Global Europe Unpacked
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGlobal Europe Unpacked is a podcast by commonspace.eu that looks at global challenges facing the European continent, and explores the growing ambition for the EU to become a geopolitical power.
From The Hague, Will Murray speaks to experts and decision makers about European foreign policy and international relations.
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Giving EU citizens a voice on foreign policy – with Dr Dennis Sammut
April 01, 2022 05:20 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn series two of Global Europe Unpacked, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. Since September 2021, the action-oriented think tank LINKS Europe and The Hague Municipality, with the support of The Hague Humanity Hub, have hosted a series of 10 citizen-dialogue events on various...
After Ukraine, can we still talk about soft power? - with Prof Jamie Shea
March 15, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBContribute your ideas to the Conference on the Future of Europe here! In series two of Global Europe Unpacked, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. Our objective is to spark your interest in some of the important issues under discussion and encourage you to get involved. Since...
How should the EU respond to aspiring new members? – with HE Ambassador David Solomonia and Prof Antoaneta Dimitrova
March 02, 2022 06:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBContribute your ideas to the Conference on the Future of Europe here! In series two of Global Europe Unpacked, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. Our objective is to spark your interest in some of the important issues under discussion and encourage you to get involved. The t...
Supporting the rule of law in Ukraine – with Dr Valentyn Gvozdiy and Brian Mefford
December 29, 2021 12:50 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBJoin the conversation! You can access the Conference on the Future of Europe’s digital platform to share your ideas, find events, and to read ideas and event reports, here: www.futureu.europa.eu/ - In series two of Global Europe Unpacked, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. O...
The Conference on the Future of Europe: let your voice be heard – with Didier Herbert and Saskia Bruines
December 18, 2021 11:30 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBYou can access the Conference on the Future of Europe’s digital platform to see share your ideas, find events, and to read ideas and event reports, here: futureu.europa.eu/ - Global Europe Unpacked is back! In series two, commonspace.eu is collaborating with the City of The Hague to bring you several conversations looking at the future of Europe in the world. This series runs alongside the EU’s largest citizen consultation to date, the Conference on the Future of Europe. Our objective is t...
Is multilateralism in crisis? – with Stephanie Liechtenstein
February 18, 2021 06:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThe new buzz word in international diplomacy is multilateralism, or to put it simply, countries working together towards a common goal. This is a concept nowhere embraced so firmly as in the Brussels corridors of power, where EU leaders speak of it with the fervour of a religious belief. But does multilateralism really work? Or does the old diplomatic maxim that “countries do not have friends, just interests” better reflect the reality of how international relations are conducted. In man...
Is EU ‘strategic autonomy’ compatible with NATO? – with Dr Jamie Shea
February 11, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBFor more than seven decades the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has been the most potent security organisation on the European continent, an embodiment of the transatlantic relationship, and a bulwark against any threat to states that form part of it. NATO is based on the principle that an attack against one or several of its members is considered as an attack against all. This is the principle of collective defence, which is enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty signed i...
How should the EU manage relations with its eastern neighbours? – with Viola von Cramon MEP
February 04, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBIn 2009, acknowledging the differences between the states in its eastern and southern neighbourhoods, the European Union sought to upgrade its neighbourhood policy to the east by ‘accelerating political association and deepening economic integration’ with six post-Soviet partners – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The ‘Eastern Partnership’ initiative was intended to provide an institutionalised forum for discussion on visa agreements, free-trade deals, and strate...
How does Brexit affect Europe's global ambitions? – with Dr Fabian Zuleeg
January 28, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBOn the 31st of December 2020, after years of negotiations, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. As the protagonist of this story, there has been much speculation over its fate, but what about the bloc that it has left? As the EU pursues more global ambitions, what effects will the departure of one of its largest economies, and most diplomatically experienced members, have on its ability to do so? Some in Europe hold a rather optimistic view – that whilst the bloc will expe...
What does President Biden mean for the EU-US relationship? – with Dr Dan S. Hamilton
January 20, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBAfter four years of President Donald Trump, the United States of America appears considerably removed from Europe. In Brussels and in many European capitals, Trump’s legacy is characterised by an American rejection of longstanding multilateral commitments and institutions, and an “America first” policy, which in practice often meant frequent unfriendly moves against long-standing European allies. Trump’s presidency has been described as a wakeup call – a cautionary example that Europe cann...
What's going on with the OSCE? – with Dr Walter Kemp
December 17, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBIn 1975 through the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 35 countries from across the northern hemisphere signed the Helsinki Final Act in an attempt to improve the détente between the Soviet bloc and the West. The Final Act acknowledged not only traditional aspects of state security, such as the inviolability of national frontiers and respect for territorial integrity, but also – for the first time for many of the signatories – that the treatment of citizens within a country’s ...
What's happening with the Conference on the Future of Europe? – with Robert Micallef
December 10, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBAt the end of 2019, the European Parliament and European Commission put forward a proposal for a 'Conference on the Future of Europe'. In it, they envisaged a discussion that would bring together the three legislative institutions of the European Union – the Parliament, the Commission and the Council – for a broad consultation process with the participation of the EU member-states, experts and civil society (including academia, think tanks, professional unions and organisations) and citizens...
How can Europe tackle disinformation? – with Bart Groothuis MEP
December 03, 2020 06:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBDisinformation is the deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information to deceive or influence the opinions of others. Over the last decade, we have seen it evolve alongside the digitisation of the information environment to become a central pillar of hybrid warfare; threatening to undermine the cohesion of our societies and the integrity of our democracies. In recent years, the West has been playing catch-up on disinformation, while its adversaries benefit from the low-cost, lo...
How to deal with China? – with Ardi Bouwers
November 26, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBFor decades, the European Union and China have eyed each other from a distance. Both economic giants in their own right, they saw huge benefit in co-operating with each other, blending their different economic strengths in what appeared to be a win-win situation. More recently, however, China has been acting in increasingly threatening ways; and it is becoming ever clearer that the EU needs a coherent strategy for relations with Beijing. In the words of the EU High Representative, Josep Bo...
Can Europe become a global power? – with Malik Azmani MEP
November 19, 2020 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBGlobal Europe is a term often used to describe a geopolitically assertive European Union, representing the collective interests and values of its member-states with a single voice and strategy. It is an idea that is getting increasing traction among the foreign policy community and decision-makers in both Brussels and the European capitals. For most European citizens, however, it remains an abstract concept of no immediate relevance to their daily realities. In this episode, Will Murray sh...
Coming soon... Global Europe Unpacked
November 16, 2020 15:16 - 55 seconds - 861 KBA trailer for Global Europe Unpacked – a new podcast by commonspace.eu, premiering on Thursday 19 November 2020. The series will look at European foreign policy and the growing ambition for the EU to become a global or geopolitical power.