In this episode of the podcast, we have a discussion with author and political thinker Professor Ulrike Guérot (https://www.ulrike-guerot.eu/) , who also is the head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy (https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.donau-uni.ac.at%2Fen%2Funiversity%2Ffaculties%2Fbusiness-globalization%2Fdepartments%2Feuropean-policy-study-of-democracy.html) at the Danube University Krems. We talked about Europe as a Republic (5:14) as argued both in the ‘Manifesto for a European Republic’ that she co-signed and her book ‘Why Europe Must Become a Republic! A Political Utopia’. She also expanded on what true European citizenship would look like (10:14), the challenges ahead for European institutions (23:06), Brexit and its impact on the EU (26:56), her work with the European Democracy Lab (https://europeandemocracylab.org/en/) and beyond (30:44), and more.

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