Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

Richard Gowan, ECFR Associate Fellow and author of Chapter 6, believes that there were several crises the EU had to face in 2014. How to deal with the increased migration from African countries was the most challenging one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francois Godement, director of ECFR’s China and Asia Programme, talks about the expansion of relations between the EU and Asia in 2014 through the EU’s confirmation of a free trade pact negotiation with Japan, and an agreement on joint action involving global security, along with the participation in peacekeeping efforts with South Korea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susi Dennison, Senior Policy Fellow and expert on the MENA region, explains the EU's performance in the Middle East and North Africa in 2014, and the need for a new strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vessela Tcherneva, ECFR's director of the Wider Europe programme, gives her analysis on the EU's performance upon dealing with the western Balkans in 2014 and discusses which challenges the relations with Turkey and Bosnia will pose this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas Wright, author of Chapter 2 from the European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015, talks about US-EU relations last year and their convergence towards the end of the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia's annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Eastern Ukraine turned EU-Russia relations from problematic into an urgent strategic problem. Kadri Liik, ECFR senior policy fellow and author of the 1st chapter called Russia from our European foreign policy publication Scorecard 2015, speaks about last year's challenges and what the EU could have done better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.