Visegrad Insight Podcast

Visegrad Insight Editor Staś Kaleta sits down with Rosa Balfour, Director at Carnegie Europe, during the Europe Future Forum to discuss the rising far-right in Europe, the EU’s changing position in the world and the role enlargement has therein – as well as lots more from the latest Weekly Outlook. 

URL: https://visegradinsight.eu/austrian-far-right-victory-will-energise-central-european-nationalists/

Editor Staś Kaleta interviews Joséphine Staron, Director of Studies and International Relations at Synopia, to explore how France's new government, reliant on far-right support for a majority, may approach the EU's enlargement agenda.

Visegrad Insight Editor-in-Chief Wojciech Przybylski and Editor Staś Kaleta discuss differing opinions on Chinese EVs in central Europe ahead of a crucial vote this week, what the results of regional elections mean for Czechia – and lots more from the latest Weekly Outlook.

url: https://visegradinsight.eu/a-fork-in-the-road-central-europe-split-on-chinese-ev-tariffs/

Visegrad Insight contributing editor Albín Sybera sits down with Marcin Król Fellow Matej Šimalčík and Miroslava Pisklová, Research Fellow at the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, to discuss the bombshell dismissal of Michal Šimečka from his parliamentary post.

He is then joined by Eduard Hulicius, Deputy Minister at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to discuss Czechia’s EU portfolio and this week’s local elections. Both interviews were conducted at Visegrad Insight’s Europe Future Forum in Warsaw this week.

Click here to read more about the portfolios: https://visegradinsight.eu/portfolio-decisions-poland-ready-to-lead-a-new-europe/

Visegrad Insight Editor-in-Chief Wojciech Przybylski and Jacques Delors Centre Deputy Director Thu Nguyen discuss the prospects of EU enlargement over the next five years, ahead of our Europe Future Forum next week. Staś Kaleta then joins to discuss increasingly illiberal practices in Slovakia – and lots more from our latest Weekly Outlook.

Visegrad Insight editors Wojciech Przybylski and Staś Kaleta examine the ways in which autocrats from Poland, Hungary and Slovakia manipulate election processes, how Budapest has been helping to smuggle American equipment into Russia, why a Donald Tusk/Piotr Serafin duo could fill a vacuum in the EU – and lots more from our latest Weekly Outlook.

URL: https://visegradinsight.eu/law-and-justice-election-fraud-what-next-from-cees-civil-society-oppressors/

Wojciech Przybylski and Miles R. Maftean explore how disinformation actors exploit loopholes to fuel their operations and profit financially. They also discuss the European Union's escalating efforts to combat this growing threat, from new regulations under the Digital Services Act to high-stakes battles with tech giants like Meta or Twitter.

Wojciech Przybylski and Visegrad Insight editor Staś Kaleta break down coverage of the Nord Stream drama, as well as the latest on the Kursk incursion, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to CEE, protests in Bratislava – and all the latest outlined in our Weekly Outlook.

Weekly Outlook url: https://visegradinsight.eu/indian-pm-modi-visits-warsaw-and-kyiv-amid-europes-internal-strengthening-efforts/

Visegrad Insight editor-in-chief Wojciech Przybylski and editor Staś Kaleta discuss several strategic narratives at play around the world, relating to shifts in focus from the Middle East to Ukraine, a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz duo, defence plans in Poland and much more – as outlined in our Weekly Outlook.

As the Paris games come to a close, not without some controversies, also read about the most notorious Visegrad olympians in modern history – involved in silent protests, doping scandals, and gender controversies.

Wojciech Przybylski talks with Visegrad Insight editor Staś Kaleta about several of the critical developments shaping CEE politics this week, including mixed responses to an international prisoner exchange, weaponisation of gender controversies at the Olympics, Ukraine’s diplomacy with the Global South and much more – as outlined in our Weekly Outlook.