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Episode 62: China’s Economic Policy and its Consequences for Europe with Joerg Wuttke
While China has managed a fast economic recovery after the pandemic, Beijing has laid out plans for its future economic policies that signal an inward turn. For instance, the Fourteenth Five-year...
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Episode 61: After the End of History: What Comes Next? With Mathilde Fasting
Few books have had such an influence as Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man from 1992: it profoundly shaped the way that many people in the West thought about the period that...
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Episode 60: The Strange Death of European Union Liberalism? With Hans Kundnani
What ideas are now powering the European Union? For a long time, Europe and the European project confidently embodied the values of liberal universalism and cultural pluralism. That zeitgeist...
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Episode 59: Let’s Talk about Trade and Tech with Lucian Cernat
Trade and Technology are intimately connected. Cloud computing, Internet of Things, blockchain, 3D printing, remote sensors, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, telematics, robotics, or...
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Episode 58: The Culture of Freedom of Speech Online with Nicklas Berild Lundblad
In this episode, Fredrik Erixon and Nicklas Berild Lundblad discuss the culture of freedom of speech online and how that culture gets strong impulses by governments that are pushing regulations that...
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Episode 57: Digital Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region with Stephanie Honey
With its dynamic Internet economy and its mobile-first consumer culture, the Asia-Pacific region is now the most dynamic digital region in the world. But countries in the Asia-Pacific take different...
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Episode 56: Globalisation isn’t Dying – it’s Changing: How the Digital Economy is Re-shaping Globalisation with Erik van der Marel
Globalisation isn’t dying, said Erik van der Marel in an important paper last year as everyone feared the Covid-19 crisis would throw us all into protectionism. Globalisation is changing – and...
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Episode 55: The Impact of Nord Stream 2 on Europe with Anders Åslund
Work to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has now re-started, but there are still fundamental concerns about this energy project and its consequences for Europe. How will it impact gas supply in...
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Episode 54: Digitalising Europe – Seizing the Opportunities, Knocking Down the Challenges with Henna Virkkunen
Digitalisation and the growth of new technologies give us many new opportunities to improve society – from boosting economic productivity to delivering better care in hospitals and nursing homes....
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Episode 53: Are Online Civil Liberties Threatened? With Jacob Mchangama
Social media and other platforms are under growing pressure to moderate and take down content – and big platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are increasingly accused of censoring political...