World in 30 minutes

Written by: Mark Leonard
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  • ECFR’s weekly podcast series World in 30 minutes (https://www.ecfr.eu/podcasts/world_30_mins) is curated by Director Mark Leonard and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. Awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019, the series boasts some 250 episodes since 2015 and has attracted thousands of subscribers, with an average of 3,000 weekly listeners. A podcast member of EuroPod: https://www.bullemedia.eu/europod

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  • Stranger in Moscow: Borrell’s unwelcome visit

    Stranger in Moscow: Borrell’s unwelcome visit
    Feb 15 2021

    This month, High Representative Josep Borrell visited Moscow to discuss key issues of concern and test the waters for building a more “constructive dialogue” between Russia and the European Union. His visit came at a time of elevated tensions, as calls for sanctions against the Russian Federation are increasing and both sides debate over the recent poisoning and imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, as well as issues concerning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. What lessons can be drawn from Borrell’s controversial visit? Why do attempts to reset relations with Russia fail? In this week’s episode, Mark Leonard is joined by Kadri Liik, senior policy fellow at ECFR and Russian domestic and foreign policy expert, Nicu Popescu, Director of ECFR´s Wider Europe programme, and José Ignacio Torreblanca, head of ECFR's Madrid office to discuss Europe’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia.

    This podcast was recorded on 10 February 2021.

    Further reading:
    - “Why attempts to reset relations with Russia fail” by Nicu Popescu: buff.ly/3rnwG7P
    - “The Putin paradox: Five things Navalny’s arrest says about Russia” by Kadri Liik: buff.ly/3rcfJgh


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    32 mins
  • The global impact of the European Green Deal

    The global impact of the European Green Deal
    Feb 8 2021

    What are the key aspects of how the European Green Deal will change the world? Introduced by the new European Commission in 2019, the Green Deal’s goal is to decouple economic growth from resource use and to create an EU economy with zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. To reach that goal a fundamental overhaul of the European economy is needed. But this transformation will also have a dramatic effect on external economic relations and on foreign policy. This week host Mark Leonard invited ECFR Council Member and Member of the German Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens Franziska Brantner as well as Jean Pisani Ferry and Simone Tagliapietra from the Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel to discuss the geopolitical repercussions of the European Green Deal.

    This podcast was recorded on 4 February 2021.

    Further reading:
    “The geopolitics of the European Green Deal” by Mark Leonard, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Jeremy Shapiro, Simone Tagliapietra, and Guntram Wolff: buff.ly/3cJHAjW


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    29 mins
  • The future of EU-China-US relations

    The future of EU-China-US relations
    Feb 1 2021
    One of the foreign policy priorities of US president Joe Biden is to work with allies on China. His administration reached out to the European Union ahead of his inauguration to make US intentions clear. However, so far, they have only been met with disappointment over the alacrity with which European leaders pushed forward the agenda of the comprehensive agreement on investment before Biden was even sworn in as president. What are the prospects for transatlantic cooperation on China now that a new US administration is in power? Has it ended before it has begun, or will we see a new Western approach to dealing with China’s rising power? This week, our host Mark Leonard is joined by Janka Oertel, head of ECFR’s Asia programme and Andrew Small, senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia programme at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and associate senior policy fellow at ECFR, to discuss the future of EU-China-US relations.

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    33 mins

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