College of Europe Podcast (Bruges)

CoEnnect Digital Policy Talks: Discussing disinformation, threats online, and digital regulation with MEP Markéta Gregorová

CoEnnect Digital Society, represented by Markéta Šonková (IRD), recently interviewed MEP Markéta Gregorová (CZ, Piráti, Greens/European Free Alliance). They spoke about disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda online, DSA, AI, deepfakes, and the resilience of our societies vis a vis online threats. Thank you for listening, and stay tuned for more exciting digital policy content to come!

Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.

CoEnnect Digital Policy Talks: Discussing online regulation, innovation, and digital policies with Werner Stengg

CoEnnect Digital Society, represented by Markéta Šonková (IRD), recently interviewed Werner Stengg from the Cabinet of the European Commission's Executive Vice-President, Margrethe Vestager. They spoke about online regulation, the cost of policy leadership in the digital domain, transatlantic partnerships, and more. Thank you for listening, and stay tuned for more exciting digital policy content to come!

This episode is produced by the CoEnnect Digital student society. Any opinion presented in this podcast episode does not necessarily represent a position of the College of Europe.

Publications at the College of Europe #13 – Professor Dermot Hodson

In this episode, our visiting professor Dermot Hodson talks about his new book Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It, published by Yale University Press on 10 October 2023.

Ce que l’Europe fait aux « citoyens » ordinaires. Goûts et dégoûts de l'Europe politique (Marine de Lasalle et Lancelot Veenendaal)

Ecoutez le nouvel épisode du podcast de la série Global Europe in a real new millenium !

Quel est le rapport des "citoyens ordinaires" à l’Europe ? A quoi pensent-ils ou elles quand on parle d’Europe ? Et qu'est-ce qu'évoque ce mot "Europe" pour eux ou elles ? A l'aube des élections européennes, voici autant de questions clés que Marine de Lasalle aborde dans cette discussion.

Marine de Lassalle est professeure de sociologie politique à Sciences Po Strasbourg et directrice du laboratoire « Sociétés, acteurs et gouvernement en Europe » (SAGE, CNRS / Université de Strasbourg). Ses travaux de recherche portent sur les perceptions de l’Europe, sur la gouvernance de l’Union européenne et sur la compétence politique.

Sa réflexion s’appuie notamment sur les résultats d’une vaste enquête menées auprès d’électeurs européens et présentés dans son livre, publié en 2022, "Faire parler d'Europe. Voies et formats des rapports institués au politique". Le propos de Marine de Lasalle et suivie d’une discussion avec Lancelot Veenendaal, alumni de la promotion David Sassoli et aujourd'hui Assistant académique du programme d'Etudes Générales européennes.

Cet épisode est produit dans le cadre du cycle de conférences "Global Europe in the real new millennium" organisée par le Programme d'études générales européennes du Collège d'Europe et dirigée par Didier Georgakakis.

Profitez de la conversation et n'oubliez pas de vous inscrire pour écouter notre prochain épisode.

Europe in love - Insights from the study of Euro-couples (Juan Diez Medrano & Ruby Gropas )

Welcome on our new podcast episode of the series Globale Europe in a real new millenium !

Have you ever wondered what it means to be in a binational couples? In this episode, Juan Diez Medrano presents the main results of his book "Europe in Love. Binational Couples and Cosmopolitan Society" published in 2020. Professor Ruby Gropas, visiting professor at the College is exchanging with him on what sociology can teach us about this type of relationships and what it can mean for the future of Europe and European integration.

This episode is produced in the framework of the three-years conference series Global Europe in the real new millennium" organised by the European General studies Programme of the College of Europe and led by Didier Georgakakis.

Enjoy the conversation and remember to subscribe to listen to our upcoming episode. 

Publications at the College of Europe #12 - Professor Olivier Costa

In April 2023, we are launching the second round of our Social Media Campaign to put the research and publications at the College of Europe in the spotlight! The College is gathering top researchers from around the world and Europe, so let’s focus on what they are doing and what their fields of research are.

Every week we will highlight a publication from our (visiting) professors or academic assistants. We will also release podcast episodes focusing on their research.

This week listen to Prof. Olivier Costa, Director of the European Political & Governance Studies department. He will talk about his publication, released with Palgrave Studies European Union Politics, on the EU Political System after the 2019 European Elections

To read the article:

Costa, Olivier, and Steven Van Hecke, eds. The EU Political System after the 2019 European Elections. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 

Publications at the College of Europe #11 - Iana Maisuradze

In April 2023, we are launching the second round of our Social Media Campaign to put the research and publications at the College of Europe in the spotlight! The College is gathering top researchers from around the world and Europe, so let’s focus on what they are doing and what their fields of research are.

Every week we will highlight a publication from our (visiting) professors or academic assistants. We will also release podcast episodes focusing on their research.

This week listen to Iana Maisuradze, academic assistant in the MATA department talk about the publication she released with EPC "Europe in the world in 2023: Learning the language of power?".

To read the article:

Publications at the College of Europe #10 - Prof. Sieglinde Gstöhl & Prof. Simon Schunz

In April 2023, we are launching the second round of our Social Media Campaign to put the research and publications at the College of Europe in the spotlight! The College is gathering top researchers from around the world and Europe, so let’s focus on what they are doing and what their fields of research are.

Every week we will highlight a publication from our (visiting) professors or academic assistants. We will also release podcast episodes focusing on their research.

This week, Professors Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz give you an overview of their book on the External Action Service of the European Union: Concepts, Approaches, Theories and they also explain their article in Foreign Policy Analysis on "Insights for Foreign Policy Analysis from European Union External Action Studies".

Check out the publications:

Publications at the College of Europe #9 - Prof. David Phinnemore

In April 2023, we are launching the second round of our Social Media Campaign to put the research and publications at the College of Europe in the spotlight! The College is gathering top researchers from around the world and Europe, so let’s focus on what they are doing and what their fields of research are.

Every week we will highlight a publication from our (visiting) professors or academic assistants. We will also release podcast episodes focusing on their research.

David Phinnemore is opening the ball for this month’s campaign. He is explaining his research on the implementation of the protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland as a central element of EU/Brexit negotiation.

Emergency Europe: patterns & prospects (Jonathan White & Christopher Bickerton)

The European General Studies is welcoming you on its conference part of its conference series "Global Europe in the real new millennium. The EG interdisciplinary dialogue on European integration in the post-pandemic world".

For this third episode, you will listen here to a discussion between Jonathan WHITE, Professor of Politics at LSE, presents and discuss his work with Christopher BICKERTON, Professor of Modern European Politics at Cambridge and visiting Professor at the College. They exchange views on the topic: "Emergency Europe: patterns and prospects" & present the main results from white’s book “Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union” (2019). They will also reflect on what they entail in light of contemporary developments and the post-pandemic world. 

Enjoy the conversation and see you soon for some new episode! 

Diplomatie Tranquille et représentation plurielle (Laurence Badel et Federica Mogherini)

Le programme d'études européennes générales vous accueille pour un nouvel épisode de son cycle de conférence "Global Europe in the new real millenium", un cycle de conférence de trois ans mis en place par Didier Georgakakis, coordinateur du programme, où des intellectuels européens viennent présenter leur idées et nous éclairer sur le futur de l'Europe dans une ère post-Covid. Pour ce second épisode, nous avons accueilli deux invitées de choix : Laurence Badel, Professeure d'histoire à Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne et Federica Mogherini, rectrice du Collège d'Europe.

Pendant cette conversation intitulée "Diplomatie Tranquille et représentation plurielle", Laurence Badel, autrice d'un livre remarqué et remarquable sur les diplomatie européenne. nous éclairera sur cette histoire longue de la diplomatie en Europe et nous donnera un regard sur son état actuelle. Federica Mogherini nous apportera de son côté sa vision de praticienne de haut niveau à la fois comme ancienne ministre des affaires étrangères en Italie et comme Haut représentante et vice Présidente de la Commission.

Vous pouvez retrouver les autres épisodes en lien avec ce cycle de conférence sur notre chaîne.

The empire that never was. A global History perspective on European integration.

For this first episode, we will listen to a conference given by the European General Studies Programme in the framework of their Conference Series "Global Europe in the Real New Millenium. The EG interdisciplinary dialogue on European integration in the post-pandemic world". This conference series was set up by Prof. Didier Georgakakis, the European General Studies coordinator at the College of Europe.

The aim of the conference series is to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue with leading intellectuals on the future of European societies and potential changes currently occurring. Today, the global pandemic we have just experienced seems to represent a turning point that has been described as the new real millennium. The profound consequences of the pandemic, after a series of successive crises in the years 2000-2010, may represent a major turning point for European integration. 

In this talk, Prof. Patrick Pasture, a History professor at KU Leuven & Prof. Wolfram Kaiser, Visiting professor at the College of Europe, will analyse what can history teach us about the current dynamics and potential future implications for European integration. The conference was entitled: “The empire that never was. A Global History perspective on European integration”.

Publication at the College of Europe #8

Professeur Didier Georgakakis parle de deux numéros de la Revue Française d'Administrations Publique sur les transformation du champ administratif européen entre 2015 et 2021. Il explique la démarche de ces deux numéros ainsi que différents articles qui ont été publié au sein de ces numéros.

Réference :

Publications at the College of Europe #7

Listen Ediz Topcuoglu talk about his paper co-written with Saliah Bora on EU space Programmes and the listen we can learn from them.

Publications at the College of Europe #6

Jeanne Mouton, Academic Assistant in the ECO department talks about her research field: law & economics of the private enforcement of competition in digital markets. She also gives an explanation of her different publications.

MOUTON, Jeanne      Privacy and competition law: Is there a room for private enforcement?      2020    Concurrences Paper

MOUTON Jeanne       Private enforcement of privacy breaches from Big Tech Companies under the GDPR, Competition law provisions and the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive: substitutable or complementary legal grounds? 13    2021    IBCI      Chapter in a book following a conference

MOUTON Jeanne       Psychological biases of users of social networking platforms and innovation decision-making processes             2022    ESKA   Chapter in a book following a conference

MOUTON Jeanne, REED Lewis            Following the Google Shopping Judgment, Should We Expect a Private Enforcement Action?             2022    Oxford Academic        Paper

To be published soon (mentioned in the podcast): MOUTON Jeanne    The challenges for private enforcement of anticompetitive conducts in digital markets           2022    YARS publication, following a conference with the Jean Monet Network of enforcement of EU law, co-organised with the University of Warsaw and the University of Bocconi 

Publications at the College of Europe #5

Co-written with Jeanne Mouton, listen to Lewis Reed talk about their article on "Following the Google Shopping Judgment, Should We Expect a Private Enforcement Action?".

Publications at the College of Europe #4

For the third day of our publications and research campaign, we will meet the Academic Assistants of the International Relations and Diplomacy Studies. Discover first the episode of Zane Šime on "Scoping the Ambassadorial Potential of the EU’s Global Gateway".

Publications at the College of Europe #3

Célia Challet, Academic Assistant in the Law department, is talking about her articles co-written with Yuliya Miadzvetskaya on "Are EU restrictive measures really targeted, temporary and preventive? The case of Belarus." This article explores how the nature and type of EU restrictive measures, initially conceived as targeted, preventive and temporary measures, have evolved considerably since the past three decades.

Publications at the College of Europe #2

For the second episode of the series on publications and research, we met with Professor Sasha Garben who explained everything there is to know on the project of the Oxford encyclopedia of EU Law.

Publications at the College of Europe #1

In this new podcast series, the College of Europe highlights the research and publications of its Professors and its Academic Assistants.

We start the week with our Academic Assistant Thibault Besnier talking about his research paper on EU Energy Policies.

MATA 5-year anniversary - Discussion with US Ambassador to the EU Mark Gitenstein

Our joint Master's degree programme in Transatlantic Affairs with the Fletcher School (MATA) celebrated its 5 year in 2022. To mark this occasion, the College organised an event with Ambassador Mark Gitenstein.

This episode is divided in two parts. A first one in which the MATA students of the academic year 2022-2023 discuss the view of the US/EU relationship and a second part that consists of the discussion the students had with Ambassasdor Mark Gitenstein on the day of the event.

If you want to know more about what happen during this event, you can watch the whole event here.

If you are interested in applying to MATA, find all the information here.

Hope you will enjoy this discussion.

Thank you to our students : Samy Vincent, Maria Balasch Sola, Sara Fattori, Giovanni Medici Tornaquinci, Cecilia Perez Weigel, Veronika Fuhrmann, Gauthier Parthon de Von.

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This is the final episode of this year Library podcast.

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This episode, takes place on ‘de Vesten’. 

“Vesten” is the Flemish name for ramparts. It is a 4,9 miles long walk on the old foundations of the city.

On your walk or bike ride you will discover some of the original gates that protected the city in the Middle Ages.

Enjoy the 3000 trees and shrubs and the canal, which makes it a very green and peaceful walk undisturbed by cars.

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This episode takes place at 'het Minnewaterpark' or le parc du Lac d'amour in French, within you'll find a large lake,

Take picture and let you carry away by this very romantic place !

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This fourth episode takes place at "het begijnhof" or beguinage. A beguinage was not a monastery, but a place where women lived together until the 20th century. Today it is the home for the Benedictine sisters and 44 single women. So it is still a place of silence and contemplation. 

We advise you to go on a sunny Spring day, when the daffodils bloom.

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This third episode is about the statue of Guido Gezelle. A Flemish poet from the 19th century. We hope that his love for nature and 'Spielerei' of words will swirl you around like a leaf in the wind.

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

This second episode takes place at ‘het Koningin Astridpark’, which is situated behind Garenmarkt (a College residence). They changed the name of this small botanical garden or ‘botanieken hof’ to Astridpark as a tribute to a beloved Belgian queen Astrid, who died age 30 (1935) in a tragical car accident. 

Library Podcast - Visit Bruges through Poems

Discover Bruges in a different way, through poetry. We have chosen 7 locations and accorded them with English, French or Dutch poems.

If you love poetry, you can find more poems on our citizens windows during our poetry month in February.

The first episode takes place at the garden of the Groeninge museum, the museum and garden are located next to the College building at Dijver