be able to “call the shots” in the next five years
Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: EU Budget and the Cost of Living
Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Migration and Fundamental Rights
Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Climate Change
Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Artificial Intelligence
Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: European Defence
Policy Voices | Bucharest Summit was not “NATO’s finest hour”, says former NATO chief
Policy Voices | What will it take to keep the EU’s sustainable finance agenda alive?
Policy Voices | RSF’s Jonathan Dagher: Crimes against journalists in Gaza are “systemic”
Policy Voices | Finnish President: Ukraine’s path to NATO membership is “irreversible”
Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: How do we solve this?
Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: Zooming in on Germany
Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: How did we get here?
Policy Voices | #Throwback: Are we alone in the universe?
Policy Voices | Meet NATO’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security
Policy Voices | Portugal’s turn to the far-right on the year it celebrates 50 years of democracy
Policy Voices | EU Directive on violence against women was a “missed opportunity”
Policy Voices | Meet the guardian of the future generations of Wales
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Honouring Alexei Navalny’s legacy: how the EU must react
Policy Voices | #Throwback: What were we asking when Russia invaded Ukraine?
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The 60th Munich Security Conference: Europe must prepare
Policy Voices | Former president of Lithuania: “Putin will not ask for permission”
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Should Turkey’s NATO membership be suspended?
Policy Voices | Thierry Breton on the internal market, European defence
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Call for a paradigm shift in Europe’s approach to Africa
Policy Voices | A book from Ukraine and a scarf from Gaza: legacies from a childhood at war
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The Awkward Squad: dealing with European disruptors
Policy Voices | “We know what we’re doing”: UNOPS on delivering life-saving assistance to Gaza
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The world at war: Challenges for EU diplomacy in 2024
Policy Voices | “For the Taiwanese people there is no Taiwan question”
Policy Voices | Are we alone in the universe?
Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Representative vs. participatory democracy
Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Is civic education the silver bullet?
Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Solutions to an increasingly polarised world
Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Lowering the voting age to 16
Policy Voices | Affordable, reliable and competitive path to net zero: Is it possible?
Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Ideal democracy
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The way forward from COP28
Policy Voices | Argentina's Ambassador on Mercosur, democracy
Policy Voices | The Netherlands chose the far-right. What happens next?
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Strategic implications and lessons from the war in Gaza
Frankly Speaking | Time to get serious: How to close the loophole on sanctions
Policy Voices | Beyond the bare minimum: Fossil fuel phase-down a must at COP28
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How to ensure Ukraine’s long-term success
Policy Voices | Like Goebbels: Polish propaganda and the demise of democracy
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Way ahead on EU enlargement
Frankly Speaking | What to do when your country turns against you? You keep fighting
Policy Voices | ENAR’s Kim Smouter and the paradigm shift needed to address racism in Europe
Policy Voices | Hitting where it hurts: The power of behavioural taxation
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | A global conversation on the future of AI
Frankly Speaking | Shifting focus: Israel and Ukraine, can Europe and America do it all?
Policy Voices | Keeping the human in the loop: How to make a success story of AI in health
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How to ensure free and fair 2024 US presidential elections
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How populism was defeated in Poland’s national elections
Frankly Speaking | Many actors, failed diplomacy: Repercussions of Hamas attack on Israel
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The causes and consequences of Hamas’ attack on Israel
Frankly Speaking | Ukrainian counter-offensive: What is success?
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Inside this week’s UN General Assembly
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Security and defence in the State of the Union speech
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The Summer break turns into the Summer nightmare
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The expansion of the BRICS group
Frankly Speaking | After the war: how to keep Europe safe
Frankly Speaking | Taiwan’s approach to digital democracy
Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | New U.S. debt-limit bill
Frankly Speaking | The battle for your brain
Frankly Speaking | Gender equality in a Renewed Social Contract
Dark Matter Podcast | Germain Garreau & Kaustubh Hakim on exoplanets and extra-terrestrial life
Frankly Speaking | European democracy and the social contract
Dark Matter Podcast | Nivedita Raju on space law
Dark Matter Podcast | Sahba El-Shawa on space and security
Frankly Speaking | The meat grinder
Dark Matter Podcast | Space & Emancipation in Kyrgyzstan
Frankly Speaking | 8 billion strong
Dark Matter Podcast | Stephanie Tumampos on Space and Climate
Frankly Speaking | The depths of insecurity
Frankly Speaking | The convergence of new technologies endangering human agency
Frankly Speaking | Watt’s the deal with PPAs and European electricity?
Frankly Speaking | Womanity in Afghanistan
Frankly Speaking | China’s on-again, off-again with the 17+1
Frankly Speaking | The rubble and relief of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake
Frankly Speaking | Do not normalise the war
Frankly Speaking | Georgia’s road towards EU and NATO accession
Frankly Speaking | Is Russia repeating WWI all over again?
Frankly Speaking | Is the Digital Services Act a match for memes?
Frankly Speaking | Looking back, looking forward
Frankly Speaking | Nothing to balk at: the prospects for Western Balkans integration
Frankly Speaking | United in war, divided in peace
Frankly Speaking | Nine months in to the Russia-Ukraine War
Frankly Speaking | Iran: Unchallenged, till now
Frankly Speaking | ‘Blue Homeland’ and the quest for Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Frankly Speaking | Why the UK is living with its back to the EU
Frankly Speaking | The great decoupling: an Indo-Pacific odyssey
Frankly Speaking | Czeching in on the presidency
Frankly Speaking | Sanctions, energy and tanks: Ukrainian military parity with Russia
Frankly Speaking | Europe in 2030: are we ready?
Frankly Speaking | Putin is counting on cracking Western unity
Frankly Speaking | The European race to space
Frankly Speaking | Here to collect on Russia's debt
Frankly Speaking | Is the Africa-Europe partnership ready for the shocks ahead?
Frankly Speaking | Are we heading for an energy crisis?
Frankly Speaking | Turkey ruffles its feathers over food supplies and Finland
Frankly Speaking | Fighting for the truth in the Western Balkans
Frankly Speaking | The Pope in Ukraine?
Frankly Speaking | The battle for Donbas
Frankly Speaking | Empowering women in a crushing war
Frankly Speaking | Can we trust what the Russians say?
Frankly Speaking | Defence, data, and development of Ukraine
Frankly Speaking | Tilting the balance of power
Frankly Speaking | Two weeks into the war in Ukraine
Frankly Speaking | A new type of war: military, cyber, and disinformation
Frankly Speaking | Crossing the Rubicon: Donetsk and Luhansk
Frankly Speaking | Invasion: Will he, won't he?
Frankly Speaking | Can diplomacy avert war?
Shifting gears: achieving climate neutrality by 2050
World Energy Outlook 2019
Session III – Achieving bold EU national E&C plans through inclusiveness and sustainable finance
Session I – Out with the old, in with the bold: there's an opportunity in the climate crisis
Session II – Energy justice and the industry competitiveness: a mutually beneficial partnership
Equal access to care for rare diseases
Session II: EU Security And Defence In A Wider World
Session I: European Strategic Autonomy – What, where and how?
North Macedonia and its quest for Euro-Atlantic Integration
Sharpening EU Leadership in Plastics Recycling
LAUNCHING A NEW 'VISION FOR EUROPE'
Fabrice Pothier on Deep Fake
WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2018
THE RIPPLE EFFECT: Water as a tool for peace and sustainable development
SECURING THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM HISTORY #1 Peace is the mission
EDUCATING GIRLS - ‘Agenda 2030’ should be ‘Gender 2030’
PUSHING THE FRONTIERS OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
Morning Session II
Morning Session I
Afternoon Session
Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION III
Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION II
Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION I
Security Summit 2018 - Session I
Security Summit 2018 - Session II
Security Summit 2018 - Conversation with Julian King
Conversation with Věra Jourová
Leaving no one behind - The SDG challenge of reaching the last mile
Session III: Growth, jobs and economic cooperation
Session II: Exploring Africa’s creative and digital assets
Session I: Resetting Africa-Europe relations
LEARNING AND ACTING: Walking the talk on youth engagement
LISTENING AND TAKING ACTION: What youth really want
BEYOND CLICHES: Listening and learning from arts and intercultural exchange
WOMAN POWER: Empowerment through business
TECH TALK: Skills and education for the digital age
Conversation with Sherin Khankan
Building climate resilience
The Future of Mobility: Hydrogen and Electric
Terror and the City
Women, Peace and Security
Session I: ASEAN, Europe and a Volatile World
Session II: Will EU-ASEAN Relations Still Matter in Forty Years?
Modern security is more than military spending - Towards a single security budget?
Urban responses to refugees
Europe, Japan and Africa: Facing up together to Africa’s infrastructure challenges
Coping with antimicrobial resistance
Balkans Summit 2017: Think local, act regional
Balkans Summit 2017: Business outlook perks up but reforms must continue
Balkans Summit 2017: Peace, democracy and reconciliation
Security Summit 2017: Looking inwards
Security Summit 2017: Looking southwards
Security Summit 2017: Looking eastwards
Innovations in housing finance
Housing, social inclusion and economic mobility
Understanding China's "soft power" and influence
World Energy Outlook 2017
Making the digital revolution work better, faster for development
Climate and Energy Summit 2017: Climate cooperation stepping up a gear
Climate and Energy Summit 2017: Making way for the big green bang
Climate and Energy Summit 2017: What price for a greener future?
Cecilia Malmström: untapped potential in EU-China trade relations
Ambassador Yang Yanyi: EU-China relations are now more important than ever
The future of road freight transport
Transatlantic cooperation and Europe's Southern neighborhood
Jamie Shea on the future role and challenges of NATO
Teri Schultz: citizens are looking for more security
EU-China Forum: shaping a new world order
EU-China Forum: the Belt and Road initiative
Access, care and diagnosis for rare diseases
Innovation in the energy transition
Hiroshi Hiraoka on the opportunities of African agriculture
Leymah Gbowee: what struggles for the civil society in Liberia?
Caroline Kawira: how to encourage the young to stay in the rural areas?
Economic inequalities within ASEAN countries - Chem Srey Oeun
Delia Domingo - Albert on the history of ASEAN
The EU 'Trade for All' strategy - Helena König
Pierre Amhilat: can the EU still matter to ASEAN?
Africa Summit - Investing in Africa's future
Africa Summit - Reconciling urban and rural
Conversation with HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
Boosting EU-ASEAN economic ties
ASEAN at fifty - Globalisation's winners and losers
ASEAN at fifty – Living in a challenging world
Financing healthcare
Clean energy investments falling - Anders Marvik
Low carbon infrastructure beyond banks' balance sheets - Ingrid Holmes
Finance industry must catch up with technology - Mark Lewis
Investors have an appetite for infrastructure - Michael Wilkins
How policy makers can support private sector initiatives - Ugo Bassi
France and the future of European defence
Financing a low-carbon economy
Jacques Bughin on global migration flows
Figures on migration in the EU - Belinda Pyke
How Amsterdam integrates refugees - Kajsa Ollongren
Refugees bring in talents - Paul Mbikayi
Yara Al-Adib on integrating women refugees
Education as an instrument of inclusion - Jürgen Siebel
Perspectives on upcoming Brexit talks - Mogens Peter Carl
Migration and Integration: a cost-benefit analysis
Benedek Jávor: the EU has a huge responsibility on deforestation
Brendan McNamara: sustainable financing at HSBC
Danielle Morley: sustainable palm oil is possible
Nazir Foead: Indonesia can be a new leader in peatland conservation
Sebastien Risso calling for a deforestation-free EU
Giles Merritt on the future of the EU budget after Brexit
Scenarios for the UK being out of the EU Single Market - Giles Merritt
Brexit negotiations on trade in services - Mogens Peter Carl
Deforestation – a sustainable dilemma
We must keep working for women's empowerment - Daniel Seymour
Women are not only victims - Monique Pariat
Oula Ramadan on women's importance in Syrian civil society
Japan, China and South Korea – trilateral cooperation in the Trump era
Women and the new humanitarian agenda
Kirsty Hughes on Scotland's EU membership after Brexit
Shaping the world: a pivotal moment in research and innovation for global health
Carlos Moedas: investing in health will help the EU reconnect to the people
Bill Gates: only through R&D will we beat neglected diseases
Youth employment in ACP countries - Viwanou Gnassounou
Creating markets in fragile states - Nena Stoiljkovic
Unlocking private sector investment in fragile states
Conversation with Johannes Hahn
BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION III
BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION II
BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION I
Kirsty Hughes on BBC Scotland - 30 Nov 2016
Conversation on Europe’s Digital Single Market with Andrus Ansip
World Energy Outlook – energy mix for the post-COP21 world