David Rennie, Washington bureau chief of 'The Economist' and previous 'Lexington', 'Bagehot' and 'Charlemagne' correspondent, talks to Paul Adamson about how Europeans can better understand Donald Trump and how the UK government is seriously misunderstanding the feasibility of a US-UK trade deal.
Jan 09, 2018•16 min
Charles Ries, Vice-President, International, RAND Corporation, talks to Paul Adamson about alternate forms of Brexit and their implications for the UK, the EU and the US.
Dec 14, 2017•15 min
Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director and Practice Head, Europe at the Eurasia Group, talks to Paul Adamson about the major new challenges that will face the UK as it embarks on Phase 2 of the Brexit talks.
Dec 07, 2017•26 min
Peter Mandelson talks to Paul Adamson about the urgency of solving the border issue between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the Brexit talks and how a renewed Remain campaign has to focus its energies.
Nov 21, 2017•16 min
Jason Descamps, founder and managing director of the executive search firm European Affairs Recruitment Specialists, talks to Paul Adamson about the changing world of European Union public affairs.
Nov 14, 2017•16 min
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and director of its Europe program, talks to Paul Adamson about German politics after last month's elections, Germany's influence in the European Union, and its re-assessment of transatlantic relations in the Trump era.
Nov 02, 2017•21 min
Bill Drozdiak, former editor and chief European correspondent of 'The Washington Post', talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West'.
Oct 22, 2017•15 min
Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the UK and leader of the Liberal Democrat party, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book 'How to Stop Brexit'.
Oct 12, 2017•15 min
Tony Connelly, Europe editor of the Irish national broadcaster RTE, talks to Paul Adamson about his new book, 'Brexit and Ireland: the Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response'.
Oct 02, 2017•20 min
Kaja Tael, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the European Union, talks to Paul Adamson about the challenges and opportunities of the current Estonian presidency of the EU.
Sep 20, 2017•14 min
Will Hutton, columnist for The Observer and The Guardian, principal of Hertford College, Oxford and chair of the Big Innovation Centre, talks to Paul Adamson, about the UK economy, the eurozone and the Labour Party's evolving stance on the EU and Brexit.
Sep 13, 2017•18 min
Alberto Alemanno, author of "Lobbying for Change" and co-founder of the Good Lobby, talks to Paul Adamson about citizen's lobbying.
Sep 04, 2017•20 min
Stephen Fidler, UK and Brexit editor of the The Wall Street Journal, talks to Paul Adamson about the current state of the Brexit negotiations as the third round of talks come to an end.
Aug 31, 2017•15 min
Jean-Claude Piris, former head of the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers and acknowledged expert on EU Treaties, talks to Paul Adamson about the EU27’s growing impatience with the UK over the Brexit negotiations.
Aug 17, 2017•13 min
Pierre Vimont, former senior French diplomat and senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, talks to Paul Adamson about the impact of the election of Emmanuel Macron on the future direction of the European Union.
Jul 16, 2017•27 min
Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center, talks to Paul Adamson about post-Brexit public opinion in Europe.
Jul 11, 2017•16 min
Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to prime minister of Tony Blair and chief British government negotiator on Northern Ireland 1997-2007, talks to Paul Adamson about the impact of Brexit on the border arrangements between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the impact of the new political deal between the UK government and the Democratic Unionist Party.
Jul 01, 2017•9 min
Carl Bildt, the former prime minister of Sweden, talks to Paul Adamson about the influence of the UK in the European Union and the future of the EU post Brexit.
Jun 24, 2017•11 min
George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about the new politics and prognostics of Brexit following the 8 June British General Election.
Jun 14, 2017•13 min
The humourist and writer Geoff Meade, who was Europe Editor of the Press Association, talks to Paul Adamson about humour and EU politics.
Jun 11, 2017•20 min
Professor Jonathan Portes, senior fellow at 'UK in a Changing Europe', talks to Paul Adamson about the contribution of EU immigration to the British economy.
Jun 05, 2017•17 min
John Kerr, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, one of the architects of Article 50, talks to Paul Adamson about the conduct of the Article 50 negotiations.
May 14, 2017•23 min
Alex Barker, Brussels bureau chief of the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about the heated negotiations about to start about the UK's EU budget liabilities.
Apr 26, 2017•21 min
Paul Adamson talks to Peter Mandelson about lessons learned from the Remain campaign, the Labour Party's stance on immigration and Theresa May's hardening position on the Brexit negotiations.
Mar 24, 2017•18 min
Alexandra Hall, Research Group Director, Defence, Security and Infrastructure, RAND Europe, talks to Paul Adamson about defence and security after Brexit.
Mar 20, 2017•14 min
Sir Craig Oliver, former head of communications for David Cameron and now Senior Managing Director, Teneo Blue Rubicon, talks to Paul Adamson about the challenges fighting the UK-EU referendum campaign and the lessons learned.
Mar 15, 2017•20 min
Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the European Union, talks to Paul Adamson about Trump, trade and a new transatlantic agenda.
Mar 12, 2017•18 min
Markus Beyrer, Director General of the leading European business association BusinessEurope, talks to Paul Adamson about growth, Brexit, trade and inequality.
Mar 08, 2017•27 min
Emily O'Reilly, the European Ombudsman, talks to Paul Adamson about transparency in decision making and the Brexit negotiations.
Feb 01, 2017•15 min
Jonathan Faull, former head of the European Commission's "UK referendum task force", talks to Paul Adamson about the UK's negotiation for a new settlement in its EU membership ahead of the referendum.
Jan 23, 2017•30 min