In this week's CER podcast, our experts answered the questions you wrote in with, asking about all things European policy. Our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi spoke to senior research fellows Luigi Scazzieri and Elisabetta Cornago, and our director Charles Grant. They discussed European strategic autonomy and the UK's stance on it, the EU's taxonomy for sustainable investments, the French presidential election and the UK's new Brexit minister.

In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, our Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow Megan Ferrando speaks to eight of our researchers. They reflect on the EU's past year from different perspectives, including climate action; the transatlantic relationship; Germany's new government; and the increasing French influence in European circles.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

In this week's CER podcast, our director Charles Grant speaks to senior research fellow Camino Mortera-Martinez and Katia Glod of the Centre for European Policy Analysis, to discuss the latest developments in Belarus and on its border with Poland. Belarus’ President Lukashenka is still encouraging migrants from the Middle East to head for that border, where Poland is trying to repel them. The podcast discusses Lukashenka’s motivations, the legality of Poland’s response and what the EU should be doing to resolve the problem.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

This week’s CER podcast is the second episode in our ‘Ask CER’ series, where our researchers answer questions that our listeners have asked. Our media co-ordinator and host Rosie Giorgi speaks to foreign policy director Ian Bond, research fellow Elisabetta Cornago and deputy director John Springford. They consider the EU’s climate action policies; where its recovery fund has been a success and where it has fallen short; and transatlantic relations under Biden and in the context of Nord Stream 2.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

In this week's CER podcast, our director Charles Grant speaks to senior research fellow Sam Lowe about the state of UK-EU relations. They discuss the ongoing issue of the Northern Ireland Protocol, and consider some of the other major stumbling blocks in the relationship: financial services, data regulation and the EU's proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, our chief economist Christian Odendahl is joined by CER’s director of foreign policy, Ian Bond, and research fellows Elisabetta Cornago and Zach Meyers. They consider Europe’s current gas crisis from three distinct yet interlinked angles: the role of climate change, the European gas market and its regulation, and the geopolitical impact of energy shortages and price increases.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

For our new ‘Ask CER’ podcast, we asked listeners to write in with whatever they wanted to know about the EU, Britain and the world, so that our experts could do their best to answer. In the first episode of the series, CER media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi is joined by our director, Charles Grant, senior research fellow Camino Mortera-Martinez and research fellow Zach Meyers. Charles, Camino and Zach answer your questions on European integration and defence, the EU’s challenge in upholding the rule of law and what Brexit means for UK financial services and payments regulations.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

In this week's podcast, CER research fellow Luigi Scazzieri speaks to Claudia Major, head of International Security at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and Sophia Besch, CER senior research fellow. They discuss the forthcoming federal election and its implications for German foreign, security and defence policy, including Germany's relationship with the US and China.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

The attempted coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 failed, but today’s Russian regime owes more to the plotters than their democratic opponents. In this CER podcast episode, Ian Bond, our director of foreign policy, speaks to Georgetown University's Angela Stent and Igor Yurgens of Moscow's Institute for Contemporary Development, to discuss the lessons the West should draw from the event.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi

For this week's podcast episode, we have teamed up with the Open Society European Policy Institute (OSEPI). One of our senior research fellows, Camino Mortera-Martinez, recently published a paper about how the EU can fight corruption and uphold the rule of law within its borders. We held an event last month to mark the launch of Camino's report, where Katalin Cseh MEP, Carl Dolan of OSEPI and Transparency International's Michiel van Hulten joined us to discuss how the pandemic has changed the nature of corruption within the EU, and what the EU can do to fight it more generally. In the first half of this podcast, Camino considers what the speakers said at the event and then in the second half Carl joins her for a discussion.

Music by Edward Hipkins

Produced by Rosie Giorgi