Europe Speaks: A TEPSA Podcast

What are Russia and China trying to achieve in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood? And how does that affect candidate countries’ path to EU membership? This episode of InvigoratEU Talks explores the impact of Russia and China’s political, economic, and social influence on the European continent.

InvigoratEU Talks is a podcast series born from the Horizon Europe-funded project, InvigoratEU, bringing together leading scholars and policy-makers from across Europe to do exactly what the name suggests: re-invigorate EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy in a changing world.

Host: Mariam Khotenashvili, Executive Director, TEPSA

Guests:

Thijs Reuten, Member of the European Parliament, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 

Marko Todorović, Senior Researcher, European Policy Centre (CEP) Belgrade 

Matteo Bonomi, Head of Europe Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Music: Luka Margiani

Editing: Barbara Vanotti

This episode is funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe-funded InvigoratEU project.

Democracy support has been a cornerstone of EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy. Yet, today it is increasingly intertwined with geopolitical competition. In this third episode of InvigoratEU Talks, we ask: has the EU become better at promoting democracy, or has geopolitics changed the rules of the game? 

InvigoratEU Talks is a podcast series born from the Horizon Europe-funded project, InvigoratEU, bringing together leading scholars and policy-makers from across Europe to do exactly what the name suggests: re-invigorate EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy in a changing world.

Host: Mariam Khotenashvili, Executive Director, TEPSA

Guests:

Petar Markovic, Ambassador of Montenegro to the EU

Giselle Bosse, Professor, Maastricht University and TEPSA Board Member 

Richard Youngs, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe and TEPSA Board Member

Music: Luka Margiani

Editing: Barbara Vanotti

This episode is funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe-funded InvigoratEU project.

This episode of EuropeChats is a discussion between Bobby McDonagh, former Irish diplomat, and TEPSA Secretary-General Jim Cloos. The discussion focuses on how to communicate and explain the European Union, specifically using Bobby McDonagh’s latest publication, "The European Union in 12 Objects", in which each object represents an aspect of the EU or one of its institutions. 

Bobby McDonagh is a former Irish diplomat, he has been an Ambassador to Italy and the UK, as well as the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the EU.

EuropeChats is the flagship podcast of TEPSA and it is part of the TEPSA Podcast Channel “Europe Speaks”

Music: Worakls, 22 September 2014, Salzburg, Hungry music

This video is co-funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Union

Co-Funded by the European Union.

In the second episode of InvigoratEU Talks, we explore the links between the EU's security and defence policies and the enlargement process. Has enlargement effectively become part of Europe's security strategy? And do policy-makers and European citizens fully appreciate what is at stake?

InvigoratEU Talks is a podcast series born from the Horizon Europe-funded project, InvigoratEU, bringing together leading scholars and policy-makers from across Europe to do exactly what the name suggests: re-invigorate EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy in a changing world.

Host: Mariam Khotenashvili, Executive Director, TEPSA

Guests:

Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe

Tyyne Karjalainen, Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) 

Music: Luka Margiani

Editing: Barbara Vanotti

This episode is funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe-funded InvigoratEU project.

This episode of EuropeChats is a discussion between Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor at ETH Zurich, Tyyne Karjalainen, Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and TEPSA Executive Director, Mariam Khotenashvili. The discussion explores Ukraine’s path to EU accession in light of the recent proposal by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for an associate form of EU membership for Ukraine.

Frank Schimmelfennig and Tyyne Karjalainen are researchers in the InvigoratEU project funded by Horizon Europe. Frank is a Professor at ETH Zurich and a leading scholar on EU enlargement. He recently took part in the first episode of TEPSA’s InvigoratEU Talks, a new podcast miniseries on re-invigorating the EU enlargement process. Tyyne is a Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where she focuses on European security, defence cooperation, and the EU’s role in Ukraine.

EuropeChats is the flagship podcast of TEPSA and it is part of the TEPSA Podcast Channel “Europe Speaks”

Music: Worakls, 22 September 2014, Salzburg, Hungry music

This video is co-funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Union

Co-Funded by the European Union.