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Policy Voices | Election in Hungary: a national vote with European consequences

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Policy Voices | Europe’s energy grids: towards a more integrated approach

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Policy Voices | Cutting methane, cutting uncertainty: energy security and simplification

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Policy Voices | Why is Europe at war and what needs to be done

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Policy Voices | Seizing the opportunities of the future

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Policy Voices | Personal stories of the Western Balkans' brain drain

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Policy Voices | Breaking new ground: Women shaping independence and cybersecurity

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Policy Voices | How China is shaping the future of AI

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Policy Voices | Fighting for the green transition

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Policy Voices | The reconfiguration of global trade connections

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Policy Voices | Bringing space diplomacy down to Earth

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Policy Voices | Europe's now-or-never moment

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Policy Voices | The state of our energy

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Policy Voices | What could bring people together?

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Policy Voices | Recognising women's peace building work

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Policy Voices | The challenges of AI data centres in Europe

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Policy Voices | What divides us?

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Policy Voices | Ukraine's war, reshaped by women. Ukraine's women, reshaped by war

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Policy Voices | (Re)building competitiveness across social divisions

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Policy Voices | Rebuilding trust in a polarised society

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Policy Voices | Bottom-Up Pressure: Can Communities Shape the Green Future?

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Policy Voices | Enlargement and the EU's defence

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Policy Voices | Defence in the time of distrust

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Policy Voices | A historic NATO summit raises defence spending target to 5% of GDP

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Policy Voices | #Throwback: UNRWA’s Jonathan Fowler on Gaza: “It is a war of superlatives”

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Policy Voices | (Re)building fairness: What does a better tomorrow look like?

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Policy Voices | Poles castigate Tusk and hand again the Presidency to Law and Justice

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Policy Voices | Re-imagining Europe’s health systems

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Policy Voices | Centre holds in Romania, Portugal but will this be the last chance to prove it can govern?

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Policy Voices | With dwindling US support, what is the future of the WPS agenda?

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Policy Voices | 75 years later, is it time to revisit the Schuman Declaration?

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Policy Voices | Addressing the housing crisis: local solutions for a European problem?

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Policy Voices | Making the case for confiscating Russian assets

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Policy Voices | Getting serious about European defence integration

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Policy Voices | Voices for Choices: Citizens want governments to be more proactive on defence and cybersecurity

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Policy Voices | “We must break the cycle of impunity”, urges Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Policy Voices | EU Agency for Fundamental Right’s Director: “You cannot have rights-free zones when the EU is taking action”

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Policy Voices | Lina Galvez, Chair of FEMM Committee, on feminism, gender backlash, Pelicot and Hermoso

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Policy Voices | Decoding the German elections: Can Merz stop the rise of the AfD?

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Policy Voices | The most consequential week for Europe’s security since February 2022

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Policy Voices | What is the cost of not doing Carbon Dioxide Removal?

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Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on climate action

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Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on American democracy

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Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on Peace, Security, and Defence

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Policy Voices | NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and the future of the alliance

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Policy Voices | A “watershed” moment: Is CERN for AI the solution to Europe’s most pressing problems?

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Policy Voices | From pledges to promises: can developed nations trust they’ll ever see the money from COP?

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Policy Voices | The horse trading that delivered Europe its new Commission

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Policy Voices | Reactions from Europe: Trump is in, time for the EU to step up

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Policy Voices | A glaciologist and a greentech entrepreneur on a mission to fight climate change

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Policy Voices | Rutte’s first month as NATO’s Secretary-General

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Policy Voices | Fact-checking in the era of misinformation

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Policy Voices | Only the US can influence Israel. But will it?

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Looking ahead and shaping the future of AI and Democracy

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Collaborating for a global impact

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: The role of policies and regulations

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Empowering informed citizens

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Preserving democratic principles in the AI era

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Policy Voices | AI & Democracy: Unveiling the impact on elections

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Policy Voices | Mid-year world tour with Pauline Neville-Jones, Dacian Cioloș

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Policy Voices | NATO Summit and the new global order

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Policy Voices | The left turn on both sides of the English Channel

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Policy Voices | Top jobs: How democratic was it?

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Policy Voices | Europe “not equipped” to deal with far-right attacks on LGBTI community

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Policy Voices | UNRWA’s Jonathan Fowler on Gaza: “It is a war of superlatives”

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Policy Voices | Far-right won’t be able to “call the shots” in the next five years

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Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: EU Budget and the Cost of Living

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Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Migration and Fundamental Rights

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Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Climate Change

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Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: Artificial Intelligence

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Policy Voices | EU Elections Series: European Defence

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Policy Voices | Bucharest Summit was not “NATO’s finest hour”, says former NATO chief

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Policy Voices | What will it take to keep the EU’s sustainable finance agenda alive?

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Policy Voices | RSF’s Jonathan Dagher: Crimes against journalists in Gaza are “systemic”

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Policy Voices | Finnish President: Ukraine’s path to NATO membership is “irreversible”

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Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: How do we solve this?

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Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: Zooming in on Germany

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Policy Voices | Far-right in Europe: How did we get here?

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Policy Voices | #Throwback: Are we alone in the universe?

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Policy Voices | Meet NATO’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security

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Policy Voices | Portugal’s turn to the far-right on the year it celebrates 50 years of democracy

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Policy Voices | EU Directive on violence against women was a “missed opportunity”

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Policy Voices | Meet the guardian of the future generations of Wales

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Honouring Alexei Navalny’s legacy: how the EU must react

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Policy Voices | #Throwback: What were we asking when Russia invaded Ukraine?

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The 60th Munich Security Conference: Europe must prepare

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Policy Voices | Former president of Lithuania: “Putin will not ask for permission”

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Should Turkey’s NATO membership be suspended?

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Policy Voices | Thierry Breton on the internal market, European defence

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Call for a paradigm shift in Europe’s approach to Africa

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Policy Voices | A book from Ukraine and a scarf from Gaza: legacies from a childhood at war

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The Awkward Squad: dealing with European disruptors

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Policy Voices | “We know what we’re doing”: UNOPS on delivering life-saving assistance to Gaza

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The world at war: Challenges for EU diplomacy in 2024

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Policy Voices | “For the Taiwanese people there is no Taiwan question”

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Policy Voices | Are we alone in the universe?

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Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Representative vs. participatory democracy

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Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Is civic education the silver bullet?

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Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Solutions to an increasingly polarised world

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Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Lowering the voting age to 16

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Policy Voices | Affordable, reliable and competitive path to net zero: Is it possible?

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Policy Voices | #Democracy Special: Ideal democracy

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The way forward from COP28

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Policy Voices | Argentina's Ambassador on Mercosur, democracy

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Policy Voices | The Netherlands chose the far-right. What happens next?

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Strategic implications and lessons from the war in Gaza

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Frankly Speaking | Time to get serious: How to close the loophole on sanctions

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Policy Voices | Beyond the bare minimum: Fossil fuel phase-down a must at COP28

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How to ensure Ukraine’s long-term success

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Policy Voices | Like Goebbels: Polish propaganda and the demise of democracy

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Way ahead on EU enlargement

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Frankly Speaking | What to do when your country turns against you? You keep fighting

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Policy Voices | ENAR’s Kim Smouter and the paradigm shift needed to address racism in Europe

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Policy Voices | Hitting where it hurts: The power of behavioural taxation

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | A global conversation on the future of AI

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Frankly Speaking | Shifting focus: Israel and Ukraine, can Europe and America do it all?

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Policy Voices | Keeping the human in the loop: How to make a success story of AI in health

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How to ensure free and fair 2024 US presidential elections

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | How populism was defeated in Poland’s national elections

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Frankly Speaking | Many actors, failed diplomacy: Repercussions of Hamas attack on Israel

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The causes and consequences of Hamas’ attack on Israel

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Frankly Speaking | Ukrainian counter-offensive: What is success?

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Inside this week’s UN General Assembly

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | Security and defence in the State of the Union speech

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The Summer break turns into the Summer nightmare

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | The expansion of the BRICS group

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Frankly Speaking | After the war: how to keep Europe safe

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Frankly Speaking | Taiwan’s approach to digital democracy

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Keeping an Eye on the Geopolitical Ball | New U.S. debt-limit bill

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Frankly Speaking | The battle for your brain

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Frankly Speaking | Gender equality in a Renewed Social Contract

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Dark Matter Podcast | Germain Garreau & Kaustubh Hakim on exoplanets and extra-terrestrial life

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Frankly Speaking | European democracy and the social contract

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Dark Matter Podcast | Nivedita Raju on space law

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Dark Matter Podcast | Sahba El-Shawa on space and security

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Frankly Speaking | The meat grinder

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Dark Matter Podcast | Space & Emancipation in Kyrgyzstan

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Frankly Speaking | 8 billion strong

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Dark Matter Podcast | Stephanie Tumampos on Space and Climate

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Frankly Speaking | The depths of insecurity

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Frankly Speaking | The convergence of new technologies endangering human agency

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Frankly Speaking | Watt’s the deal with PPAs and European electricity?

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Frankly Speaking | Womanity in Afghanistan

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Frankly Speaking | China’s on-again, off-again with the 17+1

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Frankly Speaking | The rubble and relief of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake

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Frankly Speaking | Do not normalise the war

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Frankly Speaking | Georgia’s road towards EU and NATO accession

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Frankly Speaking | Is Russia repeating WWI all over again?

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Frankly Speaking | Is the Digital Services Act a match for memes?

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Frankly Speaking | Looking back, looking forward

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Frankly Speaking | Nothing to balk at: the prospects for Western Balkans integration

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Frankly Speaking | United in war, divided in peace

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Frankly Speaking | Nine months in to the Russia-Ukraine War

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Frankly Speaking | Iran: Unchallenged, till now

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Frankly Speaking | ‘Blue Homeland’ and the quest for Turkey’s strategic autonomy

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Frankly Speaking | Why the UK is living with its back to the EU

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Frankly Speaking | The great decoupling: an Indo-Pacific odyssey

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Frankly Speaking | Czeching in on the presidency

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Frankly Speaking | Sanctions, energy and tanks: Ukrainian military parity with Russia

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Frankly Speaking | Europe in 2030: are we ready?

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Frankly Speaking | Putin is counting on cracking Western unity

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Frankly Speaking | The European race to space

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Frankly Speaking | Here to collect on Russia's debt

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Frankly Speaking | Is the Africa-Europe partnership ready for the shocks ahead?

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Frankly Speaking | Are we heading for an energy crisis?

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Frankly Speaking | Turkey ruffles its feathers over food supplies and Finland

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Frankly Speaking | Fighting for the truth in the Western Balkans

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Frankly Speaking | The Pope in Ukraine?

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Frankly Speaking | The battle for Donbas

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Frankly Speaking | Empowering women in a crushing war

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Frankly Speaking | Can we trust what the Russians say?

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Frankly Speaking | Defence, data, and development of Ukraine

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Frankly Speaking | Tilting the balance of power

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Frankly Speaking | Two weeks into the war in Ukraine

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Frankly Speaking | A new type of war: military, cyber, and disinformation

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Frankly Speaking | Crossing the Rubicon: Donetsk and Luhansk

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Frankly Speaking | Invasion: Will he, won't he?

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Frankly Speaking | Can diplomacy avert war?

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Shifting gears: achieving climate neutrality by 2050

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World Energy Outlook 2019

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Session III – Achieving bold EU national E&C plans through inclusiveness and sustainable finance

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Session I – Out with the old, in with the bold: there's an opportunity in the climate crisis

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Session II – Energy justice and the industry competitiveness: a mutually beneficial partnership

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Equal access to care for rare diseases

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Session II: EU Security And Defence In A Wider World

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Session I: European Strategic Autonomy – What, where and how?

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North Macedonia and its quest for Euro-Atlantic Integration

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Sharpening EU Leadership in Plastics Recycling

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LAUNCHING A NEW 'VISION FOR EUROPE'

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Fabrice Pothier on Deep Fake

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WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2018

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THE RIPPLE EFFECT: Water as a tool for peace and sustainable development

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SECURING THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM HISTORY #1 Peace is the mission

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EDUCATING GIRLS - ‘Agenda 2030’ should be ‘Gender 2030’

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PUSHING THE FRONTIERS OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

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Morning Session II

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Morning Session I

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Afternoon Session

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Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION III

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Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION II

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Climate and Energy Summit - SESSION I

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Security Summit 2018 - Session I

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Security Summit 2018 - Session II

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Security Summit 2018 - Conversation with Julian King

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Conversation with Věra Jourová

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Leaving no one behind - The SDG challenge of reaching the last mile

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Session III: Growth, jobs and economic cooperation

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Session II: Exploring Africa’s creative and digital assets

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Session I: Resetting Africa-Europe relations

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LEARNING AND ACTING: Walking the talk on youth engagement

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LISTENING AND TAKING ACTION: What youth really want

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BEYOND CLICHES: Listening and learning from arts and intercultural exchange

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WOMAN POWER: Empowerment through business

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TECH TALK: Skills and education for the digital age

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Conversation with Sherin Khankan

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Building climate resilience

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The Future of Mobility: Hydrogen and Electric

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Terror and the City

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Women, Peace and Security

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Session I: ASEAN, Europe and a Volatile World

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Session II: Will EU-ASEAN Relations Still Matter in Forty Years?

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Modern security is more than military spending - Towards a single security budget?

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Urban responses to refugees

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Europe, Japan and Africa: Facing up together to Africa’s infrastructure challenges

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Coping with antimicrobial resistance

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Balkans Summit 2017: Think local, act regional

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Balkans Summit 2017: Business outlook perks up but reforms must continue

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Balkans Summit 2017: Peace, democracy and reconciliation

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Security Summit 2017: Looking inwards

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Security Summit 2017: Looking southwards

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Security Summit 2017: Looking eastwards

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Innovations in housing finance

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Housing, social inclusion and economic mobility

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Understanding China's "soft power" and influence

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World Energy Outlook 2017

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Making the digital revolution work better, faster for development

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Climate and Energy Summit 2017: Climate cooperation stepping up a gear

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Climate and Energy Summit 2017: Making way for the big green bang

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Climate and Energy Summit 2017: What price for a greener future?

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Cecilia Malmström: untapped potential in EU-China trade relations

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Ambassador Yang Yanyi: EU-China relations are now more important than ever

242

The future of road freight transport

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Transatlantic cooperation and Europe's Southern neighborhood

244

Jamie Shea on the future role and challenges of NATO

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Teri Schultz: citizens are looking for more security

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EU-China Forum: shaping a new world order

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EU-China Forum: the Belt and Road initiative

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Access, care and diagnosis for rare diseases

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Innovation in the energy transition

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Hiroshi Hiraoka on the opportunities of African agriculture

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Leymah Gbowee: what struggles for the civil society in Liberia?

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Caroline Kawira: how to encourage the young to stay in the rural areas?

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Economic inequalities within ASEAN countries - Chem Srey Oeun

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Delia Domingo - Albert on the history of ASEAN

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The EU 'Trade for All' strategy - Helena König

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Pierre Amhilat: can the EU still matter to ASEAN?

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Africa Summit - Investing in Africa's future

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Africa Summit - Reconciling urban and rural

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Conversation with HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan

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Boosting EU-ASEAN economic ties

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ASEAN at fifty - Globalisation's winners and losers

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ASEAN at fifty – Living in a challenging world

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Financing healthcare

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Clean energy investments falling - Anders Marvik

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Low carbon infrastructure beyond banks' balance sheets - Ingrid Holmes

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Finance industry must catch up with technology - Mark Lewis

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Investors have an appetite for infrastructure - Michael Wilkins

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How policy makers can support private sector initiatives - Ugo Bassi

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France and the future of European defence

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Financing a low-carbon economy

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Jacques Bughin on global migration flows

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Figures on migration in the EU - Belinda Pyke

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How Amsterdam integrates refugees - Kajsa Ollongren

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Refugees bring in talents - Paul Mbikayi

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Yara Al-Adib on integrating women refugees

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Education as an instrument of inclusion - Jürgen Siebel

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Perspectives on upcoming Brexit talks - Mogens Peter Carl

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Migration and Integration: a cost-benefit analysis

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Benedek Jávor: the EU has a huge responsibility on deforestation

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Brendan McNamara: sustainable financing at HSBC

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Danielle Morley: sustainable palm oil is possible

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Nazir Foead: Indonesia can be a new leader in peatland conservation

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Sebastien Risso calling for a deforestation-free EU

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Giles Merritt on the future of the EU budget after Brexit

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Scenarios for the UK being out of the EU Single Market - Giles Merritt

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Brexit negotiations on trade in services - Mogens Peter Carl

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Deforestation – a sustainable dilemma

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We must keep working for women's empowerment - Daniel Seymour

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Women are not only victims - Monique Pariat

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Oula Ramadan on women's importance in Syrian civil society

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Japan, China and South Korea – trilateral cooperation in the Trump era

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Women and the new humanitarian agenda

293

Kirsty Hughes on Scotland's EU membership after Brexit

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Shaping the world: a pivotal moment in research and innovation for global health

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Carlos Moedas: investing in health will help the EU reconnect to the people

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Bill Gates: only through R&D will we beat neglected diseases

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Youth employment in ACP countries - Viwanou Gnassounou

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Creating markets in fragile states - Nena Stoiljkovic

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Unlocking private sector investment in fragile states

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Conversation with Johannes Hahn

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BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION III

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BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION II

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BALKANS – Boosting connections on the road to the EU – SESSION I

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Kirsty Hughes on BBC Scotland - 30 Nov 2016

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Conversation on Europe’s Digital Single Market with Andrus Ansip

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World Energy Outlook – energy mix for the post-COP21 world