Reset by Shared Ground

In this seventh episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Natalia Węgrzyn speaks with Francisco Isetta, Director of Programs at the FREE Foundation.

They discuss how Argentina can turn its abundant natural resources into lasting prosperity, and why the promise of investment, jobs and economic growth raises important questions about environmental protection, local benefits and political accountability.

Drawing on Shared Ground’s preliminary research with La Libertad Avanza and PRO voters across Buenos Aires, Patagonia and north-western Argentina, the episode explores how right-of-centre audiences perceive development and environmental protection, why concern for nature does not necessarily translate into support for environmental activism, and what makes resource extraction a fair deal for local communities.

A grounded discussion on how Argentina can reconcile economic development with the protection of water, land and local livelihoods, and why clear rules, credible institutions and community involvement are essential to ensuring that natural wealth delivers lasting and broadly shared prosperity.

In this episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Thibault Muzergues speaks with Francesco Galietti, CEO and co-Founder of Policy Sonar and author of Between Transition and Energy Security: Italy at the Crossroads.

They discuss how Europe’s transition towards renewable energy is reshaping the geopolitics of energy security, and why reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels does not automatically translate into greater strategic sovereignty.

The episode explores the challenges of building a reliable renewable-heavy energy system, the role of nuclear energy as a potential complement to renewables, and the need to reconcile decarbonisation with affordable energy, industrial competitiveness and public consent.

A grounded discussion on how Europe can pursue the energy transition while strengthening resilience, reducing external vulnerabilities and preserving the political and economic foundations needed to make decarbonisation durable.

In this fifth episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Natalia Węgrzyn speaks with Bruno Jeanbart, Vice President of OpinionWay, and Olga Poluektova, Research Lead at Shared Ground.

They discuss what New Right voters across Europe really think about climate change and environmental policies, and why the common image of these audiences as simply climate sceptical often fails to capture the complexity of their attitudes.

The episode explores how concerns about costs, national sovereignty, local communities, institutional trust and political identity shape support for environmental action, as well as the limits of conventional opinion surveys and the challenge of translating audience insights into policies that people can recognise as fair, credible and relevant to their lives.

A grounded discussion, building on Shared Ground’s report Rethinking Climate Politics: Understanding Europe’s New Right Voters to Design Climate Policies That Work for All, on how environmental policy can move beyond political polarisation and build broader, more durable legitimacy across Europe.

In this fourth episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Thibault Muzergues speaks with Francesco Giubilei, President of Nazione Futura, publisher, author, and contributor to Ecologia Umanista: Manifesto per un conservatorismo verde.

They discuss why the Italian right needs its own credible environmental agenda and how conservatives can move beyond opposition to the Green Deal by developing a positive vision rooted in responsibility, energy security, national identity, innovation, and the protection of future generations.

The conversation explores some of the manifesto’s central themes, including the return of nuclear energy in Italy, the reconciliation of environmental transition with historic and architectural heritage, and the challenge of translating a broad intellectual project into concrete policies and government action.

A grounded discussion on how an Italian manifesto for humanist ecology could contribute to a wider European conservative environmental agenda without losing the national, local, and cultural roots that make it credible.

In this third episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Natalia Węgrzyn speaks with Nicola Bilotta, Economist Fellow at GLOBSEC, and Tomáš Prouza, President of the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism.

They discuss the future of the Czech automotive industry, one of the country’s main economic strengths, and the technological, industrial and political choices it faces as Europe moves towards electric vehicles.

The episode explores why the automotive transition should not be reduced to an ideological debate between combustion engines and electric cars, but understood as a question of competitiveness, jobs, innovation, energy costs, public trust and industrial resilience.

A grounded discussion, building on Shared Ground and GLOBSEC’s report Building Competitiveness through Transition: The Case of the Czech Automotive Sector, on how Czechia can adapt to changing markets, Chinese competition and EU regulation while keeping workers, suppliers and communities on board.

In this second episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Thibault Muzergues speaks with Nicola Procaccini, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chair of the ECR Group.

They discuss the relationship between European conservatives and environmental policy, from local politics in Terracina to the debates surrounding the European Green Deal in Brussels.

The episode explores why conservative ecology should not be reduced to opposition or resistance, but understood as a positive vision rooted in conservation, territorial realities, affordability, democratic consent, and respect for local communities.

A grounded discussion with the author of L’ecologia dei conservatori on how conservatives can rebuild credibility on environmental issues by moving beyond technocratic regulation and developing a practical ecological agenda that starts from people’s lives.

In this first episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Natalia Węgrzyn speaks with Florian Wagner, Executive Director of heimatwurzeln.

They unpack Shared Ground’s research on AfD voters in Germany and what it reveals about trust, fairness, and political legitimacy in climate policy.

The conversation explores why climate scepticism is often less about rejecting environment importance than about mistrust, political distance, and the feeling that current policies do not reflect people’s realities.

A grounded discussion on how climate policy should become more credible, practical, and socially rooted.

In this introductory episode of Reset by Shared Ground, Natalia Węgrzyn, Executive Director, and Thibault Muzergues, Political Director, introduce the ambition behind the podcast: reconnecting ecology with people’s real concerns, lived experiences, and political realities.

A first conversation to set the tone for grounded, practical, and society-focused discussions on the environment.