🎙Dermot is joined by Simon Gergely Császár, a political advisor working for the European Green Party, to speak about the situation in Hungary.  

🆘 Topics covered: 

✅ The feeling in Hungary towards Orbán's leadership 

✅ Fidesz splitting from the EPP  

✅ Hungary's alliance with Poland 

✅ Media freedom  

➡️ For more information about the situation on Hungary, check out: ​Gábor Scheiring's The Retreat of Liberal Democracy - Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary.

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🎙Dermot and Paco chat about what's happened across the EU over the last 7 days, focusing on: 

✅ Orban's Fidesz leaving the EPP 

✅ AfD becoming the target of surveillance by the BfV  

✅ And, of course, International Women's Day!

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🌹Giorgia and Paco talk with Alessandra Moretti, Italian MEP of the Democratic Party from the S&D group about gender equality. 

➡️ Moretti is in the Commission for Women and Fair Opportunity. We discussed:

✅ Gender pay gap

✅ Women in STEM

✅ Gender representation in politics

✅ Pink quotas

🎙On today's podcast, Dermot and Paco talk about: 

✅ the EU's policy surrounding the digitalisation of the justice system across Europe;  

✅ the proposed vaccine passports;

✅ the introduction of free female sanitary products in France.

🏚🏗🏡 This week Christian Hochgrebe, Member of the Berlin Parliament for the Social Democratic Party joins Dermot to discuss the ongoing housing crisis.

🎙Dermot, Paco and Enric speak about:  

✅ the freedom of expression, focusing on the recent case of Pablo Hasèl;  

✅ police brutality in Europe;  

✅ and the EU's recently passed Recovery and Resilience Facility (Recovery Fund).

🇵🇱Dermot was lucky enough to be joined by Iwona Reichardt to speak about abortion in Poland, as well as the other ways in which women's rights and LGBTI rights are being attacked in the country.   Iwona is deputy Editor-in-Chief of an English language magazine "New Eastern Europe" and co-founder of "FemGlobal", a new association in Poland that gathers female professionals employed in the foreign policy area and is co-author of the book "Will women save the world. Feminist foreign policy" (2020).

🌹Iwona is deputy Editor-in-Chief of an English language magazine "New Eastern Europe" and co-founder of "FemGlobal", a new association in Poland that gathers female professionals employed in the foreign policy area and is co-author of the book "Will women save the world. Feminist foreign policy" (2020).

🎙Today Dermot and Paco are joined in their Monday chat about European politics by Enric. Topic discussed: 

✅ Catalan Elections of February 14th 

✅ Italian government - a few bad ministers and the lack of gender equality 

✅ Hungary - the last independent radio was closed, and new law posing limits to collective bargain 

✅ Myanmar - The crisis continues 

✅ Climate crisis - The Himalayan glacier melting and a fine to France for not having respected the Paris parameters.

🇬🇧❌🇪🇺Hear about Brexit from the people it is affecting!!

✅ How are British people living in the EU coping?

✅ How do Brits at home feel about Brexit now that the real outcomes are beginning to be felt? 

🎙Join us as we chat about these topics and more in the latest edition of the Arbury Road podcast, where we are joined by guests that are experiencing the split first hand!

🎙Join the Arbury Road team for Episode 1 of our new podcast series. 

👤Today we discuss all things welfare with PhD student at Lund University, Katren Rogers.