Latest Openeudebate Podcast Episodes

COVID19 and the broken taboo of European values

Europe after coronavirus - June 24, 2020 16:10 - 55 minutes
The increasing references to European values in politicised debates about Europe has been a novelty during the past decade, that has now been normalised. However, what does this say about the future of Europe? Do Europeans have a common understanding of what European values mean in prac...

Social and fiscal policies for a fair green transition

Europe after coronavirus - June 17, 2020 12:41 - 44 minutes
The loss of income that millions of Europeans are or will experience as a result of the pandemic has attracted interest to income guarantee schemes. For instance, Spain just adopted a minimal income scheme.   However, differences among member states prevail as to their ability to finan...

Disinformation in Europe After COVID-19

Europe after coronavirus - June 10, 2020 10:57 - 45 minutes
The COVID-19 health crisis has been followed by an infodemic, in which disinformation related to the virus has spread across the world. Even though disinformation is not a new phenomenon, its volume has skyrocketed in recent years.   This episode discusses first how can we explain that...

A new EU agenda on migration after COVID-19?

Europe after coronavirus - June 03, 2020 13:49 - 55 minutes
COVID-19 has the potential of changing the way in which European governments and societies regard migrants, as evidenced by the initiatives adopted by some Member States on regularizing migrants’ work status and granting them access to healthcare. However, the economic impact of the pan...

The EU and the geopolitics of COVID19

Europe after coronavirus - May 27, 2020 11:49 - 49 minutes
The EU High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy said “the EU has to learn to use the language of power” before the pandemic. It is unclear what the impact of the COVID19 will be on this ambition. If the lockdown recession relaunches the USA-China trade war the EU is l...

Why are we doing this podcast?

Europe after coronavirus - May 23, 2020 08:32 - 5 minutes
EU institutions have been trying to engage citizens in a debate on the future of Europe since Brexit. As 2020 began, EU institutions agreed to start negotiating future scenarios in May. However, the impact of the COVID19 has sent the discussion on the future of Europe entirely into the ...

COVID19: a chance to close East-West gaps?

Europe after coronavirus - May 20, 2020 12:46 - 48 minutes
Just as North-South oppositions structured the eurozone debate, most analysts expect the pandemic to deepen economic, social and political divides between Eastern and Western Europe: recovery strategies may diverge inside and outside the Eurozone, and the states of emergency and “rally ...

Political conflict and populism in Europe after COVID-19

Europe after coronavirus - May 13, 2020 11:04 - 51 minutes
The health, economic and political earthquake caused by the COVID-19 crisis has had repercussions on many levels, including the lines of conflict. To what extent the COVID-19 crisis will upset the established lines of conflict in the EU? Will the crisis lead to a new value-change that r...

What will happen to unemployment benefits in the EU?

Europe after coronavirus - May 06, 2020 07:49 - 40 minutes
The immediate economic effect of COVID19 is a sharp increase in unemployment rates. As a result payments for the unemployed will become a significant part of EU member states budgets. This implies risks that despite the similar impact of the pandemic not all member states will be able t...

The COVID19 economic crisis and the Eurozone

Europe after coronavirus - April 29, 2020 17:15 - 43 minutes
Since policymakers realised about the size of the crisis, the debate between Member States has focused on the euro-area level fiscal response, with a reflection in national debates a way we haven’t seen since the Greek crisis: is it time for debt mutualisation, an additional step of fis...

Was the Eurozone prepared for this crisis? *Preview*

Europe after coronavirus - April 29, 2020 07:23 - 1 minute
Preview of the second episode. Europe after coronavirus, A series of ten podcasts by the Jean Monnet OpenEUdebate network.  An OpenEUdebate podcast produced by Agenda Pública. Stay tuned to find out more on these scenarios and visit openeudebate.eu or connect on Twitter or Facebook to...

The future of Europe post-Coronavirus

Europe after coronavirus - April 22, 2020 18:00 - 45 minutes
European integration has progressed with every crisis, and yet each one raises concerns about disintegration. The coronavirus is no different: it may contribute to new EU competences in health coordination and social protection but also to the raise of anti-European forces.  What has m...

Europe after coronavirus

Europe after coronavirus - April 15, 2020 21:54 - 2 minutes
A series of ten podcasts by the Jean Monnet OpenEUdebate network. Each podcast features debates among experts from academia, civil society and politics on the effect of the pandemic on different scenarios for the future of the European Union.  OpenEUdebate is Jean Monnet network co-fin...