Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful

Alexander Stubb wants to become the next president of the EU Commission. But does he have what it takes to tackle rising populism and bring together a deeply divided continent? He spoke to DW's Conflict Zone.

Is Bosnia slipping backwards into war? Mladen Ivanic, Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he is "not too optimistic".

The populist pitch of Italy's Five Star Movement led it to electoral success and coalition government with the far-right League party. Fabio Castaldo, a European Parliament Vice President and Five Star MEP, tells Conflict Zone his party "will be the third way" in Europe.

Michel Friedman interviews Karin Kneissl, Austrian Foreign Minister.

Pro-democracy activists say China is trying to silence dissent in Hong Kong. DW's Conflict Zone asks Horace Cheung, vice-chairman of the largest pro-Beijing party in the territory, whether he is willing to allow China to curtail rights.

President Juan Manuel Santos has gained international plaudits for his efforts to end the long-running insurgency in Colombia. But with rising violence, low public support for his peace plan and cocaine production at a record high, does he deserve his Nobel Peace Prize?

Can the EU convince its member states that the migration agreement is a fair deal? Michel Friedman meets the Bulgarian Foreign Minister.

Are the differences between Turkey and the EU becoming impossible to reconcile? Tim Sebastian meets the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Twenty years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit looms large over the fragile peace in Northern Ireland. Tim Sebastian meets former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern on Conflict Zone. (First aired on April 18 2018.)

As the British government squabbles over its approach to Brexit, Tim Sebastian puts some hard questions to the conservative Member of Parliament, Nicky Morgan.