

Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
ECFR
Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 17, 2015 • 7min
Voices on Ukraine, voices of Ukraine part 6 with Yehven Fedchenko
ECFR's Policy Fellow and Associate Director of the Madrid office, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, interviews Yehven Fedchenko, the director of the Mohyla School of Journalism in Kiev, about his website StopFake.org, whose purpose is to fact-check Russian propaganda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 15, 2015 • 43min
ECFR's World in 30 Minutes: Germany and US
Mark Leonard talks to Jeremy Shapiro and Nicu Popescu about changing transatlantic relations. How serious are the tensions between Germany and the US after the recent spying scandal? And can the EU and the US still co-operate on issues in Ukraine and the Middle East? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 15, 2015 • 40min
ECFR's World in 30 Minutes: EU elections
Mark Leonard talks to Jose Ignacio Torreblanca and Daniel Levy about the European elections, euroscepticism, and the Middle East peace process after Kerry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 15, 2015 • 34min
ECFR's World in 30 Minutes: Iraq
ECFR's director Mark Leonard discusses the latest developments in Iraq with Myriam Benraad, Vessela Tcherneva and Julien Barnes-Dacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 14, 2015 • 40min
ECFR's World In 30 Minutes: Ukraine and Belarus
With an EU-Ukraine summit coming up this month, in this episode of World in 30 Minutes Mark Leonard, Director of ECFR, speaks to Kadri Liik and Vessela Tcherneva from ECFR's Wider Europe Programme, and Carl Bildt, co-chair and former Foreign Minister of Sweden. They discuss their recent study trip to Kiev and Minsk were they met with the Ukrainian president Poroshenko, Maidan activists, think-tanks and ministers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 9, 2015 • 5min
Mapping Libya's factions
Journalist, analyst and author of our web publication 'Mapping Libya's factions', Mary Fitzgerald, explains the political factions and armed groups involved in the fighting in Libya, and gives us insight into what lies behind the conflicts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 7, 2015 • 6min
Voices on Ukraine, voices of Ukraine part 5 with Hanna Hopko
ECFR's Policy Fellow and Associate Director of the Madrid office, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, and Hanna Hopko, former Maidan activist and now member of the Verkhovna Rada and head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, discuss the reform challenges in post-Maidan Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 2015 • 12min
Libya: What went wrong since 2011?
ECFR Policy Fellow, Mattia Toaldo, speaks to journalist and analyst Mary Fitzgerald, and Libyan politician Guma El-Gamaty about the lessons that have been learned in 2011 and whether international intervention in Libya would be a good idea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 30, 2015 • 10min
The uncertain future of Yemen
ECFR Senior Policy Fellow, Julien Barnes-Dacey, and Visiting Fellow, Adam Baron, discuss the recent developments in Yemen and take a look at where the situation is headed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 30, 2015 • 17min
Geo-economics: Seven Challenges to Globalization
ECFR Director and co-author of the publication 'Geo-economics: Seven Challenges to Globalization', Mark Leonard, gives his thoughts on what states can do to prevent geopolitics from unravelling the globalization of the world economy and its systems of governance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.