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Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on American democracy

Jan 30 2025 29 mins  
In just his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed a number of executive orders that threaten American democracy and are already being challenged in the courts. With the system of checks and balances in question and a Democratic Party still trying to get back on its feet, in what state is American democracy left? On what is perhaps the most difficult episode of the se

Policy Voices | Trump 2.0: How to not lose hope on Peace, Security, and Defence

Jan 23 2025 31 mins  
With Trump back in power it is all too easy to lose hope. As the guest in today’s episode of Policy Voices says, the next few years are going to be “a wild ride”. Nonetheless, there may be some silver linings when it comes to peace, security and defence. For example, as Rose Gottemoeller puts it: NATO countries are in a much better place than they were in 2016 when Trump firs

Policy Voices | NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and the future of the alliance

Dec 12 2024 27 mins  
In June, Admiral Pierre Vandier became NATO’s new Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. A few days ago, Admiral Vandier came to Friends of Europe for a conversation with our senior fellow Jamie Shea, who is also the former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO. In this conversation, Jamie asks the Admiral about the role of Supreme Allied

Policy Voices | A “watershed” moment: Is CERN for AI the solution to Europe’s most pressing problems?

Dec 05 2024 27 mins  
It has the potential to revolutionise Europe’s AI future but in the midst of all the political drama from the past weeks, you probably didn’t hear about it. Announced in Von der Leyen’s political guidelines for the next Commission, officially it’s called the European AI Research Council, but the Commission President referred to it as the CERN for AI. CERN, of course, being

Policy Voices | From pledges to promises: can developed nations trust they’ll ever see the money from COP?

Nov 28 2024 22 mins  
It wouldn’t have been COP if the negotiations had been completed by last Friday – the last scheduled day of the conference. It was a long and drawn out process that only ended when many negotiators were already with their suitcases packed and ready to fly out of Azerbaijan. The petrostate was the stage for the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference and expectations wer

Policy Voices | The horse trading that delivered Europe its new Commission

Nov 21 2024 27 mins  
In this episode of Policy Voices, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris, Founder of The Good Lobby, Trustee of Friends of Europe and 2014 European Young Leader (EYL40), about the “horse trading” that delivered Europe its new Commission. This conversation was recorded before the Parliament finally confirmed the last se

Policy Voices | Reactions from Europe: Trump is in, time for the EU to step up

Nov 13 2024 12 mins  
Final results are in and are devastating for US Democrats. Republicans not only won the White House but they also regained control of the Senate and held on to the House achieving the government trifecta. In the end, Donald Trump won the election by only 2 percentage points but looking at the electoral map it certainly doesn’t look like that. The US map has been swept by a red wa

Policy Voices | A glaciologist and a greentech entrepreneur on a mission to fight climate change

Nov 07 2024 31 mins  
With COP29 starting in just a few days, world leaders are heading to Azerbaijan with images of Spanish towns wiped out by water and cars piled up on streets that hide the true devastation of one of the worst floods in Europe of this century. In this episode of Policy Voices released ahead of COP29, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with two European Young Leaders (EYL40) from this y

Policy Voices | Rutte’s first month as NATO’s Secretary-General

Oct 31 2024 23 mins  
Mark Rutte has officially survived his first month in office. To take stock of what Rutte has been up to since his new job started, host Catarina Vila Nova sat down with Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO. They go over Rutte’s pivot to the Asia Pacif

Policy Voices | Fact-checking in the era of misinformation

Oct 24 2024 25 mins  
Fact-checkers in the United States have been under harsh scrutiny during the US Presidential election regardless of what they choose to do. To fact-check or not to fact-check seems to be the question but for Angie Drobnic Holan, Director of the International Fact-Checking Network, journalists should never compromise on their commitment to the truth nor should they negotiate away th