Podcast Episodes

NATO and Europe first: Britain’s new Strategic Defence Review

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general at the Royal United Services Institute and former Labour government advisor, for an Emergency Room episode dissecting th…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Nawrocki’s win: What Poland’s populist president means for Europe

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Piotr Buras, head of ECFR’s Warsaw office, for a 15-minute rapid-response episode dissecting the outcome of Poland’s presidential election. Yesterday, right-wing…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Mobilising Europe: The case for a European Preparedness Act

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Tiago Antunes, ECFR associate senior fellow at and former Portuguese secretary of state for European affairs; and Nicu Popescu, ECFR distinguished policy fellow a…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Crisis and collapse: Europe’s intervention in Gaza

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Julien Barnes-Dacey, ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme director, for an emergency room episode diving into the dire situation in Gaza. After the March…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Security ties and political trade-offs: Inside the EU-UK deal

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Camille Grand, former assistant secretary general at NATO and ECFR distinguished policy fellow, and Ivan Rogers, formerly Britain’s permanent representative to th…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Liberal tides, populist currents: Elections in Poland and Romania

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Piotr Buras, head of ECFR’s Warsaw office, for an emergency room episode dissecting Sunday’s pivotal elections in Poland and Romania. Their discussion, which was …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Reset or compromise? Taking stock of the EU-UK summit

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Mij Rahman, managing director for Europe at Eurasia Group and ECFR council member, for an emergency room episode dissecting the long-awaited EU-UK summit. 

While …

Published on 4 months ago

Trump’s new Europe: From ally to adversary

Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin, head of ECFR’s Paris office and senior policy fellow, to discuss how President Donald Trump’s return to the White House could reshape Europe’s political landscape. …

Published on 4 months ago

Truce or trap: Decoding the US-China trade pause

Far from a grand bargain, the US-China trade deal rolls back President Donald Trump’s post-Liberation Day tariff spiral—which peaked at 145%—to pre-April levels. This will avert empty US shelves, but…

Published on 4 months ago

Border geopolitics: India and Pakistan revisited

Over the weekend, India and Pakistan came closer to all-out war than perhaps at any point in the past 20 to 25 years as missiles flew back and forth across the border. At the point of this podcast re…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago