Talking Europe(um) – podcast about Europe and the EU

December 31, 2021

Talking Europe(um) is a podcast which comments on current issues in the European Union. List of episodes, as well as information about where you can listen to the podcast, is in the article.

List of episodes [language of the episode]

Episode 1: Opening of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania [CZ]

• Published: 30 March 2020
• Guest: Jana Juzová, Research Fellow focused on democratization and European integration of the Western Balkan countries, and EU enlargement

Episode 2: European Union's reaction to coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 [CZ]

• Published: 13 April 2020
• Guest: Zuzana Stuchlíková, Head of Brussels Office of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 3: European Union budget negotiations [CZ]

• Published: 29 April 2020
• Guest: Vít Havelka, Research Fellow, who focuses on institutional relations of the EU and its member states, the EU budget, Europeanisation, and the transformative power of the EU

Episode 4: European Green Deal [CZ]

• Published: 11 May 2020
• Guest: Kateřina Davidová, Research Fellow, her research focuses on issues related to climate change and energy

Episode 5: The first steps of the new Slovak government [CZ]

• Published: 27 May 2020
• Guest: Vladimír Bartovic, Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 6: What are the possibilities for study stays and internships? [CZ]

• Published: 26 June 2020
• Guest: Martin Vokálek, Deputy Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 7: A tale of two elections: US elections in review [English]

• Published: 8 September 2020
• Guest: Danielle Piatkiewicz, Research Fellow focusing on issues around Transatlantic and Central and Eastern European security, NATO and Eastern Partnership

The Democratic and Republican National Conventions have just wrapped up and so far have painted two stark and very different pictures of America. One has encompassed diversity, plurality, and normalcy, the other one focused on divisive issues and painted a distorted and polarized reality.

Our Deputy Director Christian Kvorning Lassen and Research Fellow and resident American, Danielle Piatkiewicz, discussed the differences between the two with regards to key foreign policy and domestic issues, while also having a free-wheeling more philosophical discussion about the state of the US and what the future might hold.

Episode 8: Dance with the bear: Will Putin maintain his "friend" Lukashenko in power? [CZ]

• Published: 22 September 2020
• Guest: Pavel Havlíček, Researcher at AMO 

Episode 9: Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia: Has the West found common ground? [CZ]

• Published: October 8
• Guests: Jana Juzová, Researcher at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, together with Janina Hřebíčková, Special Representative for the Western Balkans from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Episode 10: Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean: How to resume EU-Turkey dialogue? [CZ]

• Published: October 28
• Guest: Jana Juzová, Researcher at EUROPEUM Institute of European Policy

Episode 11: The New Sheriff at the White House: What to Expect from Joe Biden? [CZ]

• Published: November 10
• Guest: Jiří Pehe, Director of the University of New York in Prague and political commentator

Episode 12: What to expect in 2021? [CZ]

• Published: December 31
• Guests: Vladimír Bartovic, Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, and Jana Juzová, Vít Havelka, and Kateřina Davidová, researchers at EUROPEUM

Episode 13: Conference on the Future of Europe [CZ]

• Published: February 1
• Guests: Zuzana Stuchlíková, Associate research fellow of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 14: Economy vs. Security: What is the future of the EU and China's relationship? [CZ]

• Published: February 15
• Guests: Alexandr Lagazzi, Associate research fellow of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 15: EU-Russia relations under strain: Geopolitics, Navalnyj and the upcoming elections [CZ]

• Published: March 1
• Guests: Pavel Havlíček, Researcher at AMO 

Episode 16: How does the Czech Republic intend to use money from the European fund for post-pandemic recovery? [CZ]

• Published: March 15
• Guests: Vít Havelka, Research fellow at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Episode 17: Side effect of the Russian vaccine: the fall of the Slovak government? [CZ/SK]

 

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