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#askfuturEU - another futurEU Podcast

Ask futurEU is a podcast where your doubts on EU are addressed!

After hearing from different students the most creative and thought provoking questions, we talk to experts about them. Our episodes leave food for thought and go beyond news' headlines. The focus is what happens now and the consequences to the future.

If you are seeking a reliable source to improve your understanding about EU, you came to the right place!

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Episode 1

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This appointment comes in a very particular context, given that by the end of its term France will have held both its presidential and legislative elections. This highly political semester is the occasion to review the organisation and tasks of the Council of the European Union as well as the mission of the country presiding it.

Want another reason to listen in? Finally understand the difference between the Council of Europe, the European Council and the Council of the European Union!

Guest: Dr. Yann Wernert, Policy fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre and co-organiser of the Franco-German Dialogue

Host & Editor: Tanguy Balcon

 

Episode 2

Nowadays, getting back control of a market that has for a long time been out of the EU’s hands - namely, the data and the technological market in general - is now a core priority of the Union.Both a defensive and offensive strategy are needed, with the aim to defend the user’s privacy and data from external power’s interference on one hand, and the will to set a general, European standard, on the other. Several steps were made during the recent years, especially by initiative of the European Commission, but the path to reach a proper European Digitial Sovreignty is still long and full of obstacles.
Here with professor Joanna Bryson we discuss about the challenges and the future of the concept of European Digital Sovereignty.

Guest: Prof. Joanna Bryson, PhD - Hertie School

Host & Editor: Beatrice De Mare

 

Episode 3

In today's episode, with our guest, Dr. Christian Freudlsperger, we discuss the direction towards which the European Union integration is headed, by analyzing the patterns and the dynamics of the unprecedented recent crises the EU had to face.

Those crisis highlighted the limits and defects, but sometimes have been the only opportunity to act in a compact way and to advance important reforms that have, paradoxically, led to further strengthening of the EU authority. Since 2008 the EU governance has been in permanent crisis mode, and this dynamic had only led the member states to a further integration. How and why?

Guest: Dr. Christian Freudlsperger, Postdoctoral researcher in the European Politics Research Group, as part of the ERC-​funded project “Bordering Europe: Boundary Formation in European Integration” (EUROBORD).

Host & Editor: Beatrice De Mare

 

Episode 4

Since 16 March, Russia is no longer a member of the Council of Europe. But actually, what is the Council of Europe? What are its missions, its members, its history? In today's episode, we take a look at how the Council of Europe works, and in particular at its most famous and atypical body: the European Court of Human Rights. We also discuss the implications and symbolism of Russia's departure from this organisation.

Guest: Francesco Cheribuni - Lecturer of EU Law at the Department of Political Science, Luiss “Guido Carli”.

Host & Editor: Tanguy Balcon